inspiring words

Last minute Jen and I bought tickets to see Ani tonight! It was wonderful, wolftrap is an awesome place, the lawn was one big hippy fest with blankets and wine and lesbians and all sorts of people. I loved hearing a bunch of new songs... here's some greeeat lyrics to one of them:


i had to leave the house of privilege
spend christmas homeless and feeling bad
to learn privilege is a headache
that you don't know that you don't have
i had to leave the house of television
to start noticing the clouds
it's amazing the stuff you see when
you finally shed that shroud

i had leave the house of conformity
in order to make art
i had to be more and less true
to learn to tell the two apart
i had to leave the house of fear
just about as soon as i could crawl
ignore my face on a wanted poster
stuck to the post office wall

i had leave the house of self-importance
to doodle my first tattoo
to realize a tattoo is no more permanent
than i am, and who
ever said that life is suffering
i think they had their finger on the pulse of joy
and the power of transcendence
made its grace a practice we can employ.





tell me that's not awesome! there were other songs i can't find the lyrics to that i absolutely loved as well. something about... not being in the best shape, and i'm going somewhere and it's not where i've been. something like that, it was beautiful, really, and i kept getting teary eyed. but it has been an emotional week or so for me. i'm near the CD making end. halelujah! spread the word about the party-- www.jodimclaren.com. it's gonna rock, basically. so be there.


Jodi