Extraordinary: The New Gold Standard

Thanks to our over-the-top, everything in excess culture dripping wet with marketing you've likely become as immune to the word "Extraordinary" as you are to cursing, nudity, violence and the sound of car tires pounding the asphalt.

It's a damn shame the deafness the comes with extended loudness means we lose a huge part of our senses--we become less attune, less aware, less in touch and less present to. 

Sensory deafness means we don't perceive brilliance when we step on it for we're our systems became exhausted by the shallow likes of a Britney Spears.

Well, in the event you too like so many have forgotten, misplaced, dislodged of just plain forgotten what is meant by the word:

                                       "Extraordinary"....

I give you this video clip as a new standard.

Should you ever have occasion to use the word in print, pantomime or passing, may I suggest you take a brief moment and watch this performance and ask yourself again, "Is what I'm about to say truly extraordinary? or is it simply 'good?'"

Extraordinary: Definition according to Webster's:  1) a : going beyond what is usual, regular, or customary  b : exceptional to a very marked extent...

In my book, what you will see in this video is nothing less than EXTRA-ORDINARY... beyond that which we are accustomed to... dare I even suggest this performance is reaches beyond the confines of the human realm.

Yes, Bettye LaVette (in her performance tribute to the Who at Kennedy Center Awards) shows once and for all that you don't have to invent the wheel to make it roll in an entirely new and inspiring way.

Here's to a new standard for extraordinary!