Calling all Brothers and Sisters!!
Ok, I know it's not the prettiest and best picture out there but how can one deny the ultimate innocence and unity that's naturally being veiwed here? Children as far as the eyes can see, looking at one another in an attempt to communicate through the drums, feeding into eachother, creating something as One. Allowing their innocence to flow freely through their hands with bravery in their arms and courage in their legs. It absolutely amazes me to be a part of such creations. From an adults perspective, especially one like mine, who's equipment is in there that they are playing with, expensive and prescious to me and my band members, that still didn't force our feet to their creation and abolish it in fear of breaking equipment and losing money. Instead, we stood back and gazed in pure awe as they delivered the fiercest and most pure message through music that I've been honored to experience. In the background fireworks were being blown into the sky to celebrate our freedom within this country yet as our freedoms are slowly being taken away those children made me realize in that moment that there is no freedom unless our minds are free like those of those children. Their faith is in US!! Their Moms and Dads, Uncles and Aunts, Grandmas, Papas! What an HONOR!!!
Every year as I plan the largest party of the year at my house to bring the generations together under the umbrella of love; I work my butt off for weeks on end getting the house ready for the masses, it is my labor of love. To see the children smiling and becoming friends forever, knowing that one day as they grow older together they might fall in love and have their first kiss on that day, or create a vision that will shoot them into the future of their dreams. I see the Moms, Dads, Grandmas, Papas all enjoying their children and grandchildren as if there were no evil in this world and time stood still on that day. I see people who've never met hugging and exhibiting behaviour to the untrained eye that would seem like they've been friends forever. All in all, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, fathers and mothers, we stand together on that day in the name of love. Someone said to me the day before the big party, "I believe in what you are doing here Gwen, well let me stand corrected, I believe in what God is doing here!" How true that is!! I only wish to unite us under the covering of acceptance, forgiveness, forebearance, and most of all LOVE. In the attempt to do so, my heart overflows with passion for every soul who steps foot onto my land, and through love, through YOU (my family of brothers and sisters), on that day WE will ALL be CHANGED.
