to my faithful readers on this hot spring day

Update for freedom-- empowerment and friendship...on the theme of women in the music industry as it is currently in 2014.

Applying concepts such as friendliness toward yourself will take time for folks like Miley. This does not mean she will never master the act of right thought and right speech, but I do understand that if she feels her career hinges upon behaving in a way that shocks people and does not uplift them, she will only be her own worst enemy. And that most certainly is not her fault. At all. she like so many of us were born and raised in the clutches of very sick American culture, and this sickness infiltrated our music inevitably. and we are having growing pains because we all have to live with our actions, live with our treatment of ourselves, our bodies, each other, our lives, our work. what is our work? what are we here to do?

This is a great turning point for both Artists, and for American popular music in general.

Miley and Sinead and Amanda Bynes and Lauryn Hill and countless others who have been persecuted for whatever perceived deviant behavior or unpopular opinions deserve to be in control of their labor and should be taxed according only to the extent that they can produce the songs and art and contributions to theatre that they can offer up to the global community in whatever time frame is healthy for them. They can choose to learn from mistakes they made and keep their heads up in the future as they move forward into better days.

We need democracy to be restored, and in some senses in this country we have never really fully had it depending on who you are and who you are descended from. We the people need an amendment to the constitution that protects a woman's right to choose about whether or not she is to give birth,  we need universal health care, which Barack Obama has been seen working on, putting it down the books for good, just as abortion should be.

It is time for civil rights to be addressed even more through music and any artist stepping up to participate in this will help the cause of true freedom, empowerment and sincere friendship flourish.

Miley does not deserve more enemies. She does not deserve to be treated unfairly. I see why Sinead wrote what she did and I see why Miley reacted the way she did.