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as if that wasn’t enough, after the first<br />
verse, the drummer would get up and<br />
shoot himself in the head with a starter<br />
pistol! Talk about a bunch of posers!<br />
The thing is no one can control what<br />
happens to their songs. Music travels,<br />
and don’t I know it, but rumours, once<br />
they get started, they travel more.<br />
I used to print up song lists and hand<br />
them out to the audience so that<br />
they’d know I’d written other songs<br />
too, but they always wanted Gloomy<br />
Sunday. I guess that without meaning<br />
to or wanting to it seems I captured<br />
what they call the spirit of the times.<br />
Gloom. Doom. Lost love. Love I don’t<br />
mind, even lost love I don’t mind. But<br />
that kind of love, the kind that kills<br />
you and you kill yourself for, I don’t<br />
want to be remembered for that.<br />
The other night someone in the<br />
audience asked me what my favourite<br />
song is and I said, Let’s Love Each<br />
Other Peeps. Hands down. That was<br />
a big hit for me too. I wrote it the<br />
year before Gloomy, in 1932, and<br />
that year the whole country sang it.<br />
Let’s love each other peeps,<br />
the heart is the greatest treasure.<br />
In all the wide world,<br />
Love is the grandest pleasure.<br />
The melody is sweet as a good liqueur,<br />
the words too, most of them anyway.<br />
It’s the sense of urgency that makes it<br />
so timeless. Let’s love each<br />
other right now, ‘cause it’s<br />
all so damn fleeting. I’ve<br />
started opening and closing<br />
every set with Let’s Love<br />
Each Other Peeps. I like to<br />
sing it on my way to work<br />
and on my way back home.<br />
I whisper it to myself like a<br />
prayer, as if it mattered. As<br />
if the right song really could<br />
change something. Remember this.<br />
If you would like to read more<br />
of Nicole’s work please visit<br />
www.nicolewaldner.com<br />
TRANSFORMATIVE LEARNING<br />
INTRODUCING GLOBAL CITIZEN<br />
At <strong>Emanuel</strong> <strong>Synagogue</strong>, we have the vision to empower young people to<br />
change the world through entrepreneurial learning and thinking.<br />
This empowerment starts with our B'nei<br />
Mitzvah program which encompasses<br />
a social justice element that forms an<br />
important part of the curriculum.<br />
However, post-B'nei Mitzvah how do<br />
we inspire young people to become<br />
agencies of change or to care about<br />
their social impact on the world?<br />
And there the excitement begins….<br />
inspired by a conversation with our<br />
CEO Suzanna Helia about<br />
the positive reaction of<br />
young Australians at a recent<br />
screening of the Global<br />
Citizen documentary Louder<br />
Together, hatched the idea of<br />
Global Citizen at <strong>Emanuel</strong>.<br />
This involves a new<br />
programme for schoolaged<br />
youth to allow them to<br />
think critically and creatively<br />
about the different ways<br />
they could change the world<br />
through a social purpose<br />
lens. The programme aims<br />
to inspire them to see how they can<br />
develop ideas or use their advocacy<br />
to end the world's most inhumane<br />
problems. It empowers our youth<br />
to take action and see themselves<br />
as a Global Citizen. Young people<br />
and their families who are interested<br />
in participating in the program are<br />
encouraged to attend an information<br />
evening and pre-screening of the<br />
Global Citizen documentary 'Louder<br />
Together' narrated by Hugh Jackman<br />
that will be announced soon.<br />
I am so excited to be sharing with you<br />
this fantastic launch and look forward<br />
to meeting your families and inspiring<br />
young minds at the event.<br />
Marina Capponi<br />
marina@emanuel.org.au<br />
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