Artytou's story about the collaboration of Why?
We had a tune kicking about for a few months, but when we read one of Nigels postings on 'Anubis Spire' we found it deeply touching like poetry, hence we found our words and with Nigels kind permission the result was born. It was destined. The words describe itself.
'Dominoes' Maria says. If it can make a difference somewhere, It'll make a difference somewhere else.
WHY?
lyrics by, N.Potter
music by, Artytou
I guess what always strikes me is that because something is not MY problem, that it is not a problem.
Unfortunately the human race does not always seem to share that view :)
We can speak of Aborignes, The Native American, or the Tibetan.
Whose family are they?
They are OURS.
The separateness has been DRUMMED into us.
We are not separate.
We are in all senses one.
Any other notion leads to elitism, the chosen ones, and racism, fascism.
At the end of the day, we make one simple choice.
Love and peace or hate and war.
Peace follows love, war follows hate.
Following on from these thoughts is also our relationship with the Earth.
Again we have been TAUGHT that the Earth is ours to take what we desire to excess every single day.
Part of this conditioning is within our culture, part within our religions and part, most definately, within our self interested greed as grown and fed by raging consumerism of business.
We see animals as game, zoo fodder.
We see nature as wasted space.
Yet, in all our hearts we have this NEED to feel nature around us.
Some, more as time goes by, have been raised under artificial light, and forget their life, have no self-awareness beyond what can be bought, fought or mated with.
Kind of the most primitive parts of their hindbrains are in control.
If a square miles of earth is polouted, that should hurt us all, but it doesn't.
That's the separateness we have been taught in action.
When another acre of forest goes down, we should all grieve for the loss.
Despite claims, this is not a re-newable energy source in the way they would have us believe.
When the polar ice caps melt, we should feel that, we should be alarmed and saddened that they re having to tranquilize Polar bears and helicopter them further north.
From the very small, a nature reserve in your local area having a road put through it, to the ozone depletion levels.
From the inactions of local leaders to the inaction of world leaders, all of this should matter, but they have taught us so very well to be concerned with only ourselves.
Keep the population too tired to think straight, keep them in debt enough not to stop and wonder where their life is going.
Give them enough shiny objects to be bought.
Give them small things to keep them from asking questions.
Ok perhaps I am a nutcase.
But, can anyone tell me how they expect us to be able to carry on like this for another 100 years?
The UK is now going to go nuclear powered again...
Why?
Well our own resources have all but G.O.N.E.
Gone as in, never coming back.
As for the polar ice caps...
Remember you cannot make that a safari park or an area of special interest.
What we do here, the energy we burn, the stuff we buy, what we consume has an impact on the top of the world.
Isn't it hard for us to understand this?
Isn't it going to be SO very hard to change?
What happens if we can't or won't?
Well, I'm just a nutcase on the very fringe of society.
Someone who loves trees and watching birds fly, so I don't have the intelligence to work that all out, or do I?
Movies
Television
Dear friends, Please pass this video on to your communities. Peace, Paul
Maria Daines BBC Radio Sue Marchant Show May 09 Shelter Me CD Release on air
'Shelter Me' is a collection of 18 songs for and about dogs. Each song speaks up loud and proud for man's best friend, inspired by case histories of cruelty, memorials to beloved pets passed over the Rainbow Bridge and other songs highlighting the need for compassion towards homeless animals in our society today.
Thank you to Maura, Mary Alice & Henny for the fantastic banners!
Please read our blog titled, Giving the gift of giving for complete details about how you can help save lives and provide comfort to those less fortunate.
Peace Wins The Election video featuring the music of Maria Daines and Paul Killington.
Greg Allen addresses the City Of Toronto's Pledge TO Green event at Toronto's City Hall, October 14, 2006.
http://www.pledgetogreen.ca
www.pledgetogreen.ca
(please note: video becomes full screen after 18 seconds)
If you would like to comment, please do. Thank you for your kind attention.
This is another video that features many concerned people about the "industrialized" useage of the Toronto Portlands to build the Portlands Energy Centre.
www.stoptheplant.ca
Mayor Miller, Jack Layton, Peter Tabuns, Paula Fletcher, Adam Vaughan, Greg Allen, plus activists and experts weigh in on the mistake by the lake, the Portlands Energy Centre....
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Now this is certainly a positive way to go !!!! Please watch the video below, and I know that you will be filled with the hope that planet Earth is going to be treated with respect by the youth of today and for many generations to come !!!!
Green Ambassadors
Our friend Terra Naomi www.myspace.com/terranaomi performed her song, Say It's Possible, at the Live Earth London concert at Wembley Stadium in the video below.
