Whenever terrible things happen, we all look -- consciously or automatically -- for a bright spot, a sign of hope. For me, recognizing heroism amid the fear and uncertainty is always a good antidote. As artists, we are not strangers to unexpected challenges and disappointment. Every artistic career is host to many such bumps. But when a global crisis is stealing hundreds or thousands of lives every day, it can be tough to find strength and bravery amid the rubble.
We would like to recognize just a few among the many hopeful and bright threads of heroism out there today. (btw Did you know that kudos is singular, not plural?) So we extend kudos to every medical, emergency response and caregiving person in the world, in what may be their most trying time ever............to the students and faculty and staff of Chino Hills High School in California (a real battleground against coronavirus), who surmounted the disappointment of a cancelled concert by putting together an uplifting and beautiful virtual performance of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" which we just watched on CNN........to Dr. Anthony Fauci of NIAID who has the courage to correct false statements by the President in front of microphones and the world.........to Greta Thunberg, who stood in front of the United Nations and the world and challenged leaders to grow up and wake up, to stop pretending, to get their priorities straight and begin saving the planet from extinction.........to Meg Wheeler, who is running for a state Senate seat in Massachusetts, who could have given up when coronoavirus forced her campaign away from shaking hands and knocking on doors, and back to the computer instead, but whose commitment to better education and women's rights and caring for humanity took precedence over convenience..........to everyone in our military and diplomatic services who probably wish they could be back home to protect their loved ones from dying in the pandemic, but who instead are toughing it out in harsh environments in places like Yemen and Iraq and West Africa, in the name of freedom and human rights...........to Beth Reuss of Austria, who wrote a song while quarantined and enduring huge disappointment over cancelled plans, instinctively knowing that music and poetry are sometimes the best channel for responding to calamity.......to everyone on earth who refuses to give up or to succumb.........
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We send blessings and wishes for good health and peace and joy to everyone, everywhere. The show must go on, and the music must never end.
James and the AcquaTroupe team
We would like to recognize just a few among the many hopeful and bright threads of heroism out there today. (btw Did you know that kudos is singular, not plural?) So we extend kudos to every medical, emergency response and caregiving person in the world, in what may be their most trying time ever............to the students and faculty and staff of Chino Hills High School in California (a real battleground against coronavirus), who surmounted the disappointment of a cancelled concert by putting together an uplifting and beautiful virtual performance of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" which we just watched on CNN........to Dr. Anthony Fauci of NIAID who has the courage to correct false statements by the President in front of microphones and the world.........to Greta Thunberg, who stood in front of the United Nations and the world and challenged leaders to grow up and wake up, to stop pretending, to get their priorities straight and begin saving the planet from extinction.........to Meg Wheeler, who is running for a state Senate seat in Massachusetts, who could have given up when coronoavirus forced her campaign away from shaking hands and knocking on doors, and back to the computer instead, but whose commitment to better education and women's rights and caring for humanity took precedence over convenience..........to everyone in our military and diplomatic services who probably wish they could be back home to protect their loved ones from dying in the pandemic, but who instead are toughing it out in harsh environments in places like Yemen and Iraq and West Africa, in the name of freedom and human rights...........to Beth Reuss of Austria, who wrote a song while quarantined and enduring huge disappointment over cancelled plans, instinctively knowing that music and poetry are sometimes the best channel for responding to calamity.......to everyone on earth who refuses to give up or to succumb.........
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We send blessings and wishes for good health and peace and joy to everyone, everywhere. The show must go on, and the music must never end.
James and the AcquaTroupe team
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