Sing Girl!
| I love this video. For years I have been a fan of Jill Scott but this video took me beyond being a fan and introduced me to her as a philosopher of the human condition. In the video she sings about a relationship between two individuals but her song interwoven with an understanding of the deeper transactions of the human cause. She sings not only to what is happening between them but she also sings to what is happening beyond them and within them as well. This is of course what Ellison called the lower frequencies and often when we are engaged in the scared art of trying to love other people the experience of loving them is conditioned and complicated by their silence, and by all the ways they have been shaped and misshaped by the |
A love that has not yet felt the need to plead its case in the presence of unrepentant ears is a love too immature to be trusted. Because at its best, that is to say because we are often at our worst relationships are complicated situations and we must be willing to endure the mystery until it has worked its way into magic. This is the love of which Jill Scott sings. It is not love at first sight nor is it the love of a wedding day high in the Everglades set forever in the bosom of the sun. She sings of a love formed in the crucible of an abiding confrontation with despair. Hers is a love made weary after years of courageous giving. It is deeper than a thousand midnights and wider than the space between your ears. Her love, and consequently her song is sung in the key of remembrance. It is real. It is broken and needs no instrumentation because its tonality is the result of what happens when hope collides with sorrow. There in the strange and tenuous musing of wanting to let go but needing to hold is where great music comes from. She sings from her soul and when the soul begins to sing the music is always acapella because the hand can never keep up with the heart.
Sing girl!
man this blog is hot to death....i love the video and the article is on point for real
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thanks for the kind and encouraging words. i hope that you find increasing value in our future articles as well. keep shining like the sun, the world needs you.
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Your expressions of wisdom are truly inspiring and moving. Life is given to us as an opportunity to construct, support, and learn the value and purpose of existence with other human beings. I think this article connects with your thesis on the importance of smiling and knowing who you are. No one can obtain what they’ve never given you initially. Thanks for your article!
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thank you iris for your keen observations. the questions is always life isn't it, because even when the subject changes the questions often remain the same. i'm a big fan of people who know how to communicate who they are because they give the rest of us permission to be ourselves as well. thanks again.
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