Everyone Deserves Music.

Met Michael Franti tonight. He was debuting his documentary film- "I Know I'm not Alone". I recommend everyone should see this film. Then he answered some questions and played us some rockin tunes. And I got to thinking about how much all of these issues are someone else's issues; they are problems that we internalize that are not ours. Byron is a place where people from all over the world come together. my friends here are from Australia, Ireland, England, Canada, Israel, France, Scotland, Turkey, etc. etc. We are different religions, different races, different languages, different cultures. We do not take issue with each other. We do not have unresolvable differences that take us to war. These are other people's issues.

My friend Tomer is 26 years old. He and the other Israeli boys have all arrived here after having served their time in the Israeli army. They have seen and done things that most of us cannot even imagine, and would probably not want to imagine either. None of them wanted to be there or do those things. Every day they too told themselves that would not cross those lines; would not fight someone else's battles. But the next month they'd be ordered to do something worse. Instructed to stand guard and follow orders.
Politics can not be a religion.
God is too big for just one religion.
The world is too big for one land without borders.
Everyone deserves music- even our worst enemies.