Daily Antidote | Joe Jencks & Munit Mesfin "Come With Me" & "What A Wonderful World" - 1/1/23
Daily Antidote of Song
[{'start': '51.851', 'end': '56.756', 'text': "is the first day of our next   thousand days. Everybody give   it up for the Daily Antidote of   Song for Carpe Diam Arts for   all the fabulous people that   make this possible day after   day after day. We are going to   have so much fun today. I can't   even begin to tell you. So,   we've got Joe Jenks in the room   with us today coming in of   course from his home in   Chicago. Hello, Joe Jenks and   we've got lots of other folks   in the room with us. I'm   going to say a couple quick   things and then we're going to   say hello to everybody and get   started. So, hello to everybody   out there on Facebook Live.   Thanks joining us and for   anybody who's new out there and   anybody who's new in the room,   this is the Daily Antidote of   Song. We've been singing one   song together every day at noon   Eastern since April of twenty   20. Yesterday, we hit day 1000   and today, we're starting our   next thousand days. We welcome   you to join us any day here in   the Daily Antidote in the Zoom   or on Facebook Live because we   love having people sing with   us. So, join us anytime. It's   free and it's just amazing.   Song leaders from around the   world and attendees as you will   see in a moment from around the   world. hi everybody out there   on Facebook. Hello to Erin   coming in from Virginia today   usually from Brooklyn and   running our tech today and   assistant here in what we do   extraordinaire. Hello of course   to Joe Jenks who's singing with   us today. Coming in from   Chicago. Hello to Busy Graham   and Mooney and the love bugs   and Sarah and Alex and Marty   and who knows who else is out   there at Busy Gram's house out   of the Eastern Shore of   Maryland. We are so glad you   guys are here today. Special   extra treat for everybody. Hi   Dorian, Ollie in Rhode Island.   Hi, in Florida. Hi, Becky in   Vancouver. Hello, Gary in Mass   or maybe in the car so maybe   halfway through somewhere. Hi,   Kevin in DC with the Golden   Flute. Amanda and Miles in   Michigan, hello. Caroline,   holding up a day one sign. I   love it. It is a new beginning.   It is an old thank you thousand   days. I love it, Caroline.   That's awesome. Um hello to   Luda and Mark in Victoria,   British Columbia. Showing us   that we have to remember to   give a lot of love to everybody   that is actually what we're   doing here. Look, I got a red   sweater. So, we're hearting it   up in a good way. to Susan in   Ohio. Hi to Deborah Denenfeld   in Kentucky or somewhere   between Kentucky and somewhere.   Bob and Mabel and the Bears in   Massachusetts may be wearing   their brand-new sweaters handed   by Dory. Hello to Cricket in   Maryland. Hello to Leah in   Illinois. Hello to Mac. Nice to   have you here today. Good to   see you. Hello to Fred in   Maryland. Hello to Hoda in   British Columbia. Kathleen in   Albuquerque. Don and the Curly   Tubbs over there in Vermont,   Aloysius, and Massachusetts.   Susan in Seattle. Arlene and   Bear in Berkeley And I just   lost my hello Karen in Oregon.   Nice to see you. Hello to Bob   and Christiana with a day   1thousand1 sign. And maybe   they're not on the screen   because they're still in their   pajamas and they're a little   kerfuffled from staying up too   late. I know that's what I am.   Hi to Dali and Marilyn Storm in   Massachusetts and in Silver   Spring, Maryland. Natalia, Ida,   Whitby, and Campbell in the   car. Maybe somewhere around   Washington DC and maybe even   we're going to get to see each   other today in person. Phil and   the gang in Newcastle I see   William. I see Pauline and I   see Bill. Hello in the UK who   we're so happy to see today.   Haven't seen you in a while.   We're glad you're here. With   the camera that's not working.   Hi to Bonnie in Boise, Idaho,   Ruth in Birmingham, UK, Nancy's   Irish Cow in Washington, Linen   Cliff, and Vermont. Good   morning and good morning. Hello   to Jamie and Victoria BC, Kevin   Ennis coming in in the   hospital. Love to you Kevin as   you help us count our 1001   days. Caroline in DC, Sim Key   in Maryland, Tristan, Victoria,   Annette in California, Dan and   Virginia. There's Busy Gram and   the crew again coming in from   the or Marilyn. Karen, nice to   have you back with us today.   Good to see you. Hi, Tom from   Nashville. Nice to see you   today. Also good to see you. We   haven't seen you in a while.   