Old timey song revisit: https://youtu.be/WHQh6d89WAM
And this one from tonight w/my new loaner looper pedal! A revisitation!!! https://youtu.be/DJuyvdSZ_yI
Singin’ Under Bridges
Gotta love sacred reverb
Ms. Moore
Tomorrow it is my new birthday
I get to begin again
My ego has extinguished
As the girl who once was your friend
Tomorrow I start over
Tread on this world lighthearted
Relinquish my claim to inheritance
Of invasion, predation, where the pain started
Tomorrow I will step into myself
Glittering in the sun around my eyes
Moonbeams once pulsing through my fingers
Will abolish my souls’ historic cries
Tomorrow I honor my true beginnings
The steadfast, solid, the core
They held me, saved me, cradled a starving child
Tomorrow, I become me, Anita Moore.
Earle and Juanita Moore, better known as Maw Maw and Paw Paw to all of you. They helped me to be the resilient person I have been. I change my last name in their honor, and give myself permission to be loved and appreciated as the woman I have become. 
Unceasing unending
The heart knows its journey
An unceasing search for love
An unwavering tether to a quest unending
Seems when it’s found, for me then I get lost
Don’t know what to do when the goings are good
When something feels so right, I doubt its rightness, there is no trust of self
I begin to see the flaws
I begin to feel there is carpet under my feet rather than solid ground
All I could count on was uncertainty
Perhaps the paradox is my sentencing
I feel yearning for fulfillment
Through unspoken understanding
Some may call it undeveloped emotional maturity
Yeah this is who I am
A child habitual reflex
response to daily perpetuation of unknown
This is why I search
Why I dig
Why I can’t stop learning
It’s a forever that gives me calm when none can be found
If I can explain it
I can understand it
I can rise above it
I can learn to live with the inevitable
Have you ever felt this way?
despite the joy you feel, there is a bottomless cup longing to be filled?
And there is never enough – or there hasn’t been yet…
I know for once, I am worthy
I feel at last I am deserving of love
Just as all the rest of you
Yet now, the puzzle is the remembering
“But you’ve come so far”
That divine voice came from somewhere in my depths
Perhaps it is the love for which I seek
I want to believe it’s within me not without.
There’s Jesus
Little Girls
We are born fearless, and named after our grandmothers
Then we are hushed, beaten and ashamed
We then built walls, taller than we will ever be
Beyond the clouds, those walls protect you and me
Then we grow up and learn to see
those walls which fortified us, keep us from being free
They’ve become a cage, we must find a way to escape
To get to the light Beyond our enclosed landscape
We inherit the strength and strife of our ancestors
Generations of oppressed children in cages
Self-built and outsourced
Yet, We blame ourselves for so much more
What if I told you it’s all OK?
What if you had permission to thrive?
What if in an instant, you tore down your walls?
What if you believe you could fly?
I’ve been beaten, assaulted, invaded, and invalidated and thrown
Boundaries a foreign concept, and now I’ve learned
That I have a right to one or two of my own
It is my time and time for you
The ripeness of this moment will free you
Like it has freed me, all you have to do is surrender to the sacred savior inside of you
That little girl who saved you
Who gave you the tools to save yourself
She is your higher power
She is your salvation
Treat her with respect and compassion
Cradle her when things become tough
She carried you, now you must carry her
She didn’t deserve her oppression
she didn’t ask for a beating
She called out for help and her mother never answered
She now has you, her protector
I knew a dual world
Two extremes of life
A cradling and an abandonment
A vision of everlasting love and a nightmare of neglect
A plethora of mentors and guides, a whole population of me – shaped limitations
A society meant to hold me down and also the privilege and the choice to rise above
I am finding my way back to the Looking Glass
A child of Neptune sternly placed among the ills of life
Too forcefully unsupported and left with your homemade guilt
There is true wisdom in my fantasies
Yet they were too early extinguished, and I am finding my way back now
You can also find yours.
The path to the box of liquid filled rainbows,
The visions lie beyond what we can see
The inspiration my little girl has left for me to be
She still has her key, it was hidden and is now bright
Shining by the light through the keyhole of the drawer she buried it out of sight.
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Life Is A Beautiful Gift
The moon, she is out tonight
Smiling at all the stars
Venus is setting behind her
All the frogs chirp as if they know who you are
A neighbor out wandering the night
A singer who’s feeling all right
A cherished and colorful mist of all things
This life is a beautiful gift
From my hands, to heaven I lift
All the prayers of thanks and bounty, recognition of all who came before
Those who blindly led us to right now,
Those who died blind not knowing how
To open their eyes and see
All the magic now within me
Resilience that I’ve never known
Only mountains within me have shown
The strength that I thought I lacked
Where the moon, she Always had my back
When the love from the stars carry me home
And within me, a child, she has grown
