All the good and the bad
At noon we went to Sound Cafe to hear Mark Clark’s Bent But Not Broken played live with Paul Sanchez and Margie Perez sitting in – all proceeds of the sale of this song go to Silence is Violence, an organization that is grassroots and fundamental to trying to heal and help this city’s soul. T has been taking Tin to the Music Clinic there on Tuesday nights and so when the band was organizing on stage, they already were familiar with Tin, but they just didn’t know that he is a star. He took to the stage with his toy trumpet and studied moves (countless hours in front of the mirror) and I watched him with a sense of time getting away as my little boy already seems to be who he will be – a musician, an entertainer – there is no way he won’t I thought after watching him this afternoon – he is already used to the applause and the paparrazi clicking away. Even Shamarr Allen was taken with the tiny celebrity as Shamarr took out his own iPhone and began snapping pictures.
Silence is Violence started years ago when Helen Hill was murdered and they have been getting stronger every year. Bless them and all those who serve, and Shamarr Allen and his music clinic and all the rest and Mark Clark for writing a song that captures who we are – Took One On The Chin, The Saints are Marching In, From the Quarter down to Frenchman, Bent but Not Broken.
