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Thank you for your kind words. They are much appreciated in these days of amazing anger. Just one question. We have just lost 600,000 people. Why can't we take in the people from Haiti who so need our help. I just finished taking care of my 96 year old, former WWII prisoner of war dad and the woman from Haiti who was sent by Hospice was an absolute wonder. She was a nurse in Haiti but here she could only help with showers. My dad hated to shower ( I am sure it made him feel vulnerable) and she was able to cajole him into it every time after a long battle. After 3 years she didn't come for a while and I found out that her seven year old son had lost his battle with cancer. She had been trying to hold her home life together the whole time and had never mentioned her struggle. The whole time she was helping us, she was fighting a terrible battle of her own. We need more people like her. Considering our own major losses, why can't we extend a hand to people who have never been so beaten up?

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Michael, This song is so fitting. I, too, love Jackson Browne, seeing him in concert for the first time when I was 16 back in 1972 at the Troubadour in LA (Bonnie Raitt was the opening act!) and many other times since then. His songs defined my life in the 70s and 80s and helped me through many a rough time. ‘The Pretender’ is also one of my favorites. I remember reading in a Rolling Stone interview that he said most people interpreted the line “…and we’ll fill in the missing colors in each other’s paint-by-number dreams” as being romantic but actually he meant it as a way of saying how so many people just live their lives by a pre-defined set of standards and never move forward or upward.

Thank you for never living a life of “paint-by-number” and for always getting others to think that there is always more to strive for.

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I won't be part of a revolution without dancing!

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Thank you for everything you do. You are always inspiring and loaded with information.

Joy MacKinnon

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🕊Words cannot convey how much I love and appreciate Jackson Browne. I recently had the great honor of attending his concert in Paso Robles, CA where my memory & heart-fire was Re-ignited. It’s so deep-i just have to weep. We are so fortunate to have had him and allll the R&R and Motown and Reggae and ...Michael Franti...Soul...& all the wonderful Progressive Activists like YOU, Michael...(Too many to begin to list)..& Dems like Sheldon Whitehouse &(again too many). And Spiritual thought leaders like Marianne Williamson, Oprah ...soooo Many more....soooo much to be Grateful for.

The world is having labor pains...it isn’t pretty but we have the opportunity to pull together through our shared experience and love, compassion and passion for the premise that all people are created equal.

Thank you for posting Jackson Browne and this deeply touching song. If you haven’t heard his latest—“Downhill from Everywhere”...you must... and I’m personally hooked on the cut, “A Little Soon to Say”.....and then don’t miss him on tour (sometimes he’s playing with James Taylor!)♥️

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We may not be able to make this world a better place, or be the change the world so badly needs, but in doing what we can, we will know a better place on the other side, as promised.

God Bless Michael Moore dancing us there.

Jackson Browne: For A Dancer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig6X3-9wxlI (6:34)

https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/jacksonbrowne/foradancer.html

Leonard Cohen: Dance Me To The End Of Love

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGorjBVag0I (6:09)

https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/leonardcohen/dancemetotheendoflove.html

Sting: They Dance Alone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS_bN5ECJTI (6:56)

https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/sting/theydancealone.html

John Langstaff sings the Shaker Song: Lord of the Dance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3LJgXcTayA (3:26)

https://genius.com/The-dubliners-lord-of-the-dance-lyrics

Dance On

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At age 76 this touches my heart. It touches my soul. We must go out and touch the world. We must start at home, America!

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Jackson Browne is a favorite of mine as well. College roommate turned me on to him in the mid-seventies. Loved "fountain of sorrow" and still listen to it loud! Great poet and in-tune with society at the time. I saw him for the first time in 1978. Keep putting out your thoughts, Mike. Sometimes your words seem to be the only thing that gives me hope in this country.

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I love everything you say, write, send, but I was disappointed today to see that to listen to your post of Jackson Browne, I had to join Spotify. As a songwriter, who receives less than .01% of $.01/listen, I do not subscribe to Spotify (or any of the other streaming services). Perhaps musicians as famous as JB get substantial payments, but as an independent full-time working musician, what we receive from these streaming services is just plain sad and an insult.

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I have been playing Jackson more and more lately. Such great lyrics - and so insightful in ways I may have missed or forgotten.

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Sorry for the typos. Is not present...Jackson is a beautiful person besides being a great singer/songwriter/musician.

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Michael Maid is fantastic - thanks for the recommendation. I think you are are motivating force that is honest about the dire situation we find ourselves in but at the same time prod and provoke, encourage and uplift@ our souls and minds to protect our democracy.

I’m sure you never imagined how important your leadership would be. Don’t dare stop now.

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I lived in Echo Park, very near Highland Park and the stomping grounds of the legendary Jackson Brown. Wonderful.

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For a beautiful song about entering winter, try Judy Collins's "The Fallow Way" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7JMosP0NbU

(and also Joni Mitchell's "Urge for Going" of course)

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Thank you Michael for all that you do for humanity. You are indeed a beautiful soul.

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Nice. Like you’re talking to me

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