The Very Best In You

A seed was planted inside you a long time ago. In this seed was the all you need to live a full and purposeful life, but as we grew and became knowledgeable of the world somehow our seed got corrupted. We blossomed but perhaps not fully and all the water of the world couldn't get our little seed to grow.

"Ya know sometimes it takes more than you have to benefit from what you know"... but Spirit says: "..don't give up...keep yearnin' and learnin'"!

Love and the WORD is all you need to help your seed to flourish into...

The Very Best In You.

(PS - Good music helps along the way, too)

Enjoy the mix while you grow!

Brian "Katzpheno" Phoenix

featuring:

Teena Marie - "You Baby" (2009)
Maxwell - "Ascension" (1996)
N'dambi - "Can't Hardly Wait" (2009)
Pieces Of A Dream - "Sittin' Up In My Room" (1997)
Kim Waters - "Royal Groove" (2001)
Change - "The Very Best In You" (1982)
Maysa - "My Destiny" (2008)
Buckshot LeFonque - "Wonders & Signs" (1994)
M'Boom - "Come Back To Me" (1992)
Keb Mo - "Big Yellow Taxi" (2001)
Phoebe Snow - "Soothin" (1989)
Trombone Shorty & Lenny Kravitz - "Something Beautiful" (2010)

SHOW LOVE!

How can they know it unless you show it!

It's not always easy to SHOW ya LOVE...some say Hallmark says it best, but the truth is love needs to be felt up in the chest, not read on paper.

We give what we got - but is it ever enough? When life has you down, it is hard to produce. It is at times like this that we naturally retreat, shy away. It is also at times like these that the ones you love and need most may feel like you don't love them. Truth is in this life - we get tired, overwhelmed and even though we all just "WANNA BE LOVED", it's hard to be because like the saying goes.... you got to give to get (...what have you done for me lately, Ms. Jackson?).

Q. - Do you have more to give... do you have the strength?

A. - Time to dig deep and "SHOW LOVE"...they say strength is measured by what it takes to make you quit.

It may be a small thing...but never quit showing love - "TRUE LOVE"!

Enjoy,

Brian "Katzpheno" Phoenix

featuring:

Hil St. Soul - "Until You Come Back" (2000)
Jill Scott - "Wanna Be Loved" (2007)
Marc Antoine - "Camden Town" (2005)
Marcus Miller - "Boogie On Reggae Woman" (2005)
Van Hunt - "Suspicion" (2006)
Mary J. Blige - "Show Love" (2005)
George Benson - "Take You Out" (2004)
The Phat Cat Players - "Sundress" (2006)
Brian McKnight - "Stay" (2005)
Sade - "Smooth Operator" (2000)
Miles Davis - "Tutu" (1991)
Kem - "True Love" (2005)

Children Say

"When I overhear my friends conversations, well I'm struck by the things they say... seems they've traded the years for mere complications (who ever thought it could end this way).

They close the door, but they can't lock it - because something of their childhood remains and they felt it before when the man in their pocket counted the cost of their material gains.

Children say (children say) be strong for the friends you've known, but one fine day - not far away... we will remember the love we used to own.

Children say (children say) we all have minds that are one, as one more day slips away.... why don't the dreams of the young ever come to be?"

- Level 42 "Children Say" (1987)

Don't live your life away, be thankful and thoughtful and never stop being a child.

Enjoy the mix!!

- Brian "Katzpheno" Phoenix

featuring:

Level 42 - "Children Say" (1987)
Medeski, Martin & Wood - "Amish Pinxtos" (2009)
Herbie Hancock - "Call It '95" (1993)
Incognito - "Colibri" (1992)
Circle in The Round - "Devil of Cruelty" (1994)
Stanley Clarke - "When It's Cold Outside" (1986)
Q-Tip featuring Kanye - "We Fight, We Love" (2008)
Eurythmics - "This City Never Sleeps" (1983)
Amiri Baraka & The Roots - "Something In The Way Of Things/In Town" (2002)
Prince - "The Word" (2006)
Urban Knights - "Step by Step" (1987)
Steve Coleman featuring Cassandra Wilson - "Destination" (1988)

Express Yourself!

"The Truest expression of a people is in its dance and music". - Agnes de Mille

It is a holiday weekend y'all so express yourself and dance and sing to the music!

Happy Labor Day!!

Brian "Katzpheno" Phoenix

featuring:

The Jackson 5 - "ABC - Salaam Remi Krunkadelic Party Mix" (2005)
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - "Tears Of A Clown - Hotsnax Remix" (2005)
Mark Morrison - "Return Of The Mack" (1997)
Maxwell - "As My Girl" (1999)
Teena Marie - "Baby I Love You" (2009)
The Temptations - "Papa Was A Rollin' Stone - DJ Jazzy Jeff & Pete Kuzma Solefull Remix" (2005)
Vinx - "I'm Your Tonight" (2000)
Nathan Haines featuring Shelly Nelson - "Believe" (2000)
Mike Phillips - "Just One Take" (2002)
Ledisi - "I Tried" (2007)
Anthony Hamilton featuring David Banner - "Cool" (2008)
Eddie Kendricks - "Keep On Truckin' - DJ Spinna Remix" (2005)