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In music workshops, motivational talks, jam sessions and performances, U.S. rapper Wordsmith powerfully impacted over 1000 youth from all backgrounds with their resounding message of tolerance, reconciliation, positive self-image and respect for others. U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv arranged and supported a series of educational and inspirational workshops at Jewish and Arab schools and NGOs in Jerusalem, Jisser A-Zarka, Bat Yam, and Akko, at which the students shared their dreams, engaged in interactive master classes, and improved their English skills - all through uplifting rap music, rhythms and rhymes.
Wordsmith toured Israel as part of the State Department’s American Music Abroad program which engages with people across the world through music exchanges.
In music workshops, motivational talks, jam sessions and performances, U.S. rapper Wordsmith powerfully impacted over 1000 youth from all backgrounds with their resounding message of tolerance, reconciliation, positive self-image and respect for others. U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv arranged and supported a series of educational and inspirational workshops at Jewish and Arab schools and NGOs in Jerusalem, Jisser A-Zarka, Bat Yam, and Akko, at which the students shared their dreams, engaged in interactive master classes, and improved their English skills - all through uplifting rap music, rhythms and rhymes.
Wordsmith toured Israel as part of the State Department’s American Music Abroad program which engages with people across the world through music exchanges.
In music workshops, motivational talks, jam sessions and performances, U.S. rapper Wordsmith powerfully impacted over 1000 youth from all backgrounds with their resounding message of tolerance, reconciliation, positive self-image and respect for others. U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv arranged and supported a series of educational and inspirational workshops at Jewish and Arab schools and NGOs in Jerusalem, Jisser A-Zarka, Bat Yam, and Akko, at which the students shared their dreams, engaged in interactive master classes, and improved their English skills - all through uplifting rap music, rhythms and rhymes.
Wordsmith toured Israel as part of the State Department’s American Music Abroad program which engages with people across the world through music exchanges.
In music workshops, motivational talks, jam sessions and performances, U.S. rapper Wordsmith powerfully impacted over 1000 youth from all backgrounds with their resounding message of tolerance, reconciliation, positive self-image and respect for others. U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv arranged and supported a series of educational and inspirational workshops at Jewish and Arab schools and NGOs in Jerusalem, Jisser A-Zarka, Bat Yam, and Akko, at which the students shared their dreams, engaged in interactive master classes, and improved their English skills - all through uplifting rap music, rhythms and rhymes.
Wordsmith toured Israel as part of the State Department’s American Music Abroad program which engages with people across the world through music exchanges.
In music workshops, motivational talks, jam sessions and performances, U.S. rapper Wordsmith powerfully impacted over 1000 youth from all backgrounds with their resounding message of tolerance, reconciliation, positive self-image and respect for others. U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv arranged and supported a series of educational and inspirational workshops at Jewish and Arab schools and NGOs in Jerusalem, Jisser A-Zarka, Bat Yam, and Akko, at which the students shared their dreams, engaged in interactive master classes, and improved their English skills - all through uplifting rap music, rhythms and rhymes.
Wordsmith toured Israel as part of the State Department’s American Music Abroad program which engages with people across the world through music exchanges.
In music workshops, motivational talks, jam sessions and performances, U.S. rapper Wordsmith powerfully impacted over 1000 youth from all backgrounds with their resounding message of tolerance, reconciliation, positive self-image and respect for others. U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv arranged and supported a series of educational and inspirational workshops at Jewish and Arab schools and NGOs in Jerusalem, Jisser A-Zarka, Bat Yam, and Akko, at which the students shared their dreams, engaged in interactive master classes, and improved their English skills - all through uplifting rap music, rhythms and rhymes.
Wordsmith toured Israel as part of the State Department’s American Music Abroad program which engages with people across the world through music exchanges.
In music workshops, motivational talks, jam sessions and performances, U.S. rapper Wordsmith powerfully impacted over 1000 youth from all backgrounds with their resounding message of tolerance, reconciliation, positive self-image and respect for others. U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv arranged and supported a series of educational and inspirational workshops at Jewish and Arab schools and NGOs in Jerusalem, Jisser A-Zarka, Bat Yam, and Akko, at which the students shared their dreams, engaged in interactive master classes, and improved their English skills - all through uplifting rap music, rhythms and rhymes.
