I tried to warn people, as quite a few others did as well, that the economy was slip slidin' into an unhappy part of town. Not a lot of people wanted to hear that.
I tried to warn people, in spite of their resistance, that this would "change" not only the day to day experiences of millions of people, but would burn deep in to the soul of those whose lives were thrown helter skelter in to the statistical hodge podge that foreclosures and long-term unemployment would put them, setting the stage for a "revolution in consciousness" that would erupt, one day, from deep within.
Changes, real changes, in thought and deed typically don't come quickly and they don't come without a lot of bumps and bruises. Carl Jung said "there is no coming to consciousness without pain" . . . sadly, for a lot of people, that pain has hit hard. The time has come, now, though -- truly, to wake up. Change the world.
As artists and people of color and heart, it is time to band together, more and more, in an emotional and logistical "tribe" . . . it is time, I believe, to step up and walk in to this "new time" -- 'cause I see it, just as I saw the economic time bombs waiting to go off, I see this, too. Time for love, time for sharing, time for a better world.
The time is now.
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