Do you know this gal Des'ree? This R&B singer doing her thing in the early 90's? I love her.
I love her because, in 1995, when I was on spring break from Beverly Hills high, and I was toting around Northern California looking at colleges I might go to (even though the only place I really cared about was Berkeley), I made a stop in Santa Cruz where I stayed with a friend from summer camp. While she was off in rehearsals for some kind of upcoming feminist dance performance (natch), I listened to Des'ree's album to death. I listened to it in that hippie dorm with the pretty trees and the clean air all around--listened as my day unfolds, challenged what the future holds, tried to keep my head up to the skyyyyy--and I always still associate the positive lyrics and melodies on the "I Ain't Movin'" album with the everything-is-about-to-happen feeling I felt that week, this week, 12 years ago.
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it's funny how your memories have melded into my memories. that song will always be a 'dubin getting inspired' song.
Do you know this gal Des'ree?
OK, GERT!!! Paul and Mitchell know this gal Des'ree.
Have you been going through your old journals again?
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