Wordsmith toured Israel as part of the State Department’s American Music Abroad program which engages with people across the world through music exchanges.
In music workshops, motivational talks, jam sessions and performances, U.S. rapper Wordsmith powerfully impacted over 1000 youth from all backgrounds with their resounding message of tolerance, reconciliation, positive self-image and respect for others. U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv arranged and supported a series of educational and inspirational workshops at Jewish and Arab schools and NGOs in Jerusalem, Jisser A-Zarka, Bat Yam, and Akko, at which the students shared their dreams, engaged in interactive master classes, and improved their English skills - all through uplifting rap music, rhythms and rhymes.
Wordsmith toured Israel as part of the State Department’s American Music Abroad program which engages with people across the world through music exchanges.
Leading U.S. rapper Wordsmith joined forces with the Israeli Jewish-Arab rap band “System Ali” for an extremely energetic and uplifting “Rap for Humanity” to honor the memory and the legacy of the U.S. journalist and musician Daniel Pearl, who was killed by terrorists in 2002. Over 550 Jewish and Arab youth from the city of Akko and from the entire Northern region of Israel couldn’t stop dancing and singing together, demonstrating that music is the universal language that brings people of different cultures together and promotes “Harmony for Humanity” - the true legacy of Daniel Pearl. The U.S. Embassy in Israel coordinated Wordsmith’s visit to Israel as a U.S. cultural ambassador sponsored by the U.S. State Department’s “American Music Abroad” program.
Leading U.S. rapper Wordsmith joined forces with the Israeli Jewish-Arab rap band “System Ali” for an extremely energetic and uplifting “Rap for Humanity” to honor the memory and the legacy of the U.S. journalist and musician Daniel Pearl, who was killed by terrorists in 2002. Over 550 Jewish and Arab youth from the city of Akko and from the entire Northern region of Israel couldn’t stop dancing and singing together, demonstrating that music is the universal language that brings people of different cultures together and promotes “Harmony for Humanity” - the true legacy of Daniel Pearl. The U.S. Embassy in Israel coordinated Wordsmith’s visit to Israel as a U.S. cultural ambassador sponsored by the U.S. State Department’s “American Music Abroad” program.
Leading U.S. rapper Wordsmith joined forces with the Israeli Jewish-Arab rap band “System Ali” for an extremely energetic and uplifting “Rap for Humanity” to honor the memory and the legacy of the U.S. journalist and musician Daniel Pearl, who was killed by terrorists in 2002. Over 550 Jewish and Arab youth from the city of Akko and from the entire Northern region of Israel couldn’t stop dancing and singing together, demonstrating that music is the universal language that brings people of different cultures together and promotes “Harmony for Humanity” - the true legacy of Daniel Pearl. The U.S. Embassy in Israel coordinated Wordsmith’s visit to Israel as a U.S. cultural ambassador sponsored by the U.S. State Department’s “American Music Abroad” program.
Leading U.S. rapper Wordsmith joined forces with the Israeli Jewish-Arab rap band “System Ali” for an extremely energetic and uplifting “Rap for Humanity” to honor the memory and the legacy of the U.S. journalist and musician Daniel Pearl, who was killed by terrorists in 2002. Over 550 Jewish and Arab youth from the city of Akko and from the entire Northern region of Israel couldn’t stop dancing and singing together, demonstrating that music is the universal language that brings people of different cultures together and promotes “Harmony for Humanity” - the true legacy of Daniel Pearl. The U.S. Embassy in Israel coordinated Wordsmith’s visit to Israel as a U.S. cultural ambassador sponsored by the U.S. State Department’s “American Music Abroad” program.
Leading U.S. rapper Wordsmith joined forces with the Israeli Jewish-Arab rap band “System Ali” for an extremely energetic and uplifting “Rap for Humanity” to honor the memory and the legacy of the U.S. journalist and musician Daniel Pearl, who was killed by terrorists in 2002. Over 550 Jewish and Arab youth from the city of Akko and from the entire Northern region of Israel couldn’t stop dancing and singing together, demonstrating that music is the universal language that brings people of different cultures together and promotes “Harmony for Humanity” - the true legacy of Daniel Pearl. The U.S. Embassy in Israel coordinated Wordsmith’s visit to Israel as a U.S. cultural ambassador sponsored by the U.S. State Department’s “American Music Abroad” program.