Bronwyn and Andy and folks off   video, Kristy and Janet and   Hindi and Penny and Sandy and   Isabel and Lynn and Jenny in   Suffolk UK and Kat and Kate in   Florida and there's Jacqueline   coming in from. I'm not   actually sure where   Jacqueline's from. Jacqueline,   we're glad you're here today   and let's all take a deep   breath. If I've missed anybody   today, on your Hello and we   will get you on the goodbye   end. One deep breath please   everybody.  Alright So, let's get this   program started. Uh Joe Jenks,   I'm turning it over to you.   Fill us with beauty, please.   I'll do my best. Uh so nice to   be with all of you on this   amazing New Year's Day, January   1st, 2023. How about that? And   the one thousand 1 day of the   Daily Antidote of Song. It was   so nice to be with all of you   last evening to celebrate the   thousandth day of the Daily   Antidote of Song and the close   of twenty twenty-two. This is a   song I wrote many years ago   called Come With Me. I was on   retreat out in Northern   California with some friends   and I used to be a Red Cross   certified lifeguard and fancied   myself to be a good swimmer.   But I realized about halfway   across a wide and fast moving   mountain river. Uh the Klamath   River there in Northern   California. Uh that that sense   of self was about 10 years out   of date. And this song plays   out a little bit of that story   and my own resistance to asking   for help and embarrassment   about that and ultimately   recognizing the the greatest   the greatest thing I had in my   favor was the community of   people around me and that is   the Daily Antidote of Song in   this time so this is will you   come with me on this journey   with every breath we take keep   reaching for the dawn I know   alone that I will falter but   with a good friend near me I   will carry on  will you come with me on this   journey with every breath we   take keep reaching for the dawn   we'll just do that much will   you come with me will you come   with me on this journey with   every breath we take keep   reaching for the dawn next part   I know alone I know alone that   I will falter that I will fall   to a good friend near me I will   carry on I know alone singing   that I perform and I will fall   to with a good friend near me I   will carry on let's put all   that together will you come   with me on this journey with   every breath we take keep   reaching for the   I  ain't noone will falter near   me I will carry on  I feel the current raging   around me sum it up my strength   once more  weary  me afraid I will not reach that   distant shore I cry for help   can  Amazing theme song for the   Daily Antidote. Boy, there was   a lot of words in there that   just sort of summed it all up,   right? Holding each other,   reaching each other, just yeah,   everything in that song felt to   me like it really explained the   sort of the intention of what   we do here and of course, the   result of it. So, thank you,   thank you, thank you, Joe Jinx.   Let's all give it up for a   beautiful song. What a perfect   way to kick off our Daily   Antidote day 1001 and first day   you, Joe. Thank you, Joe. I, I   should, I should add just a   little piece to the story on   that, which is that because of   that piece of my pride that was   invested in the notion of being   a Red Cross certified lifeguard   once upon a time and that sense   that I was a good swimmer. Um,   I was a Radisson to ask for   help when I needed it, And   suddenly my thumb has appeared   over my, this is, Zoom has   gotten too smart. It's   interpreting my gestures. Um,   this is a little bizarre Oh my   goodness. Um that could be   dangerous. I'm just going to   keep my hands back here. We're   not sure what Zoom is going to   do with my hands next. So, you   know, I'm swimming in the   Klamath River and I'm I'm   taking water into my lungs and   I'm just on the edge of   drowning because my shoulders   have given out and and I'm   afraid to ask for help because   I I don't want to embarrass   myself and it doesn't occur to   me that be far more   embarrassing to drown because I   was afraid to ask for help. You   know, like the legacy is like,   my god, what an idiot. He   didn't ask for help, you know?   Um but I was just wrestling   with my ego in the middle of   that river and you know, I I   kind of was waiting for that   moment where they say, look   toward the light, look toward   the light, you know, and I   didn't see the light and then I   thought, oh, yeah. You know,   god knows I'm a unitarian.   