There is a crack in everything. That is how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen It seems like we are all mired in some kind of mud right now. I know for me, it's the loss of a lot of things: a friend, a family member, knowing my friends in NC, SC and GA are digging out of actual, literal mud from the hurricane. (And don't even get me started on the [...]
We don’t think ourselves into a new way of living. We live ourselves into a new way of thinking. – Richard Rohr How do you respond to the above quote from my personal “guidance counselor,” Fr. Rohr? Does it make sense to you? I was raised to believe in God and that Jesus was The Son. There was a lot of modeling in my family for what Christian love is. My Mom was [...]
I'm not here to sell you on anything -- if you like the music, thanks! if you like talking about spiritual stuff, awesome! if you like history and trivia, fabumundo! But I'm not selling anything other than, well...I guess the word that comes to mind is: connection. And then another word after that: community. We all have a very unique journey in our lives. My observation is that how we live basically comes [...]
Why do an album of hymns anyway? The word comes from the Greek "hymnos," a sacred song or poem. Since most everything having to do with the Christian church was translated through the Greeks, that's why we call our church songs "hymns" now (our Jewish brothers and sisters call them "piyutim" and our Muslim family calls them "nasheeds"). To be honest, I'm not the biggest fan of the traditional Christian hymnal. [...]
At the risk of sounding like a vinyl curmudgeon, there was once a time you’d buy an actual record album in an actual walk-in store. It was an event. Then you’d go home, unwrap it, put it on the turntable, and while it played, you’d read the liner notes and lyrics to all the songs. It’s an interesting fact that vinyl album sales are currently outpacing CDs and digital downloads. That means there [...]