I sent her a message the very next day saying how I saw her on TV showing us all how to do the right thing at that particular concert. And I also mentioned how proud I was of her to show up at the concert and only use an acoustic guitar in her performance.
Terra was kind enough to respond to my message personally in saying thanks for the support etc...
Now friends, please don't get me wrong here...I saw the Live Earth Concert on TV, and I had hoped that perhaps all the bands and artists would have elected to use the minimalistic approach to their performances that day...and some did, others...not so...but know this, I appreciate all music in many forms of presentation, I just wish that there could have been a mandate to use as little electricity as possible in these concerts.....I suppose next time the organizers will put this out as a possible mandate to performers to use the least amount of non renewable resources in their future performances...as Terra sings...Say It's Possible
Enough of my blabbing...PLEASE enjoy Terra Naomi and her performance of Say It's Possible from the Live Earth London concert at Wembley Stadium.
Peace, and, best regards to you all !!!
Paul
The video below is a song to help raise awareness of the damage we are doing to the planet and it's endangered species. ALL profits are being donated to conservation and wildlife charities. Please visit www.paul-oakley.com to buy the download and for more information.
Lyrics: Ted Carter
Vocals and vocal arrangement: Dave Millard
Music and all instruments: Paul Oakley
Some people may find some of the scenes distressing.
'Callianne' A song of the Sea, by, Maria Daines and Paul Killington. Here is a video that will take you to a beautiful place...a place that we hope would be maintained... Please enjoy and consider...
Books
Heroes
Here's a little gift of music for you to listen to as you ponder the prospects of Peace.
KEEP THE GREEN ALIVE !!!! If you have ever wondered whom the team of Keep The Green Alive are...well...it's all of us...peace... Posted at 5:53 PM Oct 25 view more
About me: The Paul Richmond interviews Greg Allen, KEEP THE GREEN ALIVE !!!! interviews were conducted in 2005 and released on the world wide web October 1 2005. Parts 1 through 7 conducted in Minden, Ontario, Canada. Parts 8 through 11 conducted on Amhurst Island, near, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. For more details about, Greg Allen, BASc, P. Eng., LEED AP please visit, www.s-edge.com
Please click on the banner above to listen to the interview and to find more valuable information regarding many issues of sustainable lifestyles.
It wiped out 85% of all species on Earth in the End-Permian Mass Extinction 251 million years ago, and can do it again, right now. The much milder Cretaceous Crisis was the one that wiped out the dinosaurs.
Global warming is real and unfolding. The deniers are either blind or lying.
Calcutta sounds like a fable in a song, but in reality, it is where John, my colleague and successor, was murdered. He was on the job for only three days when he got his throat slashed. As an undercover investigator targeting the illegal wildlife trade, especially in tiger parts, his real name was unknown, even to me, nor mine to him. We were just John and James to each other. All I know is that he was Chinese American, while his predecessor James - real name Anthony Marr - is Chinese Canadian, and how sincere he was in helping to save the Bengal tiger from being poached out of existence, while its habitat continues to dwindle due to human pressure...
Below is a video of Nigel Potter's song, No
More War (Upon The Green Earth) that is part of the Mantra Of Peace
music compilation. I constructed this video for Nigel because it's an
important song with a very popular sentiment that has been an anthem
for a very long time.
I hope you will watch and appreciate all of our efforts to bring about messages in peaceful artistic means.
Murphy OShea, an Iraq Veteran, has a hard time re-adjusting to society upon his return from a long tour. His world crumbles when he discovers his father, Bill, a Vietnam Veteran, is dying. Trooper is a story of a father and son, two veterans from two very different Wars, helping each other to get through each day, and heal the wounds of War.
Featuring music by, Jessi Robertson and her song, Atlas Shrugged as featured near the end of this independent movie trailer for Trooper.
A HUG CAN CELEBRATE LUV, HAPPINESS, FRIENDSHIP, ALSO COMFORT SORROW, LOSS, UNHAPPINESS, & LONELINESS. IT WILL MAKE YOU FEEL AWESOME TOO! TRY TO HUG SOME EVERY DAY! LUV -N- HUGZZ SALLY
♥ ♥ EVERY PERSON IS A DOOR TO A NEW WORLD - THOUGH SOMETIMES ONE DOOR HAS TO CLOSE FOR ANOTHER TO OPEN...♥ ♥
♥ ♥ 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 IN OUR HEARTS, AND WE ARE NEVER
EVER THE SAME ♥ ♥
We do have a barbarian at the gate, a demon lurking in the ground, frozen there for eons, now being thawed and released into the living world, where it will roast life alive. If you want to really scare yourself silly, watch this 50 minute video in one go. Turn off the light, and the phone..
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, a sprinkle of love-
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