Jefferson Starship - Miracles (RIP Marty Balin)

"I know love is the answer (Yes, it is)
Keeps holding this world together, yeah
Ain't nothing better 
Ain't nothing better (Nothing's better)
And all the answers to our prayers"

Not only is this song so beautiful, it holds so true, and especially today. The world collectively, has been going through very difficult times, and many parts, such as the war torn countries, going through things, we cannot even begin to realize.

Now, the entire world, together, is facing the impacts, in many different ways, of the Covid-19 Virus. Many are spending time at home, and hopefully, I can reach out to some of you, by posting some amazing music, to help get us through.

The very first lines written are my favorite lines from this song, "Miracles." Now, is the time for us to believe in miracles, and know that we will get through this crisis together, and stronger and better than ever.

Let us hope, that that, will be the outcome of the Covid-19 Pandemic. 

Sending my love to all of you out there and especially to Italy! I love you Italy, you are my biggest fans! Sending you so much love and healing...

Maria Joan Juarez Hidalgo Beam (Boheme)

One Of The Sexiest Songs Ever: Marvin Gaye - "Let's Get It On"

Just thought I would publish another video of the song ¨Let´s Get it On." It is great. And, from "Soul Train," the souuuuullllll traaaaaiiiinnnnn! Used to love watching it every Saturday!

ENJOY!!!

Lets get it on - Marvin Gaye TKV

And, Marvin Gaye, comes through once again! Now, this is a sexy song as well. Marvin Gaye was the King of Sexy songs. 


So, if you are feeling a bit down and isolated, listen to Marvin and he will have you feeling good in no time.

The 70´s was such a great era! All that great disco music and dancing...nothing got better than that!

Great peace and love to all,

Maria Joan Juarez Hidalgo Beam (Boheme)

Trump’s Approval Rating Moves Up During Crisis!

Jimmy Dore, just nails it on the head with this segment. Straight on the head!!! I don't need to say much, because he says it all.


I don't know how anyone, anyone can stay true BLUE, any longer. Blue, meaning a steadfast, die-hard Democrat. It baffles me, and I don't mean any offense to those of you who are, I am simply stating I don't understand it.


My BLUE days, have been long over, and they certainly are not RED, Republican neither. Two of the greatest regrets, that I made, and Jimmy makes a statement regarding this. 

One, was voting for Al Gore in the 2000 US Presidential elections. I truly wanted to vote for Green Party Candidate, Ralph Nadar, but at the last moment, that voice came into my head..."casting my vote for Ralph means one less vote to defeat George W. Bush."


The second, was when I voted for, against all of my intense instincts, Barack Obama in the 2012 US Presidential elections. At this time I was vehemently opposed, to the Democratic Party, and had truly discovered, the mask that Barack Obama had been wearing. Yet, I still voted for the man, rather, than voting Green. 


I didn't want Mitt Romney, although, after reflection, he most likely would have made a better President. But, the fact is, I voted for the lesser of two evils, rather than voting with my conscious. That is something, I live with forever.


Anyhow, just thought I would share this for, as I started out, Jimmy Dore, nails it on the head.

Great peace and love to all,

Maria Joan Juarez Hidalgo Beam (Boheme)

COVID-19 Drops Air Pollution & Autism Awareness Month

Tyrell Ventura of, "Watching the Hawks," on RT America, does an excellent job at bringing out some positives of the Covid-19. One, being, a drop in air pollution and pollution in general. According to the World Health Organization, 8.8 million deaths annually can be attributed to air pollution related causes. 8.8 million! That is a staggering number and far more fatalities than the Covid-19 will cause.



He points out that reducing our normal human activities, such as driving, is really helping to bring down pollution levels in Asia and in Europe. 



I feel, people, ought be most alarmed, at the death rate from air pollution alone. After the greater part of the Covid-19 finally slows down, it would be a very good time, to reflect, on how we can continue, to bring pollution, overall lower and lower.



