true love

"I suddenly realized that what I was feeling was the love of the Earth, the love of Creation. Every day we, as a species, do so much to destroy Creation's ability to give us life. But that Creation continues to do everything in its power to give us life anyway. And that's true love."

— Julia Butterfly Hill, in Legacy of Luna

forever (get down on your knees)

i've seen forever and i've come back to today
but i'd go back to forever without any delay
endless limitations leave me limiting what i please
so go ahead baby, get down on your knees

pray to god that all the hard of me will soon wither away
reform my transformations so that i'll be well behaved
'cause you know i'd go back to forever anytime, anyday
with or without you baby, i'll be on my way

promiscuous intentions, that's not the way i play
it just seems so much easier to give in to the game
let it be as it shall be and try to fill the need

and if you'd like to you can take me to forever any way you please
like the blind leading the blind baby, i'll follow all your dreams
knowing all your praying may not take me where it seems
the clouds below, quid pro quo, will have me turning japanese

until i come back to today with forever far away
praying never really helped, especially that way
like your love for me baby, it's all just one big tease
so go ahead baby, get up off your knees

toni braxton...

...is a hottie.

Good News

US CITIES SNUB BUSH AND SIGN UP TO KYOTO

Dozens of mayors, representing more than 25 million Americans, pledge to cut greenhouse gases


Mayors from across the US are signing up to an initiative to get American cities to meet the US's Kyoto environmental target which George Bush repudiated: cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 7% by 2010.
The response has astounded the scheme's founder, Seattle's mayor, Greg Nickels, who persuaded eight other mayors to write on March 30 to 400 colleagues across the country.

Dozens of cities have since contacted his office with the total reaching 134 in 35 states yesterday.


The mayors who have signed up represent 29.3 million people. Although most are Democrats some 12 big cities with Republican mayors, representing 8 million people, have joined, including New York city. Mr Nickels is a Democrat but he said his campaign was non-partisan.
"This campaign has clearly touched a nerve with the American people," he said. "The climate affects Democrats and Republicans alike. Here in Seattle we rely on the winter snow for our drinking water and hydro-electricity but it is disappearing; in Florida they have had hurricanes; in California they have had unseasonal heavy rain. Our weather patterns are changing."

He said each city had a tough target of cutting its emissions by 7% and each mayor would choose "a different path". "Conditions in Hurst, Texas are different to here in Seattle," he said "but we both think we can do it."

He said the fight to prevent climate change would not be expensive. "There are changes we will have to make but there are many opportunities to create employment and make for a better life. In any event the costs of doing nothing are greater than doing something.

"Climate change is happening and causing a lot of problems already. This can only get worse and we have to start doing something about it now. Lots of other Americans appear to agree."

Among the proposals are running municipal vehicles on gas or electricity, investment in renewable energy, planting trees, promoting car pooling, improving public transport and providing cycle lanes.

Each city has signed up to produce a greenhouse gas inventory and a plan on how to reduce it.

In Seattle cruise ships are required to turn off their diesel engines in dock and hook up to the city's renewable energy supplies to cut emissions, a move which has caused some ships to refit their electricity systems. Salt Lake City has become Utah's biggest buyer of wind power in order to meet its target.

New York's mayor, Michael Bloomberg, who signed up last week, is trying to reduce emissions from the municipal vehicle fleet by buying hybrid powered vehicles.

Ray Nagin, the mayor of low-lying New Orleans and a Democrat, told the New York Times that he joined the coalition because a projected rise in sea levels "threatens the very existence of New Orleans".

In Hawaii, the mayor of Maui county, Alan Arakawa, a Republican, said he joined because he was frustrated by Washington's failure to recognise the scientific consensus that climate change was happening because of human activity.

Seattle's move is the latest in groundswell of concern about the Bush administration's failure to take action on climate.

The White House has poured money into research and believes technology will solve the problem while at the same time maintaining that taking action now would lead to higher energy prices and the loss of 5 million jobs.

In a separate alliance a number of states, including New York, have signed up to a carbon trading deal which would cut the emissions of fossil fuel burning power stations by exchanging carbon credits for cash.

Salt Lake City Is Cool

US GRASSROOTS REVOLT

It would be easy to think that America doesn't doesn't give a fig for the rest of the world's concerns about global warming. President Bush has ignored his own scientists and kept the US out of the Kyoto treaty, and last week his chief climate negotiator, Harlan Watson, seemed to dash Tony Blair's hopes of a breakthrough at the G8 summit in July when he provocatively said that he saw no reason to take any speedy action. The ice caps may be melting and 19 of America's warmest years on record may have occurred since 1980, but the country responsible for a quarter of the world's greenhouse-gas emissions regrettably sees no reason to act. Wrong.

