Hope for Earth Day

So it's Earth Day.

We all can do our part to help return our planet to a healthy and safe environment for ourselves and for the other life forms we share this awesome planet with.

I have recently been eating organic...this not only creates more jobs for farmers in this time of recession but it also prevents chemicals and pesticides from polluting the ground. I strongly urge all of you to look into buying organic and check out sustainable farming methods and to buy from local farmers who practice these.

That being said, I think that this day should not only raise our awareness of environmental issues but of the issues that can better all of mankind. Equality, health care, education...these are all issues that are being placed on ballots around the country and we all need to educate ourselves and make decisions when voting that are fair and loving for each other and for the future of our children!

I wrote a song recently that will be on the upcoming CD...no one has heard it yet so this is a sneak preview for ya! It's a song about change, about love, about faith and about "Hope".

Enjoy!

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Run Away

Hey folks!

So yesterday I had a chance to catch up with the extremely talented and extremely busy Rebecca Norris who is producing some of the tracks on the album.

It was so nice to catch up with her, and hear what's been going on in her life, and to have some coffee (in the unusually cool weather that Southern California has thrown our way this week) around a fire pit at The Coffee Bean!

The next song that we are going to start working on together is a song that I wrote called "Run Away". It will lend itself more to the acoustic end of the musical spectrum but we both agreed, that because of the romantic references of nature and humanity in the lyric, we wanted to play around with putting some really organic ambient sounds in the song as well! I can't wait to hear how it turns out and I'll keep you all posted. I think y'all will LOVE it!

I thought I'd post the lyrics here for you all to read and include a little artwork I did inspired from the song!

Run Away

(by Val White)

Breathe in...breathe out, but don't make a sound.

I wanna hear your heart beating loud and clear.

With or without; money makes the world go 'round,

but it also brings us fear.

We must find a way to look within.

We must find a way to go where no man has ever been.

I want to run with you to the open fields, to the water.

I want to fly with you through centuries of time and space,

and make the world a better place.

And one day we will find someplace we can hide

and we'll run away.

We'll run so far away.

You move slowly across the room

like a misty fog moves across the morning.

I hold you close and I hear our hearts beating two by two.

I hear a melody forming.

We must find a way to write our love song down.

We must find a way to let the world hear this sound.

I want to run with you to the open fields, to the water.

I want to fly with you through centuries of time and space,

and make the world a better place.

And one day we will find someplace we can hide

and we'll run away.

We'll run so far away.