Leading U.S. rapper Wordsmith joined forces with the Israeli Jewish-Arab rap band “System Ali” for an extremely energetic and uplifting “Rap for Humanity” to honor the memory and the legacy of the U.S. journalist and musician Daniel Pearl, who was killed by terrorists in 2002. Over 550 Jewish and Arab youth from the city of Akko and from the entire Northern region of Israel couldn’t stop dancing and singing together, demonstrating that music is the universal language that brings people of different cultures together and promotes “Harmony for Humanity” - the true legacy of Daniel Pearl. The U.S. Embassy in Israel coordinated Wordsmith’s visit to Israel as a U.S. cultural ambassador sponsored by the U.S. State Department’s “American Music Abroad” program.
Leading U.S. rapper Wordsmith joined forces with the Israeli Jewish-Arab rap band “System Ali” for an extremely energetic and uplifting “Rap for Humanity” to honor the memory and the legacy of the U.S. journalist and musician Daniel Pearl, who was killed by terrorists in 2002. Over 550 Jewish and Arab youth from the city of Akko and from the entire Northern region of Israel couldn’t stop dancing and singing together, demonstrating that music is the universal language that brings people of different cultures together and promotes “Harmony for Humanity” - the true legacy of Daniel Pearl. The U.S. Embassy in Israel coordinated Wordsmith’s visit to Israel as a U.S. cultural ambassador sponsored by the U.S. State Department’s “American Music Abroad” program.
Leading U.S. rapper Wordsmith joined forces with the Israeli Jewish-Arab rap band “System Ali” for an extremely energetic and uplifting “Rap for Humanity” to honor the memory and the legacy of the U.S. journalist and musician Daniel Pearl, who was killed by terrorists in 2002. Over 550 Jewish and Arab youth from the city of Akko and from the entire Northern region of Israel couldn’t stop dancing and singing together, demonstrating that music is the universal language that brings people of different cultures together and promotes “Harmony for Humanity” - the true legacy of Daniel Pearl. The U.S. Embassy in Israel coordinated Wordsmith’s visit to Israel as a U.S. cultural ambassador sponsored by the U.S. State Department’s “American Music Abroad” program.
Leading U.S. rapper Wordsmith joined forces with the Israeli Jewish-Arab rap band “System Ali” for an extremely energetic and uplifting “Rap for Humanity” to honor the memory and the legacy of the U.S. journalist and musician Daniel Pearl, who was killed by terrorists in 2002. Over 550 Jewish and Arab youth from the city of Akko and from the entire Northern region of Israel couldn’t stop dancing and singing together, demonstrating that music is the universal language that brings people of different cultures together and promotes “Harmony for Humanity” - the true legacy of Daniel Pearl. The U.S. Embassy in Israel coordinated Wordsmith’s visit to Israel as a U.S. cultural ambassador sponsored by the U.S. State Department’s “American Music Abroad” program.
Leading U.S. rapper Wordsmith joined forces with the Israeli Jewish-Arab rap band “System Ali” for an extremely energetic and uplifting “Rap for Humanity” to honor the memory and the legacy of the U.S. journalist and musician Daniel Pearl, who was killed by terrorists in 2002. Over 550 Jewish and Arab youth from the city of Akko and from the entire Northern region of Israel couldn’t stop dancing and singing together, demonstrating that music is the universal language that brings people of different cultures together and promotes “Harmony for Humanity” - the true legacy of Daniel Pearl. The U.S. Embassy in Israel coordinated Wordsmith’s visit to Israel as a U.S. cultural ambassador sponsored by the U.S. State Department’s “American Music Abroad” program.
Leading U.S. rapper Wordsmith joined forces with the Israeli Jewish-Arab rap band “System Ali” for an extremely energetic and uplifting “Rap for Humanity” to honor the memory and the legacy of the U.S. journalist and musician Daniel Pearl, who was killed by terrorists in 2002. Over 550 Jewish and Arab youth from the city of Akko and from the entire Northern region of Israel couldn’t stop dancing and singing together, demonstrating that music is the universal language that brings people of different cultures together and promotes “Harmony for Humanity” - the true legacy of Daniel Pearl. The U.S. Embassy in Israel coordinated Wordsmith’s visit to Israel as a U.S. cultural ambassador sponsored by the U.S. State Department’s “American Music Abroad” program.