The White House is not America, and over the past few years concerned local authorities, institutions and groups of all political persuasions have quietly cocked a snook at the president by committing their communities to the same targets and timetables that the US would have been legally obliged to meet had it signed up to Kyoto. As of yesterday, 154 US local governments - representing more than 50 million people and responsible for 20% of all US greenhouse emissions - are part of a coalition that has pledged to reduce emissions by 7% below 1990 levels by 2012: more than Europe has committed to.

Rather than fall for the White House line that meeting Kyoto targets means higher petrol prices and millions of lost jobs, they are taking industry and voters with them, dramatically cutting energy costs. Some, such as Salt Lake City and Seattle, have targets well below most European countries, and others are ditching SUVs and rethinking transport and heating strategies.
Not to be outdone, hundreds of universities have followed suit, But while these voluntary initiatives show America in a welcome light, they are, regretfully, not enough.

If the world is to really address climate change, it needs the US government on every level to encourage, cajole, educate and insist on early action. George Bush should listen less to the vested interests of the oil and coal industries and more to his grassroots where common sense is often found.

my confusing misconception

she follows a road
one that i've never known
she goes on her own
leaving me behind all alone

and when i try to catch up
it seems i only mess up
and never know
how far to go

sometimes i don't know her
my confusing misconception
sometimes i just prefer
my own naive perception

it seems i could love her
at one point or another
but it seems i don't even know her
every other time

she's there just ahead
walking the path she lead
we're getting closer yet
but she chose to forget instead

and when i try to catch up
it seems i only mess up
and never know
how far to go

sometimes i don't know her
my confusing misconception
sometimes i just prefer
my own naive perception

it seems i could love her
at one point or another
but it seems i dont' even know her
every other time

and when her road ends
i wonder if we'll just be friends
or if i can pretend
to love her more once again

'cause when i try to catch up
it seems i only mess up
and never know
how far to go

sometimes i don't know her
my confusing misconception
sometimes i just prefer
my own naive perception

it seems i could love her
at one point or another
and i'd much rather prefer
to pretend all those other times

centripital anticipation of unbound love

partial views of love anticipate my vision
of a life beyond the limitations of this world
an everlasting skin-tingling sensation
that never fades with reality or the lesser-goods of life
an orchestra of uplifting joy
will exasperate my ability to fly
until the parial view of love causes centripital anticipation
again
with true love guiding each of our destined perspectives
faux finishes of delicately patterned blockages
unacceptance and freedomlessness
will tarnish under celebrations of the united
love
that much i can do with each step and every syllable
of the symphony my soul is in rehearsal for
harboring positivity and sparkles of unconditional futures
filling my night sky with infinite examples of why
i choose to love
and why the partial views of the miraculous nature of love
sends me spiraling in an inherently uncomparable fixation
gleaming with the future sights of those united
under unbound love

For The Love Of You

Driftin’ on a memory
Ain’t no place I’d rather be
Than with you, yeah
Lovin’ you, well, well, well

Day will make a way for night
All we’ll need is candlelight
And a song, yeah
Soft and long, yeah ooh

Glad to be
Here alone with a lover unlike no other
Sad to see
A new horizon slowly comin’ into view, yeah

I wanna be livin’
For the love of you, oh yes I am
All that I’m givin’
Is for the love of you, alright now,

Lovely as a ray of sun
That touches me when the mornin’ comes
Feels good to me, yeah
My love and me, well

Smoother than a gentle breeze
Flowin’ through my mind with ease
Soft as can be, well
When you’re lovin’ me, when you’re lovin’ me, ooh

Love to be
Ridin’ the waves of your love, enchanted with your touch
And it seems to me
We could sail together in and out of mystery, well

I wanna be livin’
For the love of you, alright now
All that I’m givin’
Is for the love of you, you got me girl

I wanna be livin’
For the love of you, alright now
All that I’m givin’, givin’
Is for the love of you, oh, yes, I am

Paradise I have within
Can’t feel insecure again
You’re the key, well
And this I see, for I see

Now and then I lose my way
Usin’ words that try to say
What I feel, yeah
Love is real, oh love is real, ooh

I might as well
Sign my name on a card which could say it better
Time will tell
‘Cause it seems that I’ve done just about all that I can do

I know that I’m livin’
For the love of you, oh yes I am
I know that I’m livin’
For the love, love of you

Every, every day I’m livin’
For love of you
I’m livin’ for the love
Each and every day

I’m oh whoa, I’m oh yes I am
I wanna say it one more time
Said I’m livin’
For the love

Each and every day I’m, oh whoa I’m
Lord knows I am
Write that down
Said that I’m livin’
For the love, love of you
Ooh, ooh

The Isley Brothers - For The Love Of You