Reflection, during a time of panic and isolation for many, is something that I think the entire world, could benefit from. Reflection, of our own selves and the part we play in the world and how we can play a better part. Reflection, of just what kind of world we are living in and that it truly could be a better world for all.



He also brighten up with how many people are dealing with the isolation, through music and song. He talks about a great victory for the Lakota Tribe and the DAPL Pipeline, and autism.



Tyrell, for me, is a man of deep compassion and dignity, and he reflects that so much, in the episode of ¨Watching the Hawks.¨

Marvin Gaye - Sexual Healing

We need to switch it up here! With the Covid-19 going on and dominating the world news and keeping people at home, well, it is time for some Marvin Gaye!!! 


GIVE US THAT SEXUAL HEALING....AAAAHOOOO!!!


Thank you Marvin for making the sexiest song ever, ever!!!


Sending love and peace to all, especially the countries hardest hit with the Corona Virus.


Maria Joan Juarez Hidalgo Beam


P.S. Be sure to take Marvin´s advice  ;)

The Archies- A Summer Prayer for Peace

I somehow stumbled upon this song, that I had never heard before, but somehow seems appropriate for my writing, "Beam the Light Be the Change...?"

Of course, when listen, you will realize that the numbers have changed greatly since this song first came out in the 1960´s. We are now in the over six billion in population, but the message still holds true. Enjoy.

Beam the Light Be the Change...?

I founded, my blog, beamthelightbethechange, with the premise of, "if I shine the light, there will be change." As you can see by the name of my blog, my last name is used, Beam. I wanted to be a beam of light, to help usher in light, and shed truth, and thus bring change.

I truly believed in this. I truly believed in the great power of light, love, and truth. Now, I am not so sure. Yes, I still believe strongly in light, love, and truth, but shedding it, expressing it, and living it, has begun to leave me in a state of jadement. 

I believed that everyone has good in them, and that, everyone can change if they wish. Yet, after nearly 60 years of being on this planet, reality is hitting me in the face. 

I've lived through some of the most tumultuous times, in one of the most tumultuous places of change, the San Francisco Bay Area, during the 1960´s. The era of "free love, the "hippie movement (I was a hippie myself), the antiwar movement, civil rights movement, gay rights movement, the American Indian take over of Alcatraz Island in San Francisco, the Farm Workers movement with leader Cesar Chavez, and so much more.

I would like to note, that the part of the San Francisco Bay Area, that I was born and raised in, was the East Bay. The East Bay was rather different than other parts that surrounded the beautiful San Francisco Bay. We were not the "affluent," part of the Bay Area. It was upper, middle, and lower middle class, to the very poor. We had Oakland, the birthplace of the infamous Black Panthers. A group I highly admired and admire. You had to be a little bit tougher to be an East Bay person, that is if you were a part of the movements, a person of color, and the family of middle to lower middle class, and of course, of the poor.

During the sixties, we as a country, experienced the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Robert Kennedy. All so very intense and so very tragic. 

As a nation, we also, had the Vietnam War waging, along with the aforementioned events; the antiwar movement, the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, the American Indian Movement, the Cold War, and a great shift in politics was beginning to emerge, beginning with the assassination of our President, John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

All of these events had a great impact in shaping the person that I am today, as well as my father. He was a great influence upon who I am, being a top Union Labor Leader, a Korean War Veteran, and a man with high ethical values. Watching my father in action, made me believe in the good in people, even through the times that we lived in.

Today, I am feeling rather weary with the state of the world, and the state of humanity. All of my life, beginning, at a very young age, I always did something to be involved, for the collective good, for the world. From filling my piggy banks that I would buy in Tijuana, México to buy toys for the poor during Christmas, to volunteering for Special Olympics, to taking my sons to "Clean the Beach Days", to attending many a march and protest in San Francisco for various causes, to attending forums and lectures regarding local and world events, to my writings in my blog, etc. etc.

