Let the Music Play

Good music makes it nearly impossible to believe or comprehend that our country is in such turmoil.

Listening to many artists while browsing the Net and reading about the financial disaster all of us face, the music soothes my soul and tells me that there’s no way a country that fostered these excellent artists may be in such dire straits.

The melodies and refrains tell me we are amazing people. we have compassion, skill, integrity, spontaneity, and innocence. we prefer to have fun. we can get down and boogie all night, then get up in the morning all meaningful and go to work. Where did all this complicated, deceitful, financial mess come in? Should we take Congress out for a night on the town, make them dance till they sweat so they could recall how it feels to be human?

Do they think about anything but money? could be they need to loosen up, recall that life is for living, not for being owned by someone, that the big picture is this -  we are here. we can select to find pleasure in it, or we can select to try to control every facet of it and anybody at all involved.

They have forgotten how to live. They exist to feed, to control, to breed their kind, to be superior, to feel supreme.

Yet, the music still plays for me. If our nation is as desperate as it seems, if all hope is gone, then why has not the music died?

I believe it lives because there still exists a large number of humans who have not forgotten what hopes and dreams mean. Through all of this turmoil, we continue to turn on the music, let our feet move, and sway to the beat of love, of life, of self-expression, and to the beat of our hearts saying we are still Americans, we are not to be defeated.

Rock n Roll on, Americans. Turn up the volume! They will have to hear us eventually! Let’s make them dance to our tune!