Leading U.S. rapper Wordsmith joined forces with the Israeli Jewish-Arab rap band “System Ali” for an extremely energetic and uplifting “Rap for Humanity” to honor the memory and the legacy of the U.S. journalist and musician Daniel Pearl, who was killed by terrorists in 2002. Over 550 Jewish and Arab youth from the city of Akko and from the entire Northern region of Israel couldn’t stop dancing and singing together, demonstrating that music is the universal language that brings people of different cultures together and promotes “Harmony for Humanity” - the true legacy of Daniel Pearl. The U.S. Embassy in Israel coordinated Wordsmith’s visit to Israel as a U.S. cultural ambassador sponsored by the U.S. State Department’s “American Music Abroad” program.
Leading U.S. rapper Wordsmith joined forces with the Israeli Jewish-Arab rap band “System Ali” for an extremely energetic and uplifting “Rap for Humanity” to honor the memory and the legacy of the U.S. journalist and musician Daniel Pearl, who was killed by terrorists in 2002. Over 550 Jewish and Arab youth from the city of Akko and from the entire Northern region of Israel couldn’t stop dancing and singing together, demonstrating that music is the universal language that brings people of different cultures together and promotes “Harmony for Humanity” - the true legacy of Daniel Pearl. The U.S. Embassy in Israel coordinated Wordsmith’s visit to Israel as a U.S. cultural ambassador sponsored by the U.S. State Department’s “American Music Abroad” program.
Yes, I remember Adlestrop –
The name, because one afternoon
Of heat the express-train drew up there
Unwontedly. It was late June.
The steam hissed. Someone cleared his throat.
No one left and no one came
On the bare platform. What I saw
Was Adlestrop – only the name.
And willows, willow-herb, and grass,
And meadowsweet, and haycocks dry,
No whit less still and lonely fair
Than the high cloudlets in the sky.
And for that minute a blackbird sang
Close by, and round him, mistier,
Farther and farther, all the birds
Of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire.
Edward Thomas
This is an account by a woman who had a near death experience while undergoing a minor surgical procedure. She happened to be a lawyer and decided to put to use her wordsmith skills to impart what she learned in a logical understandable way, building her case as it were. She called the book "Backward" because much of what she was taught as an American Christian is backwards from what it turned out to be. Most of this I had already discerned from having a non-Christian perspective and from being queer and from being a feminist and whatever else flew in the face of Christian morality. All the punishing, damnation, going-to-hell-parts turn out to be totally manipulative fear based erroneous dogma as we always thought it was.
What was interesting was the picture she gave of what was Source (i.e. God), who we are as light beings, what we came here to do and what is the human species. What was new for me was her precise division between the soul and the human body. I have (since college and Western Philosophy class) resisted the notion that mind was separate from body, but in her cosmology the soul comes from Source having split off as a splinter from Source, in order to experience life by inhabiting the human body.
She describes the human host as a loving generous animal that has conceded to share space with these light being pieces of Source. The human host has its own personality and quirks too. Thus we are a meeting of two separate forces. The pleasure seeking animal personality, its survival needs and fear of death on the human end and on the light being end a daredevil desire to learn what it can learn while embodied and embedded in human society even at the risk of immolation, suffering or damage to the host body. This perspective makes the drama of being simultaneously human and inspired deity a perfectly understandable and fascinating dilemma.
She also emphasizes how we got it backward with how much we emphasize the importance of human beauty and form. That the body does not really matter. It is what we can do while in the body that is interesting. Of course we have to take care of the body if we are to last long enough to complete our original learning intentions, but being crippled or handicapped matters far less and has nothing to do with karma as I was taught. More with what we came here to learn. She is quite critical of how American culture has reduced society to individual survival and how separation of Church and State has thrown out with the bath water a commonly shared ideal to improve society as a whole while jacking up capitalistic competitive achievement to planet destroying levels.
She also explains how Source does not judge our actions. It is all good whether we are serial killers or saints. Source wants to experience it all. Nor do our accomplishments and achievements impress Source. Or whether we finish anything or produce amazing pinnacles of artistic expression. It turns out that what is ultimately important is how we make others feel. What kind of impression we leave. How we have helped fellow souls advance their experience and life lessons. I found this criteria to redefine success in a much more satisfying and accessible way. One that sidesteps market value and commercial achievement, stardom and other super sized criteria.