I am uncertain, that shining the light, is bringing about much change. I go against the grain, that is for certain, and there are so many, who believe that my truth is rather insane. I honestly do not care what people think of me, nor of what I believe, for in my heart and in my soul, I know my truth. 

I hold, many socialistic values, bordering on communistic values. I abhor selfishness, greed, lying, and in burring one's head into the sand, to war, injustice, poverty, privilege, privatization, to the stock market, to politics, and of all its dirty realities. 

My world has been affected by other peoples bad actions, my relationships, my health, and my overall happiness in life. Yet, I find a way to make through this world without holding blame and keeping my head high for I know who I am.

I am unable to speak to my own children, because, they belong to an entity of the United States, that commits some of the most serious crimes on earth, the United States Military. My beliefs, my past actions, my writings, prohibit me from having a relation with them.

I have lost the love of my life, not only due to lies, deception, and deceit by others, but also, because of the filthy drug war in México, that the United States government, not only began, but also funds with money and arms. A war that has turned a lovely and peaceful country into a war zone in many of its states and towns, Many people have been killed, have disappeared, and live with death and fear daily. (I must note, that México is still a beautiful country, that has a rich and amazing culture, but I also see, sadly, its dark side as well.)

I know that there is still good out there and that there are still many a good people, but they are rarer to encounter in these days. Even with friends, with family, it can be a very lonely world, if you are in need. 

I never imagined, that I would become to feel, the way that I feel, in what all that I have expressed. I certainly am not attempting to bear my pessimism to bring you, my wonderful readers, down. I am bearing my pessimism, and my great sadness, and disappointment, because I need to clear it from my heart, from my soul, and from my mind. 

I will continue to write and hopefully, I will return to that person, who was so optimistic about humanity before. We shall see with time. It is going to take you, to make the changes that we need in this world today. It is going to take you and it is going to take me. I am battle weary, but I will continue, to BEAM THE LIGHT AND BE THE CHANGE. 

I thank you with all of my heart for reading and for allowing me to bear my sentiments and my soul. 

With great love always,

Maria Joan Juarez Hidalgo Beam

Musical Selection: The Archies, "Summer Prayer for Peace"

Bleeding Heart | Original Song

A heart can bleed for many a reason. From, losing the one you love, from feelings of being alone, from being disconnected from one's children, from illness, from being misunderstood, for feeling forgotten, for the pain of the world...

I stumbled upon this beautiful song by an unknown artist. It is lovely and it is song from a bleeding heart...

And So The Blood Still Flows...

...deep red straight from the heart...

The blood that I feel flowing from my heart is hot, hot as lava...

From me it runs as a river from a very broken part...

No one can understand what it is that I feel...

Know what it is that I experience...

So to protect my heart I desire to put up plates of steel...

I have lived a life with a full and open heart...

Feeling love, feeling joy, feeling pain...

I don't want to feel any longer...

I want to wash all away with a downpour of tremendous rain...

I am strong and I am fragile...

And, the continuous flow of blood from my heart...

From continued disappointments, of feeling alone in the world to face things beyond your control...

It becomes far too overwhelming...

It is far too sad...

To face day after day...

I reach out and I find no hands to help lift me up...

I find my heart left unprotected and feeling abandoned...

How to stop this river of blood raging from my heart...

The answer to this I do not know...

Everyday, every single second of my life...

I try...

And yet so, the blood still flows...

I send my love to all whom read my words and whom can feel a river of blood streaming from their heart...

Maria Joan Juarez Hidalgo Beam (Boheme)

"The more you suffer the deeper grows your character, and with the deepening of your character you read the more penetratingly into the secrets of life. All great artists, all great religious leaders, and all great social reformers have come out of the intensest struggles which they fought bravely, quite frequently in tears and with bleeding hearts" ~ D.T. Suzuki

Musical Selection: Bleeding Heart (Original Song)

The Assange Story. WikiLeaks founder’s journey from whistleblowing hero ...

