Happy Father’s Day!
P. S. I decided to go back and watch the original “Can’t Touch This” music video, and my three-year-old son Sam asked why MC Hammer kept saying “Break it down!”
Songs of Summer
With the passing of Memorial Day, summer is unofficially here. I started thinking on my drive to work yesterday that I’m ready for a new summer song, a song that embodies a significant summer experience for me. I don’t always have a summer song. In fact, I really have only two official summer songs. They are as follows:
1996 - “Country Road (Live)” by James Taylor. This was my second summer working at the Arkansas Baptist Assembly youth camp in Siloam Springs, AR. My friend James (Taylor) and I were the sound and video guys for the summer. One of our simple pleasures was going in the auditorium early in the morning before any of the campers arrived and listening to “Country Road” over the sound system. That song defines my summer of 1996.
2003 - “Crazy In Love” by Beyonce. Some might think this is an odd choice for me, but those that know me best will understand my love of this song. It was a fun song for one of the most enjoyable summers of my life. Jennifer and I were on staff with Passport Youth Camps in Wingate, NC. (Another camp experience) Our staff really enjoyed having fun together, so the song fits for me.
I’m not really sure what this summer holds. I’m in a new place with new people, and new experiences lie ahead, but I’d love to come out on the other end with a new summer song.
Do you have summer songs?
I’m tagging Jennifer, JT, Ashley, Rob, and Lisha who doesn’t have a blog.
Pork and Beans
If you read this blog with any regularity (yes, I’m talking you, my one reader), you know that I’m a bit of a YouTube junkie. Well, not quite a junkie, but I really, really like to watch stuff on YouTube. That’s why I’m a fan of the video “Pork and Beans” by the band Weezer. If you don’t recognize any of the YouTube cameos in the video, this article will help.
Enjoy.
I’m not big on mass emails, so…
Hi,
The world hunger crisis is all over the news this week. In just three years, the price of staple foods like wheat, corn and rice has almost doubled. If we don’t do something soon, hundreds of thousands of people face starvation and a hundred million more could fall into extreme poverty.
I just took action with the ONE Campaign and you can too, here:
Quote of the Day
“The world is overcome not through destruction, but through reconciliation. Not ideals, nor programs, nor conscience, nor duty, nor responsibility, nor virtue, but only God’s perfect love can encounter reality and overcome it. Nor is it some universal idea of love, but rather the love of God in Jesus Christ, a love genuinely lived, that does this.”
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer from Meditations on the Cross
(ht to Sojourners)
Quote of the Day
“What unspeakable comfort and strength is ours to know that in the midst of all our mischief, amid our scheming and bad speculations, regardless of our shaping, misshaping or reshaping of life, with all of our activities and failures, God is among us. God is not a graven image of our own longings and shortcomings. Rather God, through Christ, is among us as friend, advocate, savior, and above all as our living Lord, to correct, to forgive, to comfort, to love, and to heal.”
- John A. Stroman from The Thunder from the Mountain
(ht to Sojourners Verse and Voice)
If you haven’t watched this, you should.
I am, of course, biased in my support of Barack Obama as a presidential candidate, but I think that his speech on race and politics is worth the watch. (You can watch and read the transcript here.)
