"if you want to sing out, sing out

 and if you want to be free, be free

 'cause there's a million things to be you know that there are..."

oh cat stevens. or should i say yusuf islam. :) been listening a lot to him lately. such great stuff for the heart. :)

speaking of hearts, mine is breaking for palestine. i heard on the news today that red cross/red crescent keeps finding in the rubble and desecrated villages along the gaza strip, not bodies of palestinian soldiers (which would be heartbreaking enough), but of women and children. and the few that are still alive are little children that are sitting by their mothers who are no longer living, and they are so wounded and starved that they cannot walk. schools and homes are bombed out, not army territory. and no aid is getting through to these areas. and the death toll keeps climbing.

something needs to be done. god of mercy who forgives me, forgive this and heal this land.