Just a reminder, You Tube states, RT is funded in whole or in part by the Russian Government.

Absurd, yes, to even state this.

Anyhow, just watched the documentary. It is powerful, it is profound, and it is sad. 

I feel it is powerful, for showing the courage that Julian Assange, has displayed through out his life. You learn, that at a young age, he becomes a hacker and a part of a hacker community in Melbourne, Australia. He hacked into NASA and become shocked at what he had discovered and from other sites he had hacked. 

He did not just want to be a hacker, no, once he learned horrible secrets and cover ups, he knew what he must do, expose them to the world. His conscious would not allow him to do otherwise. 

It is profound, because you truly realize the depth that Julian Assange has, he is a man of deep and great character. He has many around him while creating Wikileaks and running Wikileaks, who truly are committed and who truly care about Julian. He is profound and those who have worked for him, with him, his friends, his supporters, are of people of deep sentiments and passion. 

It is sad, well, for starters, the secrets and cover ups that he leaked. This truly shows us, what horror, and lack of compassion, that exists in this world. The complete disregard for human life. 

It is sad because you see what Julian has gone through for exposing to the world, these horrors. The lengths that governments will go to to ensure his punishment simply for exposing the truth. 

It is sad because, this world, has truly turned, into a world, of complete madness. 

This is what I have to say about this documentary/film by RT. I am sitting here writing, and still in deep contemplation about what I just watched and heard. It has affected me deeply. It has touched a part of me, that is truly, becoming incredibly, more and more disappointed, with our world of today. 

I may not be shedding tears on the outside, but I am certainly shedding them from within.

With all of the love from my heart to all of you my readers,

Maria Joan Juarez Hidalgo Beam (Boheme)

My heart will go on - Celine Dion (Letra Español/Inglés)

For my sons and for my love, all whom feel so very far away from my heart...

We Are In The Universe And The Universe Is In Us

My Big Black Hole...

...Feels so much larger than this one...

The entire center of my chest feels as if... 
It is the Black Hole in the Universe...

Some people, believe that, black holes are empty matter...

But my Black Hole, is full of matter...

Deep, very deep, and painful matter...

And, this matter burns, to the very core of my essence...

It is just there, burning, molting, and taking on a form of its own...

Many spiritual people believe, that each and every one of us, carry the universe inside of ourselves...for from the universe we came...

I believe this as well, and right now, my entire universe feels like the Black Hole...

For our chest is our center, it is from where, whom we are...

I am in pain, emotional pain, intense, real, and all encompassing...

So, what do I do with this black hole in my center...?

At this moment, I don't have that answer...

I sit with it...I cry because of the pain...I want answers to my questions...

I do not have those answers right now...

This is how I know, it is the Black Hole...

It is mystery, it is unknown, but it is there...

All I can do is await for the time...when this pain will pass...

And I will once again, feel bright and beautiful stars within my center once again...

Thank you for reading.

With great love always,

Maria Joan Juarez Hidalgo Beam (Boheme)

I will be posting two videos with this post from You Tube

"We are the Universe and the Universe is in Us"

"My heart will go on" - Celine Dion (Letra Español/Inglés)

I dedicate the song, "My Heart Will Go On," to my two sons, to my love, and to all who feel as if their center is a black hole

Marvin Gaye - What's Going On (Official Video 2019)

This is an Official Video, of the incredible song by Marvin, "What's Going On," brought up to modern days. 


This song came out during the Vietnam War and seeing it used for what is going on in today's world is awesome. 


Marvin, was so ahead of his time, and his songs of social justice were absolutely from the heart. He is famous for his love songs and his social justice songs. What an amazing man Marvin Gaye was, it was a very sad day indeed, when he was gone from this earth.

May he be resting in peace,

Maria Joan Juarez Hidalgo Beam (Boheme)

Matchbox Twenty - Overjoyed (Sub Español)(Sub English)

Es para ti amor...ojalá tu vas a escuchar la canción...y ven a mi lado.


Maria