Specially curated for Michael Red's SLOWTEMPO stage at Basscoast in 2019 - I had a lot of fun putting this together. Thanks for thinking of me Michael! it meant the world to me to be able to participate, and it was great to bring things full circle and to a new audience <3 

The message of this set is really about love.... Don't forget through everything, this is the most important message. It binds us together as humans, family, friends, and as lovers. 

Love will win in the end, so soften yourself to her will and let it wash over you....

The message below was mailed to my old record store Temple of Sound in 1994. I've been saving it for all these years and last fall it popped into my mind as very important and significant to me. I realize now that I need more love in my life. We all do!

LOVE. A subject which defies the limits of space and time; which transcends all boundaries of politics, religion, race, color, shape, size or history. Love is a beautiful world of mystery and infinite energy. Love is more than a concept or physical motivation. Love is a pure energy which inhabits everyone and everything . . . one endless source of energy accessible to any human being, at any given moment in any given environment. Be it in the sanctity of a church, the stillness of a night, during a party of thousands, or on a beach of solitary splendor. Love is an intangible which has been both a source of passionate desire and of intense sadness which has plagued and entranced conscious man since the beginning of recorded history. 

A vast subject, indeed, yet one which is inex-haustible and universal. Why? What is it about this thing called love that obsesses us so? Why is it that we look upon it as something we "have" or are "in" or that we "fall into?" Wherever did we learn the idea that it was something that might chain us down, or break our hearts, or make us whole? Why is it that we need it and can't live without it? Why do we ever look for something outside of ourselves to make us whole? To define us? To make us feel better about ourselves? Or to forget ourselves? . 

. . There is so much more .. . 

Love is constant, omnipresent and pure vibration which lives inside everyone of us. Love is inherent in our very nature. You are love. The power of love is always at your fingertips because you are alive. Love exists inside and outside of every living thing. Love is yours for the having. We are all so beautiful with infinite possibilities. Everyone of us is a unique creature with thoughts, dreams, ideas, desires and creativity to be cultivated and shared with each other. Love is a flow whose very nature is to move into and out of us like the air. Each of us is a unique force with our own unique way of expressing the love we have. The important thing is to do just that express love. Live in love...with love. 

We are all brothers and sisters with boundless energy and Love to spare. We are stronger together. To love yourself. To love those around you. Love is what we have to give. Love is who we are. Love and respect yourself and the earth around you. Reach deep inside your soul and see how beautiful you and the world around you is. 

It is easy to hate. Easy to be jealous. Easy to take. Easy to be violent. It is hard to love and give of yourself. We think we know how. We don't know anything. We must open our mind to each other...to support and love each other. 

We all want the same thing....to be loved and heard. 

So, love and listen. 

OPEN UP YOUR HEART Ministry of Love (San Francisco 1994)

binhex

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