Hello From Dallas Texas… another beautiful day… we’re about ready to leave the hotel and go to soundcheck… I’m watching the speeches of Sarah Palin and John McCain… and I just wanted to pass them along to you so you could watch them and see what you think.

I hope you’re having a great day.

Thanks for watching these and taking the time to just look at both sides of this election…

Sarah Palin’s RNC speech

John McCain’s RNC speech

I’m thinking a lot about this election these days because it’s such an important time and i know how much we all want things to just get better.
It’s kind of overwhelming isn’t it? War… Lack of Jobs… Gas prices… Climate Change… Devastating Storms… Pollution… Overflowing Land Fills… Overpopulation… Lack of Food and Drinking Water… Fear of terrorism… Distrust of Politicians… Anger… Racism… Ignorance… Fear…
phew…

I feel like making a list to counteract that one...
Friendship… Love… Family… Hope… Music… Art… Sports… Plumbing… Clothing… The Postal Service (the actual postal service that delivers mail all around the world with an unbelievably high success rate for unbelievably low prices… not the band… but, yeah… now that i think of it… the band too)… Cell Phones… The Internet… Communication… Language!!!… Movies… Eyesight… All the senses… Dreams… Nature… Cities… Recycling… Sustainable Farming… Responsibility… Honor… Nobility… Forgiveness… ETC…

I think we just need to take a deep breath… get informed about what we can do as individuals… and also make the best decision about who to vote for in this next election. What we DON’T need is any kind of divisive or angry or defensive energy… that is my least favorite part of politics… such a distraction from the issues… we need UNITY and UNDERSTANDING and OPEN-MINDED-NESS…

Here’s another blog to bookmark… my friends in New York seek out inspiring things and post them here…

http://www.superforest.org/

I love you guys… happy day.
jrc

hey everyone… happy daytime… or night time… or whatever…
hi.

what a beautiful day it is in los angeles… sunshine… blue skies… etc…

i just wanted to make a post with a link to Barack Obama’s speech from the DNC last week… it was an amazing speech, and I think that everyone in America should watch it regardless of what political party they “belong” to…

I’m looking forward to seeing what John McCain has to say in his upcoming speeches...
honestly, i don’t consider myself a democrat or a republican… honestly I don’t even like to think of myself as an “American"… which is not to say that I don’t love this country… especially the amazing ideas that it was founded on… but I just consider myself a human being who was lucky enough to be born on planet earth on part of this continent known as The United States of America with all of its beautiful and also complicated and also ugly and also noble and wonderful (etc) history… Personally, because I get to travel all around the world, and see how similar people are in different countries, I just wish there was more of a spirit of the United Countries of the World, and not so much divided interests in just our individual countries… but that’s a whole other issue…

getting back to this election… i just want to help elect whichever candidate I believe is going to do the most amount of good for the most amount people, and also put this country back in good standing with the rest of the world… I know we all want that… so let’s just keep watching the speeches, and researching the candidates… it just takes a little time… and then we’ll know… and then we’ll choose…

Please check out Barack’s inspirational speech:

BARACK OBAMA DNC SPEECH

and also… here are some interesting photos from the protests at the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis… did anybody see any news coverage of protests from the RNC? lemme know what where you saw it… and what it was like… thanks...
http://www.motherjones.com/:



PEACE!!!
jrc