Check out Mariah do what she does best at the Neighborhood Ball on Tuesday, performing “Hero” for our new president — powerful and yet understated performance.

(more…)

Wow. What an amazing day, moment and time we’re blessed to experience. There’s not muchthat I can add to the many discussions, thoughts and emotions that have been expressed today. I’ll just say, that as great as this moment is, we have not arrived, but only just begun. We’ve got A LOT of work to do, and it’s incumbent upon each one of us to fulfill our obligations to ourselves, our families and our communities.

“In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given. It must be earned. Our journey has never been one of short-cuts or settling for less. It has not been the path for the faint-hearted – for those who prefer leisure over work, or seek only the pleasures of riches and fame.

Rather, it has been the risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things – some celebrated but more often men and women obscure in their labor, who have carried us up the long, rugged path towards prosperity and freedom.

For us, they packed up their few worldly possessions and traveled across oceans in search of a new life.

For us, they toiled in sweatshops and settled the West; endured the lash of the whip and plowed the hard earth.

For us, they fought and died, in places like Concord and Gettysburg; Normandy and Khe Sahn.

Time and again these men and women struggled and sacrificed and worked till their hands were raw so that we might live a better life. They saw America as bigger than the sum of our individual ambitions; greater than all the differences of birth or wealth or faction.
(more…)

Just in time for Christmas. Buy 1, buy 5, but 10!! Support Real Artists & Real Music.

From Hidden Beach:

The Perfect Present

Dear Friends and Family –

Thank you for being a part of the Hidden Beach Family and for supporting Real Artists & Real Music…

As you may or may not know, “Yes We Can: Voices of a Grassroots Movement” is the only official musical release approved by the Barack Obama presidential campaign and is now on sale.

“Yes We Can: Voices of a Grassroots Movement” is a collector’s item featuring musicians such as Stevie Wonder, Sheryl Crow, Ozomatli, Jill Scott, John Mayer, Los Lonely Boys, Shontelle, John Legend, Lionel Richie and many more.

This season spread the positive messages of “Change” and give the gift of music to your family, friends, co-workers, neighbors and loved ones. This CD makes a great stocking stuffer, too!

Currently, we are offering a few special promotions only available at The Hidden Beach Shop.

* Gift Wrap & Send “Yes We Can” CD for $13.48 (Save 10%)
Use the coupon “GIFT” in our store to receive this discount. Specify an alternate Shipping Name & Address and we will wrap the CD and send it as a holiday gift from you to the person on the shipping address. We can also send the CD to your address.

(more…)

Photo Credit

Sam Cooke- “A Change is Gonna Come”, Ain’t That Good News, (RCA), 1964

Cold Play “High Speed”, Blue Room, (EMI), 1999

Source

What must it feel like?

To carry the hopes and dreams of so many people on your shoulders?

I can’t take credit for this one, pic or caption, but it was too powerful not to share.

Source
Good lookin’ out Nabs.