There’s a lot going on about truth nowadays and in all ages. For now I think of Trump’s inauguration… the president speaking his truth,  his press officer speaking an alternative truth…

On the internet I searched for some truth quotes; there’s loads of them, it seems every important person who ever lived, had something to say about truth:
Marcus Aurelius: ‘Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.’
Albert Einstein: ‘Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.’
Charles Spurgeon: ‘A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.’
This one was later rephrased and made famous by Winston Churchill: ‘A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.’

Truth doesn’t seem to be easy, most of the time going along with lies and distrust… It seems we long for truth, a collective truth, while truth also seems to be so personally…

What does truth mean to me …?

Last week I watched the documentary film Miss Sharon Jones!, which had huge impact on me. You know Sharon Jones? We lost loads of musical geniality in David Bowie, Prince and George Michael last year; we also lost Sharon Jones, singer with the Dap Kings. She was a female James Brown, a hundred percent soul power, overflowing with life energy, coming from a poor family, never giving up her honesty in whatever situation.

She was told to be ‘too fat, too black, too short and too old’ to be accepted in the music business. She decided to live her own truth till she passed away last November. This documentary film is about how she lived her love and truth during her last few years, from the moment she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. For me this woman is an example of living her truth and an a huge inspiration for me to live my own…
Please, click here to meet Miss Sharon Jones!