Here is a recent interview with Aloe. I mentioned him in my piece Projecting Into the Future: The Image of Success In Western Society – A Transformation From Charlie Sheen To Aloe Blacc https://nandajurela.com/2020/06/25/projecting-into-the-future-the-image-of-success-in-western-society-a-transformation-from-charlie-sheen-to-aloe-blacc/ I also feel that his 2020 album All Love Everything was the Album of the Year. Much appreciation to Aloe. Happy birthday,Continue reading “Born On This Day: Aloe Blacc”
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Born On this Day: John McLaughlin
You can listen to a new interview with the guitar legend at or to his music. I recommend it.
12/12: A Master Drummers’ Birthday
I listen to the drums to heat up a place, to “flush out” energies and thoughts that I don’t want to keep, to repair myself after disappointments, sadness and upsets, to come back to me, to feel myself again, to find my groove again. The unfriendlier the events, the more percussion I play at home.Continue reading “12/12: A Master Drummers’ Birthday”
Born On This Day: Cindy Blackman Santana
Happy birthday to Cindy Blackman Santana, a role model to all creators of beauty, a virtuoso, a person lit with passion, highly inspiring for her work and personal ethic, the embodiment of the sacred feminine on earth. May many follow her foot steps in their own fields. Listening to Cindy in concert this year wasContinue reading “Born On This Day: Cindy Blackman Santana”
Happy Birthday to Ben L’Oncle Soul
When you sing like that, you don’t need an introduction. Ha ha. At times, words detract from the enjoyment. Just let the music sink in and move your limbs. “Under city lights, you can make me feel the wide open sea, I can feel the rush on the mountain top when you shine your eyesContinue reading “Happy Birthday to Ben L’Oncle Soul”
Happy Birthday To Lani Hall.
Lani Hall turns 75 on this day. The world class singer wrote a book while she was sick with the Epstein Barr Virus and could not perform. It is a mix of fiction and non-fiction short stories about women discovering who they are. Lani does not give many interviews, but when she introduced her book,Continue reading “Happy Birthday To Lani Hall.”
Happy Birthday To Vandana Shiva.
“Farming is care for the land. It is love for the land. It is not an activity to extract from the land.” Vandana Shiva, 68 on this day You will get a lot out of this almost 1 h long conversation between the UBC in Vancouver, in February 2020, and our birthday girl, ahemm, lady. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-0MC4Q3Jyc
Happy Birthday to Gregory Porter.
The singer lost his brother, with whom he was very close, to covid19 and still made himself available to a few interviews this year. … “This is going to sound strange but I’ve been listening to my own music too, just reaffirming the things I believe. When I sing No Love Dying, or even songsContinue reading “Happy Birthday to Gregory Porter.”
Happy Birthday to Bootsy Collins.
The funkateer turns 69 today. Here is a newer interview with him. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jun/15/bootsy-collins-were-all-funky-just-not-all-of-us-know-it
Happy Birthday, Esperanza Spalding.
“Cinnamon Tree, wise and sturdy, your roots are firm in the ground to soak up what is around and make sweet seasoning” – performed live at … I recommend this 20 min long interview with the inspirational Esperanza to all creatives:
Joyeux Anniversaire, Catherine Ringer.
Happy birthday to Catherine Ringer. I was an early fan of Les Rita Mitsouko, and she still got it! Oh yeah. I felt so lucky when I found ‘Communiqueur d’Amour’ on Youtube. 😍
Happy Birthday, Ziggy Marley.
Happy birthday, Dave!
Dave Born – from Dave Born Designs – is pretty much my favourite designer. His stylish commentaries on current topics, the elegance and the echoing strength of his artwork delight me. I am thrilled to give him more exposure! Here are a few posters he made over the years: For Standing Rock: Water Is Life:Continue reading “Happy birthday, Dave!”
Born On This Day: Thich Nhat Hanh
Happy birthday to Thay. On this day, I recall one of his talks, where he talked about personal responsibility, and how our many choices in the home and regarding our schedule and priorities influence our well-being and can last for a long time. He told the audience about a new mother who made the effort to moveContinue reading “Born On This Day: Thich Nhat Hanh”
Happy Birthday To the Great bell hooks
bell hooks is my favourite writer, cultural critic, contemporary thinker. Her wisdom, brilliance, profundity, love-centred consciousness and constructive solutions have no peer in our time. I recommend her books – if you are unfamiliar with her work and are seeking new reading material. If you are familiar with her books and talks, you are probablyContinue reading “Happy Birthday To the Great bell hooks”
Born On this Day: Nick Cave
5 years ago, on Nick Cave’s birthday, I wrote: Thanks to Nick Cave – for having the je ne quois (very cool touch) to not take his wife for granted, even admitting, and admitting in a song, that he feels the fear that she might leave him (which celebrity do you know has the gutsContinue reading “Born On this Day: Nick Cave”
Happy Birthday to Chris Hedges
Chris Hedges is a truth teller at a time when truth is not valued – by the masses. Me, I value it. There are so many great essays, so many good books, so many keen observations that he shared over the decades. On this day, I am grateful to his example. Because he shows up,Continue reading “Happy Birthday to Chris Hedges”
Happy Birthday to Li-Young Lee.
Li-Young Lee is one of the best contemporary American poets and first generation American poets. This interview with him is already 2 decades (!) old, when Li-Young was in his 40s. The content is interesting for all creatives. Enjoy.
Mikao Usui, Born 155 Years Ago
Just for today I am grateful to Mikao Usui’s birth and life and legacy. Just for today, I find his warm, sunny and generous nature in this warm, sunny and generous day. Just for today, I am grateful for the growing respect for all life on earth, nonhuman and human. A peaceable and loving disposition isContinue reading “Mikao Usui, Born 155 Years Ago”
Viva Carlos
A memory of a Santana concert in 2018: Between the songs, Carlos shared highly uplifting ideas about how a collective choice for love can impact the conditions in which we live, heal even unwell situations, make those we come in contact with think in fresh ways, find solutions, stop engaging in harm, and how itContinue reading “Viva Carlos”
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