Hmm, maybe if he can preach it, I can sing it:
Imagine if the spiritual people, the dream keepers of the sacred, archetypal stories that arise from our collective unconscious, were to embrace one another and celebrate the ancient beauty of our various traditions. Imagine if we spiritual people held hands across the world and called [...]
101, actually, or 102 if you count this one. </nerd>
Weather can’t quite make up its mind, and neither can I.
But apparently John Edwards can. I think his decision is a good one for party unity, but I’m still sad he didn’t do better.
Joyful for the kids, less so for the stay-at-home parent. Sigh!
I’ve written before about how much I love Mavis Staples’ 2007 “We’ll Never Turn Back.” There’s something about Staples’ voice that just makes me believe.
In the liner notes, she writes about how her dad, Pops Staples, heard Martin Luther King Jr. speaking in 1963 and was encouraged to add songs of protest and social [...]
I remember a moment several years ago when I realized that most love songs can (sometimes with a bit of adjustment) be directed to a child as well as a lover.
I had a similar moment last week while listening to A Prairie Home Companion. Suzy Bogguss, always a reliable source of breakup songs (cf. [...]
So I haven’t written much about church lately. That’s because I haven’t been since the first week in November. I thought about going Christmas Eve; I’ve thought about going every Sunday since; but something, mostly my own inertia, has always come up.
Last week I got the news that their pastor, who has been there for [...]
Generally my brain seems set on “random fire,” but every now and then my thoughts start to coalesce around a theme.
This latest theme was launched while the Talented and Gifted coordinator and I watched our very methodical high-school chess player/chess club helper decide which 10 of 32 elementary-school chess players should be chosen for the [...]
… is a permeable one, I’ve discovered, and one that my son enjoys daring.
This morning I woke him up, as I often do, with a meant-to-be-slightly-annoying chorus of “Good Morning To You!” Without missing a beat, he stuck his head up and sang,
Good morning to you, good morning to you
I don’t want breakfast, [...]
I have heard the charge of “Theocracy!” so often that the threat is beginning to lose its punch; it’s possible that we could miss it when a genuine example occurs. Vide Mike Huckabee:
“[Some of my opponents] do not want to change the Constitution, but I believe it’s a lot easier to change the Constitution [...]
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