This week, my friend Humphrey alerted me to a Starbucks music video where people from many countries were captured singing the song ‘All You Need is Love’ together but in their separate locations. The symbolism is one of world unity and it’s got a nice and warm feel about it. It made me consider what it’d be like to say, have a concert featuring Palestinian and Israeli performers, doing it FOR the people of both countries; or one featuring India and Pakistan….Iraqis and Americans.
This week, too, I watched the movie ‘The Day the Earth Stood Still’, where an alien force came to Earth to “save it”. You would think the aliens would be WORKING with us to save this planet. Nope. The aliens were here to destroy us - humankind - because we were destroying the planet with our ways. I found the message of this movie rather powerful - that this is not our planet alone….that the survival of the universe too depends on the survival of Earth. It’s a simplistic plot but think about it….do we really have the right to do what we want with this planet and its natural resources?
So, let’s all do our part to treat Earth (it’s NOT our planet) a lot lot better, and think about singing a song in tandem with everyone else in this world. Peace is just a deep breath and a prayer away from everyone.
Joe