GET YOUR VOLUNTEER ON

As unemployment rates rise, volunteerism could too | do something for the greater good with your free time | it's a great way to get to know new organizations and do some networking too | check out GOOD Magazine's online take on WHY WE CAN...

JEFF BUCKLEY

Passed to young and took with him so much talent | check out his bio and other pleasures | he left us with 'GRACE'...thankfully



GRACE
There's the moon asking to stay
Long enough for the clouds to fly me away
Though it's my time coming, I'm not afraid, afraid to die
My fading voice sings of love,
But she cries to the clicking of time,
Of time

Wait in the fire...

And she weeps on my arm
Walking to the bright lights in sorrow
Oh drink a bit of wine we both might go tomorrow,oh my love
And the rain is falling and I believe
My time has come
It reminds me of the pain I might leave
Leave behind

Wait in the fire...

And I feel them drown my name
So easy to know and forget with this kiss
But I'm not afraid to go but it goes so slow

Wait in the fire...

KAHLIL GIBRAN

"Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do."

BOXED WATER

California usually leads the way, but the pressure is too great for our state to solve EVERY social and environmental issue...so GO MICHIGAN! | Plastic bottles are totally NOT PC | Recycling is cool | Compostable products are even better | and figuring out a way to consume water sustainably is our only choice | The idea for Boxed Water is BRILLIANT and makes me feel like my brain is cloudy | Get it in your hometown and cherish it like a cold glass of milk with a moustache.

DRAFT MODE

Green printing is no longer for the active environmentalist | if you don't already have a kitchy saying at the end of your email like:

$ please consider the environment before printing this email
$ save paper: think before you print
$ don’t print this, OK?
$ how many trees must be lost so you can print your e-mail? print responsibly
$ paper free = happy tree (my own sentiment and obvious favorite)

then feel free to do a good deed and add any of these green footers to your signature | but back to the point...you can save not only trees and paper, but INK, super expensive printer ink | here are a few tips:

$ set your printer (or print software) to Draft Mode and/or print Double-sided (yes, you can figure out which way the paper needs to go in to print on the back side of the page and put a nice little note on your printer as a reminder)
$ Inksaver software for Windows only lets you control the amount of ink your printer uses, helping you save up to 75% of your ink.
$ Greenprint software for Mac and Windows weeds out pages you don't want to print
$ add Ecofont to your list for a free typeface for Mac or PC that's designed to use as little ink as possible but is still readable

It takes a little to save alot so make a simple and mostly free choice to do just a little bit more and a little bit better than you did yesterday.

tipage provided by Ideal Bite who also provide literally green ($$) savings tips for recycling your ink cartridges.
















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PHOENIX

Check out his brand new song "1901" by the French band | their new album "Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix" releases on the 25th of May | you can download the song for free on the band's site.



1901
Counting all different ideas drifting away
Past and present they don't matter
Not if you just sort it out
Watch your moving in elliptical pattern
Think it's not what you say
What you say is way too complicated
For a minute thought I couldn't tell how to fall out

Oh It's 20 seconds till the last call
Going hey hey hey hey hey
By now, you know its easy
Like we did it all summer long
And I'll be anything you ask and more
Going hey hey hey hey hey
It's not a miracle we needed
And no I wouldn't let you think so

Falling, falling, falling, falling
Falling, falling, falling, falling

Girlfriend, you know your girlfriends drifting away
Past and present, 1855 1901
Watch them build up a material tower
Think it's not gonna stay, anyway, think it's overrated
For a minute, thought I couldn't tell how to fall out

Uh It's 20 seconds to the last call
Going hey hey hey hey hey
Lie down, you know it's easy
Like we did it all summer long
And I'll be anything you ask and more
Going hey hey hey hey hey
It's not a miracle we needed
And no, I wouldn't let you think so

Falling, falling, falling, falling
Falling, falling, falling, falling

HYPE MACHINE

There are thousands of blogs in the world wide web where people write about music they love | The Hype Machine keeps track of it all for simple analysis, consumption and discovery so its easy to shift through the mess to get the best of the best | if a post contains an MP3 link, Hype Machine makes it available to preview, but not download | if you allow the links to play from one to the next, you will be exposed to different of genres, some live songs and tunes you may have never thought you would love.

WE ARE SO SMALL

Hoping we all learned our lesson as children, I've always felt like we must share our home with plants, animals, energy...and that our egos are making it a challenge for other species to share the space with us, when in reality, we are SO SMALL compared to beautiful, floating creatures like whales | i am captivated by the voice over in this video and the well chosen music for the moment when the baby blue interacts with the crew | if you aren't already paying attention to how your actions affect our Earth...just imagine Goliath taking little David down for simply not learning his lesson.

