Pressing on:

Welcome to the new world. I am glad you made it. The last few weeks have surely been an adult dose. I hope you are doing alright and feeling slightly better. For me, the last weeks have been filled with some very huge reassessments after a few good-byes to old friends lost in the World Trade Center Attacks. I grew up in the New York City suburb of Rye, NY and attended high school in New Rochelle, New York. I performed up and down the Metro North Train Line (many times at a venue right at the train station) and often in New York City on and off for the past 13 years. Because of this, I knew I was bound to know a few of those lost. I did, but none of the news wasn't shocking or numbing. Every single life lost has been an unmitigated tragedy that screams for answers. Answers to the questions about how it could happen. Why fate chooses some? Rectifying for the uselessness of it all. The waste of it all.

What now? What about now?

What I see is a very true and real sense of change in the air. Change for good. Not just lipservice, but action. A new plan is afoot. A new human scheme. There truly is a new movement at work, a battle cry to "unite the tribes" and do for others. Or, at the very least, to consider others.

I saw it at the World Hunger Year Benefit at The Hudson River Museum. There was a celebratory feeling of the new possibilities. The turnout was heartwarming, the venue beautiful, the music inspiring. Money was raised, friendships were formed and big laughs were had in the process. In short, everybody won. A sincere thank you to everyone who made the effort to come. Thank you. I can't wait to do it again. You know I will let you know when the time comes.

Next, The Benefit for The Restaurant Workers Relief Fund/ AMERICAN RED CROSS at the World Famous Cellar Bar in Larchmont, NY on FRIDAY NIGHT, OCTOBER 5th 2001 at 9:00pm. Please click here for info: here.


Ok, Sermon over. Go and light out for the new territory.

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