Late in the book she relates her near death experience and her journey to "the other side". She describes how she was able to manifest anything she could put into thoughts just as I've experienced in shamanic journeying, but even more real. This means that your death will feature whatever fears or visions you had about it and it will take you that much longer to get through it, but if you are an experienced soul you will better know who to proceed. And it turns out that judgement day is not performed by a judge of any sort, but by you. As you review your life you will be able to access not only your own feelings, but how other people were impacted by your deeds down to the last detail of your entire life. This thought certainly makes going through the day a different experience.
And while she was on the other side she was able to experience knowledge unfathomable by human minds including the future. What she was able to retain upon reentry includes the impact of climate change and financial collapse in America owing to the insurance industry getting tapped out. There will not, however, be nuclear war or annihilation. She speaks of how we are coming to the end of the Second Epoch, the first having decimated the human population. The transition into the Third Epoch will not be quite as bad and more humans will survive. The survivors being of two types—those whose DNA have sufficiently mutated to become a new human species and those who have accelerated their vibration by working on their own personal growth.
So there you have it something to work towards. A pithy and dense read, but well explained. A book Catherine found and shared with my mother as well. I find myself referring to it a lot as I redefine my goals going forward in terms of how I think of my resources and how I will push myself to fulfill my desires in terms of fully fleshing out my destiny in this life. And how to access these desires through my intuition while damping down my fears of financial ruin and homelessness that are prompted by the instincts germane to human survival.
Today's word is trumpery, from French tromper (to deceive). Earliest documented use: 1481.
Learn more at: wordsmith.org/words/trumpery.html
Inside a department store in Tokyo, Japan
Read more about this picture in the travel report at wordsmith.org/awad/awadmail587.html
.Assignment for an online art class at willowing.ning.com
Materials: Strathmore 300 Series Watercolor Paper, graphite pencil, Sharpie Pens, Inktense Pencils
Leading U.S. rapper Wordsmith joined forces with the Israeli Jewish-Arab rap band “System Ali” for an extremely energetic and uplifting “Rap for Humanity” to honor the memory and the legacy of the U.S. journalist and musician Daniel Pearl, who was killed by terrorists in 2002. Over 550 Jewish and Arab youth from the city of Akko and from the entire Northern region of Israel couldn’t stop dancing and singing together, demonstrating that music is the universal language that brings people of different cultures together and promotes “Harmony for Humanity” - the true legacy of Daniel Pearl. The U.S. Embassy in Israel coordinated Wordsmith’s visit to Israel as a U.S. cultural ambassador sponsored by the U.S. State Department’s “American Music Abroad” program.
Leading U.S. rapper Wordsmith joined forces with the Israeli Jewish-Arab rap band “System Ali” for an extremely energetic and uplifting “Rap for Humanity” to honor the memory and the legacy of the U.S. journalist and musician Daniel Pearl, who was killed by terrorists in 2002. Over 550 Jewish and Arab youth from the city of Akko and from the entire Northern region of Israel couldn’t stop dancing and singing together, demonstrating that music is the universal language that brings people of different cultures together and promotes “Harmony for Humanity” - the true legacy of Daniel Pearl. The U.S. Embassy in Israel coordinated Wordsmith’s visit to Israel as a U.S. cultural ambassador sponsored by the U.S. State Department’s “American Music Abroad” program.
Leading U.S. rapper Wordsmith joined forces with the Israeli Jewish-Arab rap band “System Ali” for an extremely energetic and uplifting “Rap for Humanity” to honor the memory and the legacy of the U.S. journalist and musician Daniel Pearl, who was killed by terrorists in 2002. Over 550 Jewish and Arab youth from the city of Akko and from the entire Northern region of Israel couldn’t stop dancing and singing together, demonstrating that music is the universal language that brings people of different cultures together and promotes “Harmony for Humanity” - the true legacy of Daniel Pearl. The U.S. Embassy in Israel coordinated Wordsmith’s visit to Israel as a U.S. cultural ambassador sponsored by the U.S. State Department’s “American Music Abroad” program.