DR. SEUSS

“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.”

RACHAEL YAMAGATA

i tend to find an artist's song i love and play it on repeat...REALLY LOUD...again and again until i know every word and every emotion has been extracted | this artist has had me hooked for over two months | i keep find her songs and falling in love with new ones...and playing them on repeat | Rachael plays the piano like a legend and sings with Mr. LaMontagne...another heart stealer | check out www.rachaelyamagata.com | i'm still sorting out how to deliver my media so excuse the unusual you tube visuals and simply listen | email me if you want clues to mp3s



COLLIDE
I’ll fascinate you for awhile
My hands in wait to please, so well
When I wake to realize, all I’d done
I’ll be breaking strings
And all you’re gonna feel
Is undone

I will not stay if you ask me to stay
Do not ask me to stay because I will not stay

Why do we always collide
Stuck on two different sides

No resignation, don’t simplify
Its not always about
Your love
What I wake up to find
All I’ve done is unkind
All you’re gonna feel is untied
Untied

Why do we always collide
Stuck on two different sides
Why do we always collide
Stuck on two different sides
Why do we always collide
Stuck on two different sides
Why do we all
Why do we all



FASTER
I can't talk to you
You think I'm lost inside my mind
You're like an old tattoo
And I know you'll fade in time

I'm not the girl you think you know
I'm not the girl you waited for
I'm not the one for you
It's just one thing left to do

Why don't you let me be?
'Cause I'm a million miles away
Why don't you set me free?
You don't treat me like you said

I won't tuck you in one last time
I'm taking back what is mine
For me, I belong to me

And I'm going faster, you're going backwards
You're gonna miss me when I'm gone
I'm going faster, I know what I'm after
I should've been after it all along

I'm going faster
I'm going faster

That's the last black eye
I hope I ever give to you
Yeah, I had a good time
But what's a girl supposed to do?

Take the pictures off the wall
They don't look like us at all
They don't look like friends
I've got new things to begin

Why don't you let me be?
'Cause I'm a million miles away
Why don't you set me free?
I belong to me

And I'm going faster, you're going backwards
You're gonna miss me when I'm gone
I hang from the ceiling, I feel what I'm feeling
I should've been feeling it all along

I'm going faster
I'm going faster

I'm going faster, you're going backwards
You're going to miss me when I'm gone
I hang from the ceiling, I feel what I'm feeling
I should've been feeling it all along

I'm going faster
I'm going faster



DUET
(feat. Ray LaMontagne)
Oh Lover, hold on
'till I come back again
For these arms are growin' tired,
And my tales are wearing thin

If you're patient I will surprise,
When you wake up i'll have come

All the angerwill settle down
And we'll go do all the things we should have done

Yes I remember what we said
As we lay down to bed
I'll be here if you will only come back home

Oh lover, i'm lost
Because the road i've chosen beckens me away

Oh lover, don't you rome
Now i'm fighting words I never thought i'd say

But I remember what we said
As we lay down to bed
I'll forgive you oh
If you just come back home

Hmmm mmmm
Hmmmm mmmm

Oh lover, I'm old
You'll be out there and be thinking just of me

And I will find you down the road
And will return back home to where we're meant to be

'cause I remember what we said
As we lay down to bed
We'll be back soon as we make history.



THE REASON WHY
I think about how it might have been
We'd spend out days travelin'
It's not that I don't understand you
It's not that I don't want to be with you
But you only wanted me
The way you wanted me

So, I will head out alone, hope for the best
And we hang our heads down
As we skip the goodbyes
And you can tell the world what you want them to hear
I've got nothing left to lose, my dear
So, I'm up for the little white lies
But you and I know the reason why
I'm gone, and you're still there
I'm gone, and you're still there
I'm gone, and you're still there

I'll buy a magazine searching for your face
From coast to coast, or where ever I find my place
I'll track you on the radio, and
I'll sign your list in a different name
But as close as I get to you
It's not the same

So, I will head out alone, hope for the best
We can pat ourselves on the back
As say that we tried
And if one of us makes it big
We can spill our regrets
And talk about how the love never dies
But you and I know the reason why
I'm gone, you're still there
I'm gone, you're still there
I'm gone, and you're still there

So, steal the show, and do your best
To cover the tracks that I have left
I wish you well and hope you find
Whatever you're looking for
The way I might've changed my mind,
But you only showed me the door

So, I will head out alone, hope for the best
We can pat ourselves on the back
And say that we tried
And if one of us makes it big
We can spill our regrets
And talk about how the love never dies
But you and I, you and I, you and I know the reason why.