There Will Be Time by Mumford & Sons/Baaba Maal
August 14th, 2016. WOW! I can't believe how time flies. Seriously, I look back at the last years and I blur events that happened in 2010 with 2012 with 2014.
2016 will always have a pretty awesome significance. I got married one month ago. And what's cool is that there always seemed to be a soundtrack playing in my head since we got engaged in September of last year some of which was:
XO by Beyonce
Daydream by Nitin Sawhney
You've Got the Love by Florence and the Machine
Your Song by Ellie Goulding
You and I by Ingrid Michaelson
Falling for You by Leela James
Here are these epic songs that help us to understand the nature of love. And when I think back to July 3rd and the week before that surrounded us-the love was tremendously epic: not only between Anay and me, but from everyone. I am more and more moved by the actions of others that promote love, especially in the climate we live in now. It's our deepest call to action.
Throughout these last several months, I was constantly reminded of Maya Angelou's quote:
"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
That feeling of love... that magical, want to bottle up feeling of love people showed in the most authentic ways from making buying bunches of flowers in the morning of the Sangeet at Pike Place to writing screen plays where at the end 20 people belted, 'Here Comes the Sun.'
A month before the wedding, my cousin Teena shared a song by Mumford & Sons/Baaba Maal: There Will Be Time. And my sister shared it again. And now, I've had the time to keep on listening to it and so appreciate the voice, the sentiments, the sweeping feeling of it.
The lyrics begin:
"Listen to me
I want to tell you something
The reason I love you is because
You are the one
who has taught me to love
and appreciate life."
Those first lines are everything. Who are the people that teach us how to love and appreciate this crazy beautiful.tragic.amazing.challenging life in front of us?
Mumford & Sons went on a South African tour and recorded with Baaba Maal, this incredible musician from Sengegal, along with other musicians from Cape Town, Sweden, France and Malawi. "It's the feeling of coming together for the love of music that comes across on the new songs." (David Smyth, Evening Standard, June 17th, 2016).
Yes, AND there is the feeling of immense possibility in this song. That's what I am paying attention in our present day. What's possible. What we can become. That's who I want to surround myself with too: those that believe in the future (not in an abstract way), but who are taking action.
Check out the song below. Know that even in the darkness, there is light and possibility. There is love. Keep looking, you'll find these sparks in crevices you weren't even aware existed.
2016 will always have a pretty awesome significance. I got married one month ago. And what's cool is that there always seemed to be a soundtrack playing in my head since we got engaged in September of last year some of which was:
XO by Beyonce
Daydream by Nitin Sawhney
You've Got the Love by Florence and the Machine
Your Song by Ellie Goulding
You and I by Ingrid Michaelson
Falling for You by Leela James
Here are these epic songs that help us to understand the nature of love. And when I think back to July 3rd and the week before that surrounded us-the love was tremendously epic: not only between Anay and me, but from everyone. I am more and more moved by the actions of others that promote love, especially in the climate we live in now. It's our deepest call to action.
Throughout these last several months, I was constantly reminded of Maya Angelou's quote:
"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
That feeling of love... that magical, want to bottle up feeling of love people showed in the most authentic ways from making buying bunches of flowers in the morning of the Sangeet at Pike Place to writing screen plays where at the end 20 people belted, 'Here Comes the Sun.'
It reminds me how we all rise to the occasion and then go above and beyond.
A month before the wedding, my cousin Teena shared a song by Mumford & Sons/Baaba Maal: There Will Be Time. And my sister shared it again. And now, I've had the time to keep on listening to it and so appreciate the voice, the sentiments, the sweeping feeling of it.
The lyrics begin:
"Listen to me
I want to tell you something
The reason I love you is because
You are the one
who has taught me to love
and appreciate life."
Those first lines are everything. Who are the people that teach us how to love and appreciate this crazy beautiful.tragic.amazing.challenging life in front of us?
Mumford & Sons went on a South African tour and recorded with Baaba Maal, this incredible musician from Sengegal, along with other musicians from Cape Town, Sweden, France and Malawi. "It's the feeling of coming together for the love of music that comes across on the new songs." (David Smyth, Evening Standard, June 17th, 2016).
Yes, AND there is the feeling of immense possibility in this song. That's what I am paying attention in our present day. What's possible. What we can become. That's who I want to surround myself with too: those that believe in the future (not in an abstract way), but who are taking action.
Check out the song below. Know that even in the darkness, there is light and possibility. There is love. Keep looking, you'll find these sparks in crevices you weren't even aware existed.
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