{Sara Hickman} e-NewsLetter for May 07, 2003
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okey- dokey- artichokeys!

here are the DVD suggestions to date...i have some
favorites, but let me know what you think! (and after
the DVD titles, there is a TOP TWENTY MUSICAL MOMENTS
note to YOU!)

CONTENDERS for the Sara Hickman DVD:

Smilin' Sara---Richard and Barbara Strax
This One!----M. Cogliandro
A Fist Full of Flowers---Jody Ferguson

Simply Sara
Sara Hickman---Tales from the Universe---both from
Barbara Ackerman

What the Hick, Man!----Steve Pietzsche

Live from the Pumpkin Patch
String and a Prayer
On the Side With the Angels
Best of Times----all from Jeff Beiriger

I Am Going On A Journey (Jilalan)---from Henrietta
Stathopoulas (the second half is Aborigine)

Sara-Nades
Sara Toga Party----both from Gerry Ashley

Growing Love---Diane Finke
Sara Stories---Craig Young
Searching for Grace--Alan at the Kensington Listening Room
Life---Eddie and Tara Malphrus
Earth Between My Fingers---Jim Stevens
Sassypants---Margaret Keys
Another Dopeless Hope Fiend---Max Pumpkin
Peeled Grapes and Pumpkin Love From the Super Pal
Universe----Gerry Griffith
One Flew Over the Pumpkin Patch---Holly Clemens and
Gerry Griffith both submitted this idea!

There you have them so far! If you'd still like to
enter the contest, just send your idea on in...you'll
get a free DVD and your name in the DVD liners, if you
win!

And now, another moment from the TOP TWENTY MUSICAL
MOMENTS. We are currently at number 11...if you missed
the previous nine, you can check them out via Greg
D.'s kind gathering of my stories
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TOP TWENTY MOMENTS NUMBER 11 ...

It was a cool, crisp morning, and I was slated to
perform the National Anthem with Domestic Science
Club, the all girl singing group that included Patti
Mitchell-Lege, Robin Macy and moi. We clamored into
the tiny Volkswagon, the sun a hazy pink climbing up
over the Dallas skyline. We were scheduled to sing
at 6:00 a.m.

The little car carried our sleepy bodies over to the
race site. We were going to be the send off for
thousands of women running in the Susan G. Komen RACE
FOR THE CURE, and we were excited. As we stood on the
broad, white stage, the sun now an orange in the sky,
we intertwined our arms, and the three of us looked
out upon a sea of shining faces, eager to run, eager
to hear us sing about the home of the brave. As the
last notes of our voices melted into morning, I jumped
off the stage and joined the throngs of women. I was
going to run the race with Robin, the first time I
would ever be running a 5K! Bang! And we were off!

As I ran, with Robin's encouragement!, I was moved by
the presence of so many different women. Women were
running on behalf of their mothers, their sisters,
cousins, friends, grandmothers---women lost to breast
cancer, women who had survived. There were old women,
women with baby strollers, women in wheel chairs,
women holding hands, women laughing...black and brown
and yellow and pink and white women, a rainbow
coalition, all running in the same direction---towards
the finish line of hope.

I was breathing in and out, watching the rythym of
women flow, when it came to me...these women needed an
anthem of their own. The National Anthem was
beautiful, and I truly love singing it, but in the
end, it speaks of war, and these women were running
for a different reason. With my legs a steady pulse
beneath me, I ran and thought...ran and thought...when
the melody and the rythym and the words came to my
heart...It was Just...breathe... One Race...breathe...
for the Cure...breathe...because we are
all...breathe... One Race...the Human Race...run, run,
breathe, run, run, breathe...

I started to sing the song in my mind, over and over,
to the beat of thousands of feet...fearing I would
forget my ideas, I kept singing, beginning to end,
over and over and over....until suddenly, we were
reaching the last part of the race...I didn't know if
I could make it...my body was tired, and I was
overwhelmed with the desire to rest...but Robin and
Kayla (another friend) started to run circles around
me, cheering me on, and I got that famous second
wind...and we did it! We finished the race together!
I was elated! My first time to ever run a REAL race
and I had done it!

Well, as I ran across the line (grateful to my
friends!), I ran right up to one of the producers of
the race and said, "I've got it! I've got a song for
you!" She looked confused, but I kept hopping around
her, elated with my ideas...for not only had I
"written" a song in my mind, I had had an entire
vision...the song would have a gospel choir, there
would be a full production, we could make a cd and the
money could go to the Komen Foundation for further
breast cancer research! The woman kept asking me,
"What? What are you saying?" I shouted, "Over here to
the parking garage! Let me sing it for you!" (Parking
garages have nice acoustics, and there just happened
to be one RIGHT THERE!!! How handy!) So, she grabbed
some fellow volunteers (probably worried I was going
to never stop hopping!) and we headed to the garage
and I started to sing the song..."Oh!" they cried.
"Oh! Now we understand!" they said.

