I imagined this song being sung in the rebel camp, or maybe to remember and pay respect to lost tributes. This is just the guide track - we are in the studio now working on the album. It was written with my daughter Rachel's help after we read all three books together in quick succession; well done Suzanne Collins, we loved them! - Gotta love the films too!!
 - After all, there are worse games to play...

Mockingjay

Sitting In The Twilight

Its the difference between the health, physique and vitality we are entitled to, and the battery-fed equivalent product of the food industry's twisted imagination that we have all been turning into.
Utmost respect for Jamie's food revolution. Needed doing. 
Had our own health journey, utterly dependent on the right foods being eaten. Became even more sceptical about the workings and motivations of the NHS, Doctors, Pharmaceuticals, Food Manufacturers, Government... tried writing to Dame Sally Davies, chief medical officer, DOH, NHS, Jim O'Neil at WHO, BBC, MPs, oncologists, you name it, but nobody 'gets it'.
They have said that you're more likely to get cancer if you are obese - but they can't see that obesity is an early but clear indicator that there is something wrong with the food you are eating, and that food is really the precursor for most health problems - and if we accept that bad food and lifestyle choices are a cancer risk - is it such a leap to suggest that a good diet can reverse the damage?
Yet even top private hospitals under the supervision of top oncologists, are still serving their sickest patients cups of milky tea with a custard cream on the side, when a cocktail of fresh juices (see Gerson Therapy) might be more effective than the cocktail of drugs they have to endure. But who will invest in finding out? There is no money in it. Once you become that ill, your immunity so low, you become utterly dependent on the drugs and antibiotics to keep you alive, but that's not 'living', and the only way back from there, is to trust in your body's own ability to heal... which requires the correct nutrition...
And don't get me started on antibiotics - we take them at our peril - I mean, seriously, you have to be dying before it's worth taking that risk.
Antibiotics v The Human Biome, Soil health, all comes into it.
Hoping to popularise the message through song in desperation!!
Any help or support gratefully appreciated.
READ ON;
For only a 60% chance of keeping global warming below two degrees we have to reduce emissions by 50% in the next 10 years.
The United Nations FAO says the soil has only 60 years more productivity in it.

I am now really wishing I hadn't seen the movie 'Interstellar'....
The soil has an ecosystem all of its own and messing with it has serious consequences - SHORTENING THE LONG TERM FERTILITY OF THE SOIL - so when they say it's to feed the masses - even if this WAS true now, IT WILL NOT BE IN THE FUTURE.
As well as destroying the natural balance of the soil, and run-off affecting our water, the production of commercial 'fertilizer' is an incredibly energy intensive process, with green house gas as a by-product, and as such it's continued usage should be questioned for that reason alone. NONE of it is sustainable. And it all ultimately benefits the money makers more than the people who are most likely to suffer from food shortages. (With questionable ethics connected to profits and encouraging dependence on agrochemical use.)
  Our government invests £450 squillion on agriculture, but only one university offers a degree in soil science - so who is running the show - the chemists?? And whose interests do they serve??
  We have been led to believe that organic farming is incapable of feeding the masses, when the opposite could very well be true. I am remembering a fantastic radio 4 programme on an organic sugar farmer that against all opposition was proving large scale organic effectiveness - once the soil had been allowed time to recover, and the natural defence systems were back in place.
 The other thing is; our own health is undeniably linked to the food we eat, and I mean quality, not quantity; if the soil lacks micronutrients and a healthy wad of good bacteria, our own gut ecosystems suffer, and we are already reaping the consequences of this with untold cost to the NHS. (With questionable ethics connected to profits and encouraging dependence on pharmaceutical use.)


Food

It's time to get personal.
I don't think for a minute that any decent Moslem would condone the atrocities we keep seeing, I ran out of verses trying to keep up - please, NO MORE.
To all you would be Jihadists out there - this is what you risk becoming - a monster - a child corrupting, murdering, father stealing monster.
Innocents should never have to suffer.
Who or whatever you think you are fighting against does not represent the majority, AND NEITHER DO YOU.
I belong to no camp whatsoever, well maybe Mother Earth, the Laws of Nature, and I am a woman.
Does that make me a lesser person than you? No, not by a long shot.
I don't particularly like my government, but all this killing is SO wrong and senseless on so many levels.
I'll try to change things for the better, by song if I have to.
I believe in the good in people's hearts that exists despite religion, even Jihadi John, had a heart once. 

Dear John

So excited about the final Hunger Games film. 
Written with my daughter Rachel's help after we read all three books together in quick succession; well done Suzanne Collins, we loved them! - Gotta love the films too!!
- After all, there are worse games to play...

Written following the 2011 Tsunami/Earthquake in Japan, when the immediate wreckage of lives, homes, and livelihoods seemed overshadowed by the universal panic about the waves of financial uncertainty and radiation that threatened to follow; seemed to mirror so many issues in our lives, not least the inevitable rise in sea levels and the fragility of the pampered lives we cling to.

From The Trickle Comes A Wave

Winding Spiral Down

Seventh July 2005, on a school coach trip to the British Museum, stuck on the M40, peering over from the fly-over... stretchers being carried from the tube stations...

Free Radicals

Cheryl Hillier, singer/songwriter, climate campaigner sings 'Age of Stupid' live on the radio with Phil Catchpole... and plays Hawaiian nose guitar

Cheryl  Hillier on Wycombe Sound 87.9FM 7.12.15

'NO PAIN, NO GAIN' - New Years' resolutions; diets; quitting smoking; nobody said recovery from any addiction would be easy, but the alternative could easily be so much worse...
'SHE CALLS' - This interview followed the recent loss of one of my oldest and dearest friends, so these two very new songs, related to that.
'MOCKINGJAY' - a Hunger Games tribute. 
'SEE-SAW LOVE' - a dedication to a poorly plumber, incidentally finalist in the UK Songwriting Contest - the song, not the plumber that is!!

Cheryl Hillier

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