Do it now!
As you can observe if you read my blogs, John Denver was one of my heroes. The music he wrote and sang were transcendent in nature. So many lyrics that have brightened my saddest nights and given me courage to do things a better way. Twenty years ago on October 19th he flew his last flight in this lifetime. I remember a line from his Poems Prayers and Promises song which went “The changes somehow frighten me, still I have to smile. It turns me on to think of growing old.” He left when he was 54, I don’t think that was old. I don’t think John accomplished all he wanted to do even though it was more than most would do.
It reminds me that most of us have no idea how much time we have in this life. What is it that you still want to do? What is on your bucket list? Many of us have so many gifts and talents to share and we don’t. Life seems to get in the way. Working to make ends meet. Getting an education. Raising a family. All wonderful things to devote our time to. And don’t miss out on something deep inside you that keeps calling you to do what only you can do. May we all find our passion and create a world where we live as one. Here is one of my favorite Denver songs. From my heart to yours, Thomas I am also posting a live recording of this wonderful song.
“I Want To Live”
There are children raised in sorrow on a scorched and barren plain,
there are children raised beneath a golden sun.
There are children of the water, children of the sand,
and they cry out through the universe, their voices raised as one:
I want to live, I want to grow, I want to see, I want to know,
I want to share what I can give, I want to be, I want to live.
Have you gazed out on the ocean, seen the breaching of a whale?
Have you watched the dolphins frolic in the foam?
Have you heard the song the humpback hears five hundred miles away?
Telling tales of ancient history of passages and home?
I want to live, I want to grow, I want to see, I want to know,
I want to share what I can give, I want to be, I want to live.
For the worker and the warrior, the lover and the liar, for the native and the wanderer in kind.
For the maker and the user, and the mother and her son.
I am looking for my family and all of you are mine.
We are standing all together, face to face and arm in arm.
We are standing on the threshold of a dream.
No more hunger, no more killing, no more wasting life away.
It is simply an idea and I know its time has come.
I want to live, I want to grow, I want to see, I want to know,
I want to share what I can give, I want to be,
I want to live, I want to grow, I want to see, I want to know,
I want to share what I can give, I want to be, I want to live.
I want to live, I want to grow, I want to see, I want to know,
I want to share what I can give, I want to be, I want to live, I want to live, I want to live.