Well, the next thing I knew, I was in my good friend
Danny Levin's garage, and he was arranging the song to
my a cappella ideas, and I was singing, and next I had
to find just the right choir! Voila! Into my life came
the Bits and Pieces for Christ Choir! We met at the
studio...the song poured forth from them with such
jubilation! I was clappping and cheering...they were
clapping and cheering! Lots of clapping and cheering
going on!

Next, I invited my sister's women's choir down from
Colorado...and the whole mess of us, two full choirs
and me, sang the song at the annual Komen luncheon for
about 3000 women. It was a thrill! And the fact that
the choirs consisted of lesbians, blacks, whites,
Christians,women and men of different ideas, spiritual
beliefs and walks of life...
it represented the fact that cancer knows no bounds.
It can affect all of us (even men get breast
cancer...did you know that?).

So, God's vision, laid upon my heart, became a
reality. Soon the song was on different cds helping to
raise funds for the Komen Foundation. I was traveling
the country, singing for the different races...

And then...just when I thought nothing more could
become of the song....I ended up last spring at
Carnagie Hall with a choir of 350 voices and an eighty
piece orchestra...and I realized...this is how a dream
begins...you just have to believe...you have to follow
your heart and follow through...you have to know that
one voice can start a choir...and so I say to you...
if you have a dream right now...take that first
step...and before you know it...you will be off and
running...!

Some are black...
Some are white...
Each is precious in God's sight
Cuz we're all...in one race
For the cure

Some are young...some are old
And I find as time unfolds
That we're all...in one race
For the cure

As I watch...through my eyes
I try so hard not to cry...As each sister
Runs...
For another

I have found
When you care
There's more than enough to share
And we're all
In one race
For the cure...

Just one race...with each small step that you take
Cuz we're all in the race...
For the cure...

Sending love and prayers for a healthy planet,
Sara

<<<-------More...From the MailingList WiseGuy------>>
On a serious note, Sara wants to pass this along as well
Please note that this is not an Urban Legend like so many others: ... go to
the Urban Legends WWW to verify.
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/petition/amina.htm
and
http://www.mertonai.org/amina/

----Pleas Help-------

Subject: Fw: Urgent - Please help!

Please will you sign the www petition to save the life of Amina Lawal, now
very
near to being put to death by stoning in Nigeria. The instructions are
below. Please pass the information to all your e-mail list. Thank you.

AMNINA LAWAL SET TO BE STONED ON 3RD JUNE
The Nigerian Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence for Amina Lawal,
condemned for the crime of adultery on August 19th 2002, to be buried up to
her neck and stoned to death. Her death was postponed so that she could
continue to nurse her baby.
Execution is now set for June 3rd.
If you haven't been following this case, you might like to know that Amina's
baby
is regarded as the 'evidence' of her adultery. The father denied everything
when he realised the trouble he was in.
To find out more about sharia law,
see http://www.guardian.co.uk/theissues/article/0,6512,777972,00.html

Amina's case is being handled by the Spanish branch of Amnesty
International, which is attempting to put together enough signatures to make
the Nigerian government rescind the death sentence.

A similar campaign saved another Nigerian woman, Safiya, condemned in similar
circumstances. By March 4th the petition had amassed over 2,600,000
signatures.
It will only take you a few seconds to sign Amnesty's online petition.

Go to the web page
http://www.amnistiaporsafiya.org/

Enter your first name in the space marked "nombre",
last name ("apellidos"),
county ("provincia"), (for this I put "San Antonio, TX)
country,(In the drop down box pick "Estados Unidos" for the United States;
"Reino Unido" for the United Kingdom; etc.. )
Then click on "Seguir" and
go to the second page. There you have the option of entering your email
address if you wish to receive follow-up information.
In any case, be sure
to click on "aceptar" to have your name added to the petition list.
Please sign the petition now, then copy this message into a new email and
send it
to everyone in your address book.

Dr Reg Dennick, BSc, PhD, MEd, ILTM
Assistant Director of Medical Education
The Medical School
The University of Nottingham
NG7 2UH UK
Tel (44) 0115 9709788
Fax (44) 0115 9709922
Visit www.medsin.org

Elaine Tennant
Secretary MedSIN-UK
secretary@...

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-----------------eNoted-------------------

Sara cd's, including "Faithful Heart" is still available at:
*Hastings (all over Texas)
*Tower Records in New Orleans, Austin, Atlanta, Honolulu, Hawaii; Pasadena,
CA; and New York City, NY
*Trans World Entertainment in Albany, NY
*Best Buy
*CD UNIVERSE in Dallas, TX
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sara@...

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http://www.sarahickman.com/
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Hey, check out GregD's fabulous websites for Sara Hickman:
Past Sara's eNewsLetters---> http://www.habu2.net/saramail.html
and
SaraMoments by GregD---> http://www.habu2.net/saramoments.html
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Mail cards and letters to Sara
(and money orders and checks, as well) to:

Sara Hickman
PMB #431
504 W. 24th Street
Austin TX 78705-5231
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