Here's another quotation from Kathleen Norris' book:
Eugene Ionesco wrote that "there is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think we live in alienation: in one way or another...humanity has always had a nostalgia for the freedom that is only beauty, that is only real life, plenitude, light." Heaven or hell? Either place is withing our reach, for we carry it within us. Today is the first day, and the last. Heaven or hell: this is the moment, here, now. Make of it what you will.Posted by tripp at October 31, 2008 07:26 AM
Hi!
Justin Thornburgh responded to my request for good Epiphany sermons with this link to your blog:
http://www.anglobaptist.org/blog/archives/2008/01/sermon_get_lost_1.html
I am on the programming committee of a lay-led Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, and we are planning our second Winterfaith program for December and January. Winterfaith is a series of religious services that celebrate and explore the winter traditions of many faiths. You can learn a bit more about Winterfaith at this link:
http://www.mtvernonuuf.org/winterfaith.html
I am in charge of delivering a sermon for the holiday of Epiphany on January 4th. I was hoping I could obtain permission from you to use all or part of your sermon called "Get Lost" in which I linked to above.
I have looked around your blog in general, and think it is quite good and interesting. Justin and I went to high school together, and he speaks very highly of you.
Thanks for your consideration!
Shannon Green
Posted by: Shannon at October 31, 2008 10:34 AMchris thile & edgar meyer received an immediate
standing ovation this past wednesday night.
i believe after attending the concert that everybody deep down inside is really a country bumpkin. there were 2 russian girls in front of me, an asian couple behind me who loved them.
also, this native new yorker lady said that she couldn't keep from smiling the whole concert.
chris is hot as well as an excellent mandolin player. however, i really was into edgar, the double bassist. he made some really cool sounds on the instrument. he also would start some dissonance stuff while chris played melody, then
chris would add some dissonant melody notes to complement edgar's dissonance. i think that is their brilliance.
they are also very funny.
some of mine and my colleagues' fav songs:
the pick, the interlude in the farmer & the duck,
one winter's night, i wasn't talking to you.
and of course, their encore, sweet georgia brown.
Posted by: teresa at October 31, 2008 03:21 PM