Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - Happy Birthday - Stevie Wonder

There was a time when this wondrous human being walked this earth. He was a great inspiration for so many. He still remains an inspiration. 

Dr. King still lives, he lives in the hearts of many and he can continue to inspire us to do our part to make this world better for all. 

Let us keep shining the light of the many words and messages that Martin Luther King Jr. left for us...a beautiful soul who walked this earth for a short time, but what a powerful life it was. 

Bless you Dr. King

Maria Juarez Joan Hidalgo Beam (Boheme)

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly." 

—"Letter from Birmingham Jail," April 16, 1963

"Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope."

—"Letter from Birmingham Jail," April 16, 1963

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that." 

—Strength to Love, 1963

"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant." 

—Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, Oslo, Norway, 1964

“The time is always right to do what is right.” 

—Oberlin College commencement speech, 1965

“Be a bush if you can't be a tree. If you can't be a highway, just be a trail. If you can't be a sun, be a star. For it isn't by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are.” 

—Speech before a group of students at Barratt Junior High School in Philadelphia, October 26, 1967

All quotes are courtesy of: https://www.biography.com/news/martin-luther-king-famous-quotes

Love Train feat. Jason Mraz, Chad Smith, Yo-Yo Ma | Turnaround Arts | Pl...2022 Let's Begin Anew!!!

This has got to be one of the best songs, "Love Train" by the O´Jays, that came out, of the 70´s Disco Era, and there are sooooo many!!! This one touches the heart, because, it is a message, that we REALLY need to hear today!!!  LOUD AND CLEAR!!!

This version, I happened to find, while looking for a song of inspiration to share with everyone, "all around the world," to begin the New Year, with hope and inspiration. And, this one is great! I love it! You want to sing and dance and "jump on the LOVE TRAIN."

SO LET´S DO IT...LET´S JUMP ON!!! Let's ride that love train all over the world. The amazing thing is, that one can ride this special train , no matter where you are. In your kitchen, in you living room, at work, walking down the street, in your car, waiting for a bus...for this train you see, is a "state of mind, a state of heart."

It is rather quite simple, you connect to yourself, deep within. your own heart, and then you shine, that light out, to ALL OF THE WORLD. They will feel it. It doesn't matter where, China, Africa, Palestine, Europe, South America, Central America, Mexico, down Australia way...ALL OVER THE WORLD!!! SHINE THAT LOVE LIGHT FROM YOUR HEART!

We can no longer afford to be a divided world. We can no longer afford the price of war and anger, guns and violence, greed and hatred. NO SIDES...JUST ONE WORLD! 

No walls, no fear, just love. Let the virus go...it is controlling the minds of the world. I feel, because it hit, the Western World so hard, that, it finally felt, what others have been living through, for far too long. We fear a virus, when others, have been living through, extreme hunger, poverty, war, devastation, no shelter, no home, I mean, come on. We really, need to wake up. 

"Wake up, get on board, and ride that love train...PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD"!!!

SENDING YOU GREAT PEACE AND LOVE FROM MY HEART,

Maria Joan Juarez Hidalgo Beam (Boheme)

John Lennon ~ So this is Christmas.

I thought this video of the song was so precious, so I wanted to share this one as well.

Maria 

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This is a Christmas card I would like to send to all in the world. May we truly, truly, have goodness, goodwill to all, peace, and most of all love for EVERYONE...EVERYONE.

A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR,

Maria Joan Juarez Hidalgo Beam (Boheme)

Carol for Another Christmas (1964) - Rod Serling's retelling of A Christ...

Rod Sterling was certainly a man, well ahead of, his time. This retelling of the most infamous Charles Dicken´s classic "A Christmas Carol," is chilling and amazingly spot on, as to where we are, this very moment in the state of the world.

It may seems very slow moving to many, and dull and outdated in some of parts, but if you truly watch it and stick with it, you will find that we he predicated, most, has already come to pass.

And, this was made people, well before Trump was event thought of, yet the world still turned out, well, the United States, especially, turned out with the same frame of mind.

It is not just people who have a mind-set of Trump, it is also for people who think that they are so "liberal minded, " yet in reality, are just as closed minded. There are still "enemies", in their minds as well.

Why do we even have to have enemies at all. It is a creation that keeps us bound as those who want you to believe conservatively or liberally want to keep you in a state of...a perpetual enemy and the "other."

And, as long as we have that, how can we ever be truly free. Truly have peace on earth and goodwill to men. This question I challenge to all.

In peace and love in keeping with the true season,

Maria Joan Juarez Hidalgo Beam (Boheme)

The John F. Kennedy Song

This is the only song I could find about John F. Kennedy and I think it is a really great remembrance and honoring of him.

So, I would like to share this with you all. I hope you learn more about this amazing man that walked upon our earth for far too many short years. 

I lives on in the memories of so many...

Bless you JFK,

Maria Joan Juarez Hidalgo Beam (Boheme)

"President Kennedy has died"/A Day I Shall Never Forget...

The day the President died. It was November 22, 1963. I was two weeks from turning three years old. It must be my first memory as a child, and I remember it, ever so well.

I was the only one home with my mother, and I was sitting on her lap while we were watching President Kennedy and his wife Jacquelyn Kennedy, on that fateful day driving through Dallas, Texas. 

My mother loved President Kennedy, and even though I was such a small girl, she instilled that great love into me as well. I loved being on her lap while we were watching this on the television set. For, some reason, I ran to my room, I think to grab my favorite stuffed animal. 

It was durning this very short time, that I heard my mother yell out and then into a deep, deep sobbing screaming, "the President has been shot, the President has been shot!" I ran so quickly to be with her and found her inconsolable on her knees on the floor.

Those very short moments, have never left my memory since. The intenseness of what my mother felt was so powerful that it remains with me to this day, and I will be 61 next month. I still get quivers in my heart and tears in my eyes remembering.

I may have been so young, but that moment, was one of the most powerful moments in history. It is recorded in my brain and burned upon my heart...it is a day that will live forever...for a man whose legend, will also, live forever.

For you mom, for teaching me to love such a great man.

Robert Fitzgerald Kennedy

Maria Joan Juarez Hidalgo Beam (Boheme)