How The World Perceives You Is Largely

I Feel We Are So Blessed To Live In A Country Where We Enjoy So Many Rights That Other Countries Cannot Even Begin To Imagine. However, It Terrifies Me That We Seem To Have Lost Touch With Our Connection To The Earth. I Am Concerned That We Have Risen To Such Heights Of Arrogance In Our Refusal To Acknowledge That Our Earth Is Rapidly Changing In Ways That Might Affect Us Catastrophically But Instead, We Hold Steadfast To Our Belief That Nothing Can Happen To Us As A People.

I Find A Lot Of Joy Just Going Out And Playing For People.

It Wasn't Until I Moved To Nashville That I Realized What An Amazing Community It Is. It's The Thing I've Been Missing My Whole Career, The Feeling Of Being Able To Sit Around With A Guitar And Have People Know Each Other's Songs And Know Songs From People Who've Influenced All Of Us. When I Moved Here Pretty Early On Vince Gill Started Calling Me To Do Guitar Pulls, And I Thought, Gosh, This Is Just Like Heaven On Earth Down Here.

Every Night On The Stop Global Warming College Tour, Laurie And I Would Tell These Great Young People That They Have The Power To Do Anything They Want. That We All Have The Power To Create A Movement For Change. That The Best Part Of Ourselves Is The Part That Rises Up Instinctively From Compassion.

In A Nutshell, This United Nations Non-profit Organization [world Food Programme] Feeds Millions Of Starving Children At Schools In Third World Countries As An Incentive For Them To Attend School, Which In Turn Might Better Their Futures. They Do So Much More But I Was So Struck By This Story.