Maybe there's no light after   that, you know, but all joking   aside, it was kind of a   terrifying moment and I   thought, well, maybe there'll   be some transcendent   understanding and I'll these   images flash before me like   they do in the movies where   you, you know, you see I don't   know. You come to some   understanding of what the whole   journey's been about. Uh and   then I had a moment. I had this   mystical moment where I saw the   headline that would appear in   the Arcada newspaper the next   day and it would say obscure   folk singer dies in freak river   accident and I said, alright,   well, that's clearly not how I   want the story to end and so I   pushed myself back above the   water and literally with my   last breath cried out for help   and to my eternal there was a   woman on a retreat that week   who was a current Red Cross   certified lifeguard And she   jumped in the water with me.   But rather than doing all the   lifeguard maneuvers that I was   taught she just started to   tread water. And she invited me   to place my hands on her   shoulders. And she held me up   in that river. And she told me   to take a deep breath.  try one with me. Take one of   those deep breaths.  and she told me to breathe and   breathe and breathe And as she   saw the color return to my   cheeks and the panic leave my   eyes, she said, okay, let's   keep swimming. I was like,   what? You know, you're here to   save me. Um but we just we just   kept swimming. We got to the   other side. We caught our   breath. We swam all the way   back. And I realized the next   day what inspired the song is   that she had given me a gift   that was so much greater than   saving me. She didn write a   check. You know, she didn't   stand on the sidelines and   throw me a rope. She   demonstrated what solidarity   looked like. She got into the   trouble with me in a safe way.   She reconnected me to my   breath. She separated me from   my panic. She reconnected me to   my power. And she swam with me.   That is the gift that we give   each other in community. And   that was the gift that the   Daily Antidote of Song has been   giving so many people for the   last thousand days. And   hopefully for the 000 days. The   gift of being together on the   journey. Joe Jenks, thank you   so much and thank you for   letting us sit with that. That   was just beautiful to hold that   in. Um I feel like your story   really does reflect to such a   great extent not just what the   Daily Antidote does but of   course what each and every   person in the room individually   is doing which is giving us the   space to recognize that we got   it. Mm hmm. We have it. You   know, like we give each other   little boosts and from there,   we can take it on. We know that   we have somebody by our side   which is of course the message   in your song and the message in   your river experience. So,   think that everybody, all of   you in this room, you've done   that, You've come out for each   other in moments of, of need,   and you've reminded us, we got   this, right? So, like, thank   you, Joe Jenks, for a really   great way to start the New   Year, reminding ourselves that   like, we'll be okay, we're   going to do it, we're going to,   we're going to get there. Um, I   also want to say like, one of   the messages in your thing was,   all the different ways that   people do come out and support   or or give back or something.   So, I did announce this   yesterday but I want to say it   again. I got a text and I can   actually now say who because I   checked in with them. I got a   text from Alex coming yesterday   in the middle of all the   festivities which I'm going to   read to you guys. He says, I'd   happily volunteer time to   create a compilation album to   raise money for Daily Antidote   of Song. As many artists who   want to donate a track could   easily compile and sell on   Bandcamp and on your website.   So, there is somebody who has   come up with an idea of how to   give us the boost to show us   we've got this, right? So,   like, a huge thank you to Alex   coming and I gotta give you   guys one more because I woke up   this morning, wiped out and   exhausted and expected that   there will be some Emails or   some texts where people say how   nice it was and there was, of   course, plenty of them and I   love you all so much and then,   there was another Email which   I'm going to now attempt to   share my screen because I gotta   show this to you guys and let's   see if I can make this work.   There you go. This is an Email   I got this morning Carol   Johnson in Connecticut who is   the person who also compiled   our Daily Antidote song   spreadsheet of all our thousand   days worth of singing. Uh just   voluntarily. Who has made us.   Here you go. Our very own Daily   Antidote of Song, Crossword,   Puzzle, giving us a thing to do   on New Year's Day that has   everything to do with all of us   and this journey that we've   been on together. So, a huge   shout out to Carol Johnson and   come Heller High Water I mean   if you had to get that puzzle   to you guys today because I   love the idea of everybody   sitting there on the ears. Of   course I'm supposed to be in   the shower and instead of   sitting in bed doing the   crossword puzzle this morning.   