I Love Your Hair: Updated & Reposted from 2012

Below is my version of this video dedicated to my daughter and nieces.  GlennDL

 

 

“A little Muppet girl has started a sensation. The unnamed puppet with an afro sings a love song to her hair. ‘I Love My Hair’ debuted on the Oct. 4 episode of Sesame Street. It was posted on the show's YouTube page — and then women began posting the video on their Facebook pages. African-American bloggers wrote that it brought them to tears because of the message it sends to young black girls.

 

Here is the original Sesame Street video and story.
'I Love My Hair': A Father's Tribute To His Daughter

Joey Mazzarino, the head writer of Sesame Street, is also a Muppeteer who wrote the song for his daughter. Mazzarino is Italian. He and his wife adopted their 5-year-old daughter, Segi, from Ethiopia when she was a year old. Mazzarino says he wrote the song after noticing his daughter playing with dolls. "She wanted to have long blond hair and straight hair, and she wanted to be able to bounce it around," he tells NPR's Melissa Block. Mazzarino says he began to get worried, but he thought it was only a problem that white parents of African-American children have. Then he realized the problem was much larger. In writing the song, he wanted to say in song what he says to his daughter: "Your hair is great. You can put it in ponytails. You can put it in cornrows. I wish I had hair like you." That simple message has caused an outpouring of responses from women. Mazzarino got a call from an African woman who told him the song brought her to tears. "I was amazed, 'cause I sort of wrote this little thing for my daughter, and here this adult woman, it touched her," he says.

Mazzarino says he's happy to report that Segi loves the song — and her hair.”

2021: Penalizing Black hair in the name of academic success is undeniably

racist, unfounded, and against the law

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iNDy MuTT STRuT: 2016

Mutt Strut benefiting the Humane Society of
Indianapolis:
May 15, 2016 | Garfield Park
Indianapolis, Indiana

Hotel California: Acoustic

courtesy of Wendell C. W.

Mary Did You Know

reposted from 2012

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Love In Your Heart

Most of the time we don't truly understand our motives anymore than we understand our emotions. Why do we continue to participate in the lives of those around us? We assume it is natural when those around us are pleasant and like-minded, we believe it nurtures and replenishes us as well as them. But what about those that trouble us, who bring discourse and stress?
When the person is a positive experience we seek and embrace the positive, we don't feel the need to define it. When the person is not positive we stop. When we see others continue to associate with the less than positive person we critique and analyze, we have concern for them, their continued exposure. We assume that the relationship can only be damaging to them. When everyone else steps away from them and points to the toxicity of that relationship, why are they still there?
The question we should ask is why aren't we?
Why do we look at the less positive person and label them toxic. less than positive, stressful? Is the only way we can see a relationship as nurturing and capable of replenishing us to seek to surround ourselves in a world of rainbows and lollipops? Can we truly nourish and replenish ourselves by always taking the easier path?
When we choose the easier path and just look for the good in the positive people we keep around us are we really accomplishing anything? We accomplish little when all we look for is the bad in the less positive people and cut them off.
When someone else chooses the harder path, looking for the good in the less positive person why do we seek to criticize and rationalize their choice as bad? Is it because they chose to look for the good in a person we call 'toxic'?
Hence, we tend to now push them away, or keep them at a distance, to protect us from that toxicity. A move that could very well distance us from a truly positive person, who by example can nourish and replenish us the most.
We question their decision to help the toxic, we doubt the rationale of their motives and emotions and label them naive or foolish. Questioning them is missing the point. They are easily understood... they are simple people of compassion who do what they do out of love and self-fulfillment.
It is our motives and emotions that we should be questioning. In our world of rainbows and lollipops we are not being nourished or replenished by those 'positive' people around us. We are being stagnated. Our emotions are unchallenged. Our motives are not thought provoking. Our positive friends are a safe distraction. But we can't truly know contentment if we have no concept of disappointment, that is naïve and foolish.
Instead of looking for just the good in the good, and the bad in the bad, and weakness in the compassionate... lets try looking for the the good in everyone and the grace in the compassionate.
Sometimes to get to the green meadow in the sunshine we have to push through the dark forest..
............................Glenn Littrell

Put A Little Love In Your Heart

Jackie DeShannon

Think of your fellow man
Lend him a helping hand
You see it's getting late
Oh, please don't hesitate

Another day goes by
Still the children cry
If you want the world to know
We won't let hatred grow

Take a good look around
And if you're looking down
I hope when you decide
Kindness will be your guide

And the world will be a better place
All the world will be a better place
For you and me
You just wait and see

Put a little love in your heart

 

B.B. King (Riley B. King):

B.B. King, whose scorching guitar licks and heartfelt vocals made him the idol of generations of musicians and fans while earning him the nickname King of the Blues, died late Thursday at home in Las Vegas. He was 89.     -- September 16, 1925 – May 14, 2015

The Thrill Is Gone" (Eric Clapton, BB King, Robert Cray, Jimmie Vaughan and others)
Sounding Out – B. B. King (1972)

Call Me Maybe / Share It Maybe

“Hey, me just met you, and this is crazy /
But you got cookie, so share it maybe.”

