GOOD READS: This is the best time of year to curl up with a good book, and my stack has been piling up with volumes I can’t wait to read. Right now I am enjoying Judy Cannato’s Field of Compassion—How the New Cosmology is Transforming Spiritual Life. Judy is a brilliant, brave and amazing woman who understands things like quantum physics better than anyone I know and combines that interest with deep spirituality and the New Universe Story. I feel honored that she often uses my music in her workshops and presentation. I am inspired to write new songs as I read her work. She is a recent recipient of the Sacred Universe Award, and reminds me with every page of the hope, promise and love of the Universe!
I am big fans of journalist Amy Goodman’s work— her radio and TV broadcasts “Democracy NOW,” (www.democracynow.org) her books and interviews, and her courageous investigative journalism into war crimes, big media, food safety and more. I happened to be on the same “running-very-late” train as Ms. Goodman, to Washington DC to hear her speak at a recent Green Festival. So I got to help! For an hour or more I was Amy Goodman’s road assistant, carrying, researching the morning papers, dashing from train to cab, running thru the convention center where she took off her coat and brushed her hair as she stepped to the podium to speak extemporaneously for an hour. Brilliantly. Touching on every pressing issue of the day, reminding us constantly that each cholera victim in Haiti, each victim of torture detailed in the Wiki-leaks documents, and each citizen denied healthcare coverage based on a pre-existing condition is a PERSON, not a statistic.
I am reading her newest book Breaking the Sound Barrier and I am reminded why Bill Moyers, Willie Nelson, Arianna Huffington and so many others tout her work. She gives me courage.