Thank you Carol. And I'm so so   excited to get that to   everybody. We'll figure out a   way. And you'll see it later   today. So thank you Joe for   reminding us every single   person in this room in their   own way. Holding us up. Thank   you everybody. So we have   another special song situation   or situations happening today.   I'm bringing forward Busygram   and a cast of characters over   there on the Eastern Shore of   Maryland. Can we all please   welcome Busy Graham and   whomever. Gang, I can only sort   of see you, Erin. Can you   highlight? So, I can actually   see them and one by one. Shout   out whoever it is I recognize.   Um I can't see, I'm still   seeing me. Can you get rid of   me? Thank you. Alright, and I   see Joe Jenks and somewhere   there must be folks. Oh, there   we go. Alright, thank you so   much, Erin doing text stuff at   Aaron back and forth. So, I see   Busy Gram, I see Mizan and   Ayana and Monique. Uh so that's   Monique and Z Lovebugs. Is that   Sarah over there on your side   of your yes? Who is that? Yes.   Okay, Sarah. Sarah Olmsted   Thomas of Alex and Olmsted and   also of Happens Dance Theater   and we're so glad you guys are   here today. Thank you for   bringing us a special special   thing from your New Year's   celebration. What do you got,   gang? I just want to say that   that this whole group here   performed at Talbot the first   night Talbot the New Year's Eve   celebration free of alcohol.   It's been going on for 29   years. So next year will be the   30th anniversary. We might have   to bring a Daily Antidote bus   to that event. Because they   will be back by popular demand.   I'm quite sure. Milo the   magnificent was performed at   the historic Avalon Theater.   And then at the Academy Art   Museum. Along with Gabrielle   Zui who has also been in the   Daily Antidote of Song. So yeah   it was an amazing celebration.   Um with the one and only Crab   Drop. Yeah. In this on this   planet the crab drop at nine   o'clock for the family groups   and twelve midnight. Uh with   our friend Randy Welch the   bagpiper leading us all to the   crab drop. So it it was very   memorable. And we need MC   Lovebugs were a huge hit   needless to say and Milo the   magnificent the same. So yeah.   So we are here to play a song   for you that I think all of you   know we didn't put the lyrics   in the chat but whatever you   can remember we want you to   sing along. It's going to be   featuring our brass band. But   led by me, Sam. We hope you can   hear us out there. Give us a   little wave if you can hear us   alright so far. Yeah, Mijan   picked up the trumpet three   months ago. Yeah. That's pretty   amazing. That's to inspire all   of us with our New Year's   resolutions to have different   instruments. Be brave. Alright,   ready? Okay. One. Two. one,   Two. Three.  I was so pleased to tell you   that this group plus Gabriel   were up until we headed there.   We headed Uno game that   wouldn't end. humans like man   and  But we're so glad we made it.   This felt so good. And you make   this world so wonderful. All of   you. We love you. Thank you.   Thank you. Thank you. Thank   you. Thank you for a perfect   song. You guys are so amazing.   I absolutely love it. It's you   guys look so happy and you   don't look like you stayed up   till 4: 30 in the morning. Uh   can't say that. I'm not sure   why. I bet a lot of folks maybe   a lot of folks did this. I know   we definitely did this. It was   like everyone was gone. We   cheered in midnight and then   for some reason stayed up an   extra 2 hours. Why do we do   this to ourselves? I'm not   really sure. Joe Dinks, what   time did you go to about   24-five which is 345 in your   time zone. So, you don't get   that extra hour doesn't count   for you though. Yeah. Super.   Beautiful. One of my all-time   favorite songs. What a   wonderful world. Wow. Yeah.   Absolutely incredible.  Alright, So, Busy Gram and   Company over there. I wasn't   sure if you were saying to me   that you actually wanted to do   something else. So, are we   moving on and going back to   Joe? Just let me know so I   know. Yeah. Good job. And and   and Don Fedes would love to to   come in and sing **** old hands   sometime in twenty   twenty-three. But they. Okay,   in 2023. Got it. Yeah. Well, we   tell them, we would love to   have them sometime in twenty   twenty-three. In fact, in   January is when we would love   to have them. So, great. Can't   wait to talk to them soon. Um   alright. can we all just take   another Joe Jenks deep breath   please? Cuz we're about to go   on another Joe Jenks journey.  