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Sunday, September 19th, 2004
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10:32a - kindness day
yesterday the city had declared it kindness day. for hallie. i am really glad, despite the pouring rain and flooded highways and traffic and detours and being really sick, i decided i to go to HALLIESTOCK. akida drove me down and dropped me off and he went to erik's house. thankfully i remembered my umbrella. when i got there there were a bunch of hallie's classmates reading things she wrote. there were a lot of readers and a lot of musicians and a lot of ponchos and umbrellas. if it had been a sunny day there would have been thousands of people there, but it is funny how things go. because of the rain the people that were there were the people who needed so terribly to be there and the love for hallie was so thick in the air. i felt like i had known her forever. i met her sister m.j. and got to hear her sing with her singing group. i think they are around 15 years old. one girl was playing guitar and 4 of them sang and they were awesome. someday i will ask them to sing on one of my songs. and aliza was there. she is so nice. and hallie's brother josh helped me to know what was going on. i am really glad he asked me to be there. at one point a limo pulled up and nile rogers showed up and got on stage with these two ladies and he said "hi, we're chic". then they sang a little bit of le freak. and then he said that they had to go pretty quick because they left in the middle of a show but as friends of hallie's family they wanted to stop by at least and they invited m.j.s group back up to sing we are family with them. it was great. then barbara feldon, agent 99 from get smart, read some stuff. so much happened all day. right before the band betty went on stage me and one of the women realized that we had met at the studio in s.f. they mixed their album there. they played 2 songs that were great. i had never heard them before. then there were more readings and i went in the trailer and tuned my guitar. i went out and played it's been raining, singing machine, and eleventeen. it was really sad. one of hallie's little friends told me that it's been raining made her cry. there was never a more appropriate time and place to sing that song. after i played i called akida to come and get me because i felt so sick. some kids from germany arrived right then because they got lost. they were sad that they missed my songs so i gave them cds. i gave cds to josh and m.j. and nile rogers and the woman from betty and hallie's grandparents. her grandparents were adorable. they told me they would never forget my performance. i will never forget yesterday either. i am going to end this with a picture of hallie and something she wrote. so sad and beautiful and inspiring. i never met her while she was alive but i am glad to know of her now.
"I want to do something special this year, or even 20 years from now. I want to stand out sometime. That may be the reason I've decided to become a doctor when I'm grown. Most kids think that's stupid, even you may think that too as you read this. But I want to help. Anything! I can help clean up my neighborhood, wash away mean words written on walls, so no one has to be reminded of the hate that lingers in this world. I'm getting off point. Anyway, I want to help the class community, or help raise money for starving people. I want to become more active in peacemaking, and helping people make the right choices. I want to help save endangered species. I want to discover the cure for cancer, and save lives. I just hope i get the chance." - Hallie Kassandra Geier
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