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May 5, 2008

"Choose your intention carefully and then practice holding your consciousness to it, so it becomes the guiding light in your life." --John Roger

Being the Change & Singing It

In this lovely and listenable new music video by singer/songwriter Kat Edmonson, intentions are set forth one-by-one, hand-scrawled and held proudly aloft on makeshift cardboard banners. A short-order cook seeks to "include everyone." A young boy whose smile betrays a missing tooth says he'll "make friends with the world." A woman kneels in her garden with a sign saying she'll "support small farms." The song's title? As Gandhi expressed before her and the Austin, Texas-based Edmonson now sings, "Be the Change That You Want to See."