Give Love on Christmas Day

Kai's SONG OF THE WEEK:

"'Give Love on Christmas Day' is a Christmas song first recorded by Motown Records' family quintet The Jackson 5." The version I share with you today is cover by one of the greatest soul singers of our day, Ledisi. This version can be found on her 2008 Christmas album,"It's Christmas." (lyrics)

 

Kai's Thoughts: 

I am grateful for love today and everyday.

I am grateful for smiles from strangers.

I’m grateful for the sun, the moon, and the stars.

I’m grateful for the rain.

I’m grateful for the quiet that comes when the rain ceases.

I am grateful for old ladies who smell like sweet potato pie and peppermint sticks.

I am grateful for the brother who was out on Lakeshore yesterday with his amp, blessing the world with his soulful baritone.

I am grateful for my friend, my elder, Terry De Grace who invited me and my mother to her Christmas Eve church services yesterday at the Plymouth UCC Chruch of Jazz and Justice.

I am grateful for the message of hope and faith. 

I am grateful that even in the face of a reality that tells us we shouldn’t be here,  some of us still believe and struggle for life and joy and FREEDOM.

I am grateful for those of us who believe that what is, does not determine what will/can be.

I am grateful for the solstice ritual that Fly and Jay invited me to.

I am grateful for the end of this time according to the Mayan calendar.

I am pre-grateful for the end of Capitalist time.

I am grateful for the Time of Revolutionary Love that continually disrupts Capitalist time.

I am grateful for YOU.

What are you grateful for today?

A Love Poem for Love

       It is the end of time as we have known it

         But we are still alive            And love still persist

     With a brush from the lips             Of my lover, she slips

                                                                                                              Forward, out of space             And I don’t catch her             ‘Cause she fly

             And the sun burns for her

                 Like my soul, it yearns for her     

           Transformative elsewheres

        And I think I hear myself there

                  No there… there…

                                                                                              And beyond…

  It is always the words unspoken

That make you feel

                                                                                                        As though flying is a possibility        

Alive and Alive

                                                     Jumping into darkeness'                                           light

         It is as sweet as smoke and soft lips touching

            Calloused hands and ashy legs meet to make beautiful

                          This and these                  

                                                                                                 Words don’t make much sense here

In the silences of full hearts

 Sparked stares reveal something...

Laughter and smiles make music

The kind I like to listen to when I’m all by myself or

Dancing with you 

                                      Embracing the moment

                                                                                                                   It won’t last                        

                                                                                             But  for now

It is enough

I’ve never been full like this

And still these words won’t make much sense                            here

They belong, nowhere                                                  here

 Yet exist.

 

 

 

Hold on to whatever it is that keeps the sky from falling

For it also keeps you and I from drowning.

SENDING MUCH LOVE TO YOU AND YOURS<3<3<3 #givemorelove