❤️ 🎶 Rambling On with Brother Lefty Smith, S.O.B.* 🎶: Brother Lefty Tells it Like It Is -- On the Radio!

Saturday, January 25, 2014

Brother Lefty Tells it Like It Is -- On the Radio!

In a special two hour episode of "Spinning Tales From All Walks of Life", Brother Lefty Smith, S.O.B.* joins host Michael Pollitt on WMCB to share two hours of songs and stories about his journey as an Unrepentant Peacenik and Itinerant Rabblerouser.

Rambling through the terrain of an unusual childhood and his coming of age in the 60's into the world we live in today, Lefty delivers what Pollitt describes as "heart songs." His stories are full of the insights drawn from his experiences with the people encountered along the way and his devotion to the examples of Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Jesus, Buddha --and the Hippies.

Claiming "You don't have to die to go to Heaven. It's not a place, it's a quality of consciousness, a condition of the Heart," never far from a quip or chuckle about the world we live in, Lefty characterizes his music as "Hippie Folk Gospel Music". Although rusty, even stumbling through the lyrics of his own songs on occasion, the two hours fly by.

Michael has already asked him to return for more.

The show airs on the web at http://www.wmcb.net/Listen.html :

Friday, January 24 at 4-6 PM
Saturday, January 24 4-6 AM
Sunday, January 25 at 1-3 PM
Monday, January 26 at 1-3 AM

(Dates and times are USA EST)

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My Humble Take on the Real Deal

I believe that the movement for peace, economic democracy and social justice is a Spiritual Quest. No mean feat, what is called for is a True Revolution of the Heart and Mind--and it starts with each of us.

This revolution has to be Peaceful. The Hippies (and Jesus and Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. King, et al) had it right. It really is all about Peace and Love. Besides being a total drag, violence just doesn't work. It keeps our wheels spinning in fear, anger and pain. Who needs that?

Besides some hard work, I think the Revolution also calls for dancing, plenty of laughter, and some sitting around just doing nothing. (Some folks call it meditation.)

As Stephen Gaskin, proclaimed years ago:

"We're out to raise Hell--in the Bodhisattvic* sense."

Doesn't that sound like some serious fun?

(*The Bodhisattva Vow is a set of commitments made in the Mahayana Buddhist tradition. It basically says I vow to get my act together and figure it out well enough to really help out--and I ain't gonna stop until everybody is covered.

I've found that doesn't necessarily have to happen in that order. It's best to try to help out even before you have it all together! Like right now.)

-----Brother Lefty Smith, Founding S.O.B*

"I think the hippies had it right. It IS all about Peace and Love. I came to realize, though, this is easier said than done. Living a life of kindness, clarity, and compassion takes effort, discipline and patience.

I also came to realize that, contrary to what we had been led to believe in a capitalist society, "rugged individualism" is a dangerous distortion of reality. It denies that fact that we are, each of us, connected to everyone and everything else. So, Peace and Love are relational, a collective experience. None of us can really get it together independently.

So, as Mahatma Gandhi and Dr King showed the world, finding others to work with, rolling up your sleeves, and engaging in non-violent political action is a freakin' no-brainer.

What else is there to do? "
--Brother Lefty