Groove

Harmony.

Family.

Groove.

Groove is the blood flow of every band. Every song. Every sound. Groove is a magical land where rhythms meet melodies, instruments meet perfection, and music meets souls. Groove is where the core of your being cries out your individuality, only to be harmonized with by others. This harmony is a soul speaking, heart pumping, deepest chasm of the spirit connection where mind, body, soul, and spirit collide.

Life Groove.

Some people have it all together. They're lives just "click", they have golden fingers and everything they touch turns into success. Their lives hit this Groove and the cylinders pump in full unison, the engine roars to life, and they soar into the skies, spreading their wings as eagles majestically.

Most of us are just Vultures.

We sneer at these people, mocking them, jealous of their success and thwarting them at every turn like a classic comic book villain, we plot their demise in secret, while putting on these pleasant faces like some sick puppet show. We just wait until they fly too close to the sun, and, like Icarus, plummet to the earth where we squeal with joy and peck at the brokenness with sharp claws and beaks.

Why can't we just let them fly?

Is it pride that leads us to lie, to make excuses for our own failures, blaming them on others? When did a man's word become worthless, and every thing of worth had to come with a legal notation? What if we saw the good in people, we looked at our failures, we cheered the success of others, and we lifted people instead of pushing them down? Maybe if we saw people as the hurting, lonely, sick, needy, crying, begging for someone to just smile at them, be real with them, sit and listen to them, encourage them...

Maybe the world could be a better place.

Live, Love, Verse,

J. Beatnik