Heartfelt and inspired greetings.
Please go here to see, hear, and experience Eddie Vedder sing "No More": http://think.mtv.com/044FDFFFF0002D79C00170098DB30/. This is the first of two songs that I was deeply privileged to hear Eddie Vedder sing this past Friday night at the end of an extraordinary event at the First Baptist Church in downtown Portland. It was just Eddie Vedder and his acoustic guitar in this big old church filled to the brim with actors and artists, activists and poets, rebels and rabble-rousers, visionaries and peacemakers - and more! - and of all ages... And the performance was electrifying, amazing, extraordinary!
And, yet, this song is about so much more than the musician who wrote it or the words it speaks. There is the profound message of a very old story and a much deeper truth here which moves directly into the heart. Eddie wept after singing this song. Many wept. The reasons for the tears are greater than what words can speak to. See for yourself. See with your hearts...*
I just found this video of Eddie Vedder singing "No More", but to a much, much larger crowd than what any church could hold. Also included are clips offering glimpses into the documentary "Body of War" and Tomas Young, the young veteran whose story inspired this song and the film. This is very, very powerful stuff - the kind that can break any heart open ... and, in doing so, potentially energize more and more to seek to discover whatever our unique way is to be an increasing force of heart-knowledge, spiritual awareness, soul-inspired compassion and wisdom, action and peace in the world.
What comes to mind is the saying that it isn't what happens to us that matters as much as how it is that we chose to respond to the events of our lives. May Tomas Young inspire more and more of us to do our part, whatever that may be...
Peace ~ Molly
"No flag is large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people."
~ Howard Zinn
(This is one of the 18 bumper stickers I have on my van.)
*Thank you to my soulsister Wendy Bjornson for her encouragement
and inspiration to seek to see more and more deeply
with my heart.
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