let's just sing the chorus of   the song a couple of times and   call it a day. will you come   with me on this journey?  will you come with me on this   journey with every breath we   take keep preaching for the   dawn I know  will falter with a good friend   near me I will carry on will   you come with me on this   journey with every breath we   take keep reaching for the dawn   I know what  with a good friend near me I   will Let's do it one more time.   Everybody together. Will you   come with me? journey with   every breath we take keep   reaching for the dawn noone  falter with a good friend near   me I will carry on the world  with a  with a good  I will  Happy new  Joe Jenks who came and opened   our 6 o'clock last night and is   opening our morning this   morning. Thank you Joe Jenks   for all you do and for   everything you bring to this   community. You are a miracle   and I love you very much and   hugs to you. Thank you Joe.   Love you too. Thank you Erin.   And thanks to Jayden who is not   here but has been working with   all of us as well. Um yeah   Aaron and Jaden are really   keeping the wheels on the bus.   So give it up for them. Thank   you so much. Aaron and Jade.   Keeping the wheels on the Daily   Antidote bus. Even before we've   purchased it and gotten it into   motion, they are here and are   doing. Thank you. Thank you.   Happy New Year everybody. Happy   New Year, Joe. Thank you so   much. So, for everybody in this   room, can we just give it up   also for yesterday? I mean,   what was yesterday, right? That   was pretty cool and I have to   say, as soon as my   technologically not so smart   brain can figure out how to do   it, I am going to figure out   way to share with all of you   one of the many songs that   erupted last night after we   turned the cameras off like so   for example, I say and Jim   Harkless and Dan and Claudia   Zanes and Lilo playing my   dining room table singing was   it We Shall Overcome? I can't   even remember now. I was just   unbelievable. So, good thing I   have the video because   otherwise, I never remember. I   can't wait to share with you   guys some of what was happening   here because we can actually be   with each other on our own   independent journeys even when   we're not actually together in   person. And so there's another   moral of the story. Thank you   everybody for holding us all   up. The Daily Antidote. Me,   each other, Joe Danks, Busy   Graham, Monique, and Z Lovebugs   and Alex. Uh well so Sarah of   Alex and and Olmsted. And   everybody else over there at   the Eastern Shore who just   participated in all of the joy.   And I am actually what guess   what? Getting on the road   really. So, I'm going to pass   this over to Erin who's   going to say goodbye to   everybody. Driving up to see my   family and can't wait to see   you all again tomorrow. Hub and   legs to everybody. Facebook   Live, thanks for being here.   Aaron, thank you. So much for   everything. Oh my gosh. Well,   whenever we do get that tour   bus, I guess we know who's   driving it because she's used   to driving every vehicle,   anywhere, anytime, every single   day, always. So, you're driving   the bus. I mean, I don't know.   I Could drive it but I don't   have a driver's license so that   could be a really exciting trip   for all of us. I have a very   teeny, weeny, weeny, little   Toyota Prius. like I like. So,   a big giant tour bus should be   no problem. It's not happening.   No, but I'm sure there'll be   somebody. Wait, Cathy Baker.   There we go. Yeah. Cathy. She's   actually a bus driver. She's a   bus. Fine, fine, fine. Cathy   can be the bus driver. Fine.   Love you all. Regular car   driver. Bye. Thank you, Lots of   love to everybody. Can't wait   to see you all tomorrow. Safe   Drive. Keep your eye open for   the crossword puzzle. We'll   figure out a way. And Karen in   Oregon is also a bus driver so   we can even like take shifts.   That's awesome. Perfect. Now we   just need a bus. Who has a bus?   What do you mean none of you   have a bus? Okay, we'll work on   it. Bye, Joe. Go get on the   road And a big goodbye and   thank you to everybody here in   this room and out there on   Facebook Live. Everyone, give   them a wave. Bye, Facebook.   Always feel free to come and   join us in this room right here   and as for all of us here, feel   free to go out there on   Facebook and check out any day   because every single one of the   1000 days we've been here is   right there on Facebook Live.   Give them a watch. Bye,   Facebook."}]