El Condor Pasa - by Alexandro Querevalú

500 Days of Summer

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re-posted from 6-1-2010

Really luv these two guys.

While My Guitar Gently Weeps

Prince, Tom Petty, Steve Winwood, Jeff Lynne and others perform "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" at the 2004 Hall of Fame Inductions.

2CELLOS: AC/DC Thunderstruck:

Original AC/DC Version

From Washington to Obama

I had seen this a few years ago before Bush and Obama.  Its pretty neat. If the video is not playing click the Play [arrow] button.  re-posted from 5-2-2010

courtesy of Mary C. Littrell-Cook

Another Lady GaGa Cover: “Just Dance”

Marines trying to have some fun while in a War Zone

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courtesy of Kelly

see also Lady GaGA Cover: “Bad Romance” its hilarious.

Born Again American

re-posted from 2008

Declare Yourself is the national nonpartisan, nonprofit voter initiative aimed at registering America's 18-year-olds to vote in the 2008 primaries and general election. DeclareYourself.com is your place for news and information about the candidates and issues, answers to your questions about registering and voting, and an easy-to-use online registration tool.
Declare Yourself will give millions of first-time voters an active voice in their democracy & prove that they are a force to be reckoned with.
Register. Vote. Declare Yourself.

 

Just a workin' man without a job
It got shipped off to China via Washington, D.C.
And I know I'm nothin' special, there are plenty more like me
Just the same
I thought I knew the rules of the game
I stood up for this country that I love
I came back from the desert to a wife and kids to feed
I'm not sayin' Uncle Sam should give me what I need
My offer stands
I'll pull my weight you give me half a chance
I went up to a congressman and said to him "you know
Our government is letting people down"
He said he'd need a lot of help to buck the status-quo
I said there was a bunch of us around
I'm a Born Again American, conceived in liberty
My Bible and the Bill of Rights, my creed's equality
I'm a Born Again American, my country 'tis of me
And everyone who shares the dream from sea to shining sea
My brother's welding chassis at the plant
He's earning what our granddad did in 1948
While CEOs count bonuses behind the castle gates
How can they see?
When all they care about's the "dough"-re-"me"
It's getting where there's nowhere left to turn
Not since the crash of twenty-nine have things been so unfair
So many of our citizens are living in despair
The time has come
To reaffirm that hope's not just for some
The promise of America's surrendering to greed
The rule is "just look out for number one"
But brace yourself 'cause some of us have sown a different seed
A harvest of the spirit has begun
I'm a Born Again American conceived in liberty
My Bible and The Bill Of Rights, my creed's equality
A Born Again American, my country 'tis of me
And everyone who shares the dream from sea to shining sea
It's clear my country's soul is on the line
She's hungering for something that she lost along the way
The principle the framers called upon us to obey
That in this land
The people's will must have the upper hand
I felt the calling once before and took a sacred vow
And faithful to that vow I have remained
I hear the calling once again, my country needs me now
And to her cause I have been re-ordained
I'm a Born Again American conceived in liberty
My Bible and the Bill Of Rights, all people living free
A Born Again American, my country 'tis of me
And everyone who shares the dream
From sea to shining sea
And everyone who shares the dream
From sea to shining sea
A M E R I C A

The Evolution of Dad Dancing (w/ Jimmy Fallon & Gov. Chris Christie)

In honor of Father's Day, Jimmy and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie present The Evolution of Dad Dancing.

Lewis Clark: Over Easy

courtesy of Jerry Nolen
re-posted from 2011

Enter Sandman - METALLICA Cover - The Warning… amazing, 3 little girls rock-it!!!

Playing For Change: Stand By Me

Stand By Me
Benjamin Earl King (September 28, 1938 – April 30, 2015), known as Ben E. King,

 

reposted from 5-28-2010

Playing For Change: SITTING ON THE DOCK OF THE BAY

courtesy of Gary L.

“Come Out Fighting.”

 

reposted from 3-1-11

“When they’re marching in the street, when they’re voting with their feet, I’m gonna Come Out Fighting.” –Easterhouse