The Grounded Futures Show, episode 22: Dreaming a Future, with carla and Uli                   Delighting  in our Friends! Uli and carla spend episode 22 delighting in pals, AKA celebrating awesome artists, storytellers, and musicians who range in ages 3 - 63.  This is an uplifting episode where they share wonderful songs, swoon over friends, and weave in other musings — including how they each find thriving in the everyday! Happy Palentines!       💫 YOU ARE LOVED💫 Show Notes: Cat: @the_invisible_museum_ ck nosun: @cknosun Grant Hoskins aka @gadzooksbazooka Jamie-Leigh Gonzales: storyloomdesign.com Uilliam’s art Julie Flett:  julieflett.com  Hari Alluri: @harialluri kitty lu bear: @fungifemme https://www.emergencyhearts.com/ Time I'm Still Here (U.S. Political Prisoner Never Forgotten version) | scott crow, Televangel, Time, David M. Williams, Dissonance | eMERGENCY heARTS "Happiness in You" by Nadya Geta "A False Awakening" by AwareNess Other Music played: Queen Aurora  Burial Music for our show by: Sour Gout The GF Show art by Robin Carrico Sound Editing by Chris Bergman Transcripts  Thanks for listening! ** Lyrics for I'm Still Here (U.S. Political Prisoner Never Forgotten version)  [scott crow, Dissonance] I'm still here These song notes are kite notes Fire blinking, spelling love in Morse code Floating between bars with messages of life boats No more pipelines, the pipe broke We melted every cage into a key until our mouths could recite hope   [Time] He said when it rains he pretends the cement is the smell of wet stone he said i want my grandkids to find fossils of prisons smelling sour  like dead bones The moon bowed to the birdsong morning I'm trying to find god in an octave I'm still exploring I mailed you libraries they threw em in the trash The warden took your freedom but couldn't shackle your laugh That's not dew, the prison grass is crying The weeds that grow through the cracks is freedom trying Birds drop seeds in the prison yard Growing gardens of hope conspiring in the dark The vines make a ladder and drape the barbwire A crow flies overhead and drops a lighter Orange reflects from her eye the image is fire The ash swirls like a galaxy the stars wink and admire He said "They will never be able to break me" Turns out that's what broke the bars I've been reflecting on that lately He said "I was dedicated to building things, not tearing them down" He said “If you can breathe you can get through anything” I'm hearing him now He said “If you can breathe you can get through anything” I'm hearing him now   [scott crow, Dissonance] I'm still here   [Herman Wallace] A defined voice They removed my whisper  From general population to maximum security I gain a voice They removed my voice from maximum security To administrative segregation My voice gave hope They removed my voice from administrative segregation To solitary confinement My voice became vibration for unity They removed by voice from solitary confinement To the supermax of Camp J And now they wish to destroy me The louder my voice The deeper they bury me I said, the louder my voice The deeper they bury me Free all political prisoners Prisoners of war Prisoners of consciousness Herman Wallace, Angola 3   [scott crow, Dissonance] I'm still here   [Time] This is for: Herman Wallace Russell Maroon Shoatz Marilyn Buck Alvaro Luna-Hernandez Iya Fulani Sunni-Ali Romaine Chip Fitzgerald Afeni Shakur Delbert Africa Safiya Asya Bukhari Richard Mafundi Lake Oscar Washington Luis Rodriguez Mondo We Langa Phil Africa Brian McCarvill Hugo Yogi Bear Pinell Geronimo Ji Jaga William Lefty Gilday Alan Berkman Eddie Hatcher Bashir Hameed Robert Hillary King Merle Africa Kuwasi Balagoon Robert Webb Tom Manning and Albert Woodfox   [scott crow] Dream of future, know your history Organize your people, fight to win