Remembering Janis Joplin's dream request

Janis Joplin would have been 79 years old today.  As I've written before, I had a dream in 2000 where I heard Janis say, "Please kiss the 21st century for me."  

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My favorite photo of Janis Joplin:

And a new favorite that I've never seen before today:

"I'm one of those regular weird people."

-- Janis Joplin

Remembering Janis' 70th birthday today on Martin Luther King weekend / Musica universalis

Interesting how Janis Joplin's birthday and Martin Luther King weekend coincide.  I can picture Janis as a beautiful and wise 70-year-old woman, free of the drugs and alcohol that took her life and bright spirit from us in 1970.

I love hearing the young people singing their songs as well as the songs we first heard so long ago.

Martin Luther King would have been 84 on January 15.  I can picture him, too, a vital spiritual leader with so much life ahead of him and ten years younger than Nelson Mandela is today.



And then I came across this to complete my meditation for today.