Fist In The Air To Amazon Staten Island!

I'm standing in my office yesterday and am stopped dead in my tracks when NPR announces the News, and a huge smile spread across my face, and the air around me I swear smelled and felt more oxygenated. And I identified that air as "returning Freedom." When our Brothers and Sisters feel better, we feel better. It's not rocket science. It also reinvigorated a feeling that has maybe been missing for most of my adult life--I was viscerally moved by an undeniable feeling of PRIDE in my fellow Americans. It felt amazing.

And that is in perfect coincidence with this Playlist showing up on Spotify I want to spoon feed all y'all Millenials and Gen.Z'ers, specifically, so you understand. It's called "90s R&B Hits (Top 100)," with a graphic that more aptly says, "90's R&B RAISED ME." And if you're here in Eastern Iowa or the Midwest, in general, and you were actually COOL--LOL--you know I'm not lyin', so it begs the question, which has been pondered aloud before on this website, "Where did they/these go?" We stop playing Music from all the parts of life, disconnecting us to ourselves and each other. I'd happily trade out a handful of the songs on this Playlist for the Hip Hop that was in my Walkman, but relatively speaking, it's accurate in its curation, and let's be frank--If you can still remember almost every word on an entire Playlist of over 100 songs you haven't heard since (fill-in-the-blank), including those e.g. you made up a dance to at your friend's house in 6th or 7th Grade, and you have to start your own Station to have it in the mix on the planet, outside your own lonely creation of the rockin' Playlists you DJ to yourself, your listening neighbors, your community from your ride, or your Power Yoga peops, because you DIY everything, as an adult, something's wrong with our collective relationship to Music and the Artists who have literally shaped our lives...

Drishti Of The Day Archived Today:

"I'm thinking that from the start of the Academy Awards, until humanity destroys its own planet, or it dies by natural course, you would never see a White person walk up on stage and hit another person, period--LOL--ever. And so, again, you're trying to put them under fire for their racism in their Awards tradition, but what have they always said about the African-American community? They're wrong, right? And, on a greater scale, our Federal Government finally pushes acts of racial lynching to the level of severity they should've been from the start. Besides George and Ahmaud, Christina Yuna Lee also came to mind in terms of those who deserve that consideration." -Amy Jin