Thank god for music...

I love Michael Franti. I'm so glad I got to see him in concert this year. I had a wonderful time,even though I couldn't find my friends in the press.

It didn't matter really. I gave shoulder rubs to the people around me, and a few of us sat down right in the center of the crowd in front of the stage. We felt like kids, looking at a forest of legs around us, down in the secret world that adults don't even notice.

But pretty soon I was up, leaping up and down with the best of the surging crowd of happy, proud, freaky people at Bumbershoot, listening with all my heart and soul to a man who knows what he's singing/living for.

It was beautiful, he's beautiful. His dreads flying, wild grin, bare feet high in the air with every whooping jump. He had us rocking and leaping and shouting and praying.

Here's to:

Love Invincible

When I fall down, I need a helping hand.
And when I lose my head, it's cause it's always buried in the sand.
When I get stuck on myself, feelin' sorry for myself.
Will you help me grab a hold and please don't patronize my soul.
When I start to lose control, when I get irrational, when I start to get too high,
you see me come floating by, I say

Touch me in the morning sun, when I feel impossible.
Touch me in the morning sun, show me what is possible.
Touch me in the morning sun when I feel impossible, show me what is possible.
Teach me love invisible, Teach me love invincible, Teach me love invincible,
Teach me love invincible.

When you're down, you need a helping hand.
And when you lose your head, I'll help you wash away the sand.
And when you get stuck on yourself, feelin' sorry for yourself.
I will help you grab a hold and I won't patronize your soul.
When you start to lose control, when you get irrational, when you start to get too high,
I see you come floating by, I say
Touch me in the morning sun, when I feel impossible.
Touch me in the morning sun, show me what is possible.
Touch me in the morning sun when I feel impossible,
show me what is possible.
Teach me love invincible, Teach me love invincible.

When we're down, we need a helping hand.
And when we lose our heads, it's cause they're always buried in the sand.
But when we get stuck on our selves, feelin' sorry for our selves.
Will you help us grab a hold and please don't patronize our souls.
When we start to lose control, when we get irrational, when we start to get too high,
You see us come floating by, I say,

Touch us with the morning sun, when we feel impossible.
Touch us with the morning sun, show us what is possible.
Touch us in the morning sun when we feel impossible, show us what is possible.
Teach us love invincible, teach us love invisible

Teach us love invincible, hold us love invicible, share us love invincible,
be us love invincible, help us love invisible, touch us love invincible,
breathe us love invincible, sing it love invisible.