Mitakuye Oyasin — we are all related…
her favourite remembering her phil…
fly high dear lady fly high – vaya con dios – she now lives with the angels…
“Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to new understanding
With the passing whisper of their wisdom.
Some people make the sky
More beautiful to gaze upon.
They stay in our lives for awhile,
Leave footprints on our hearts
And we are never, ever the same.”
thanks jen…
What I am doing this afternoon is listening and watching – remembering that although I walk through many paths – they all lead to the same place
there are seven videos here – one for each direction – east-west-north+south. above-below + inward…Aho – Mitakuye Oyasin – We Are All Related!!!
HO!!!
ms makeba has been a hero to me most of my life – she being a most phenomenal woman and an inspiration. fly high ms makeba fly high – know you will be missed.
ROME (AP) Miriam Makeba, the South African singer known to fans worldwide as “Mama Africa” who became an international symbol of the anti-apartheid struggle, died early Monday after performing a concert in southern Italy, a hospital said. She was 76.
An emergency room official at the Pineta Grande Clinic, a private facility in Castel Volturno, said the singer died after being brought there. Italy’s ANSA news agency reported that Makeba may suffered a heart attack at the end of the concert for an Italian journalist threatened by the Naples-area Mafia.
Makeba, often called “Mama Africa” and “the Empress of African Song,” left South Africa in 1959. She tried to return in 1960 for the funeral of her mother, but her passport was revoked and she was not allowed to enter the country.
She lived in exile for 31 years in the United States, France, Guinea in West Africa and Belgium before having an emotional homecoming in Johannesburg in 1990, when many long-exiled South Africans returned under reforms instituted by then-President F.W. de Klerk. “I never understood why I couldn’t come home,” Ms. Makeba said upon her return. “I never committed any crime.”
In 1976, Makeba made speech before the United Nations denouncing the policy of apartheid, or racial segregation. After that, South Africa’s government-run radio and television refused to broadcast her songs until 1989.
Entertainer Steve Allen helped launch her career in the United States and she often toured with singer Harry Belafonte during the 1960s. In 1987 she performed with singer Paul Simon on his “Graceland” concert tour.
i/we love you cw – be safe and well – come back to us soon. i wish you love and peaceful healing. remember hydrate and breathing most essential. i am here if/when you need to communicate. may you always walk in peace – love and beauty…
blessings – palestar
reasons that were not against the other candidate but reasons we were for this man we elected – for hope – for change – to breath again – hopefully positive change – we hope and we pray…
