Daily Zen - Monday, August 1

Just don't give up trying to do

what you really want to do.

Where there's love and inspiration,

I don't think you can go wrong.

~ Ella Fitzgerald 

Daily Zen - Thursday, May 21

Just don't give up trying to do

what you really want to do.

Where there's love and inspiration,

I don't think you can go wrong.

~ Ella Fitzgerald

Daily Zen - Friday, September 7

It isn't where you came from,

it's where you're going that counts.

~ Ella Fitzgerald

Daily Zen - Friday, September 8

Just don't give up trying to do 

what you really want to do. 

Where there's love and inspiration,

I don't think you can go wrong.

~ Ella Fitzgerald

Weekend Zen, September 26-27

Just don't give up trying to do what you

really want to do. Where there's love and 

inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

~ Ella Fitzgerald

Daily Zen - Thursday, June 26

Just don't give up trying to do what you really 

want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, 

I don't think you can go wrong.

~ Ella Fitzgerald

Daily Zen - Thursday, April 25

Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.
                      ~ Ella Fitzgerald

Ella Fitzgerald, the "first lady of song," was born on this day in 1917.

I couldn't take my eyes (or ears) off this video clip of her performance of Summertime (Berlin, 1968). The tiny beads of sweat trickling down her face in the tight camera shots and her three octave voice - it's sublime and a little surreal, and there's not a note out of place.