I got up early to open the church for the voting polls. The church was already opened and the heat was on. Oh well.
On the way back home I put on one of my favorite CD’s. It’s titled “Two Car Garage.” The CD is re-recorded hits by the Ventures and the Fabulous Wailers both greats from Seattle and the NW. One of my favorite tunes is “Our of Our Tree.”
The lyrics are a treat something like looking at a painting by Picasso or Salvador Dali. Here’s one line, “Saw a woman wearing a gown made of a paper kite, we asked her why she does such a crazy thing. she answers if you to get of the ground if you want to fly.” Awesome! The guitar lick line was in fact copied by the Rolling Stones in there song Satisfaction.
But the best parts are where there are about three blood curdling screams. The rock and roll kind from the 60’s. I had to practice myself. Doing a thing as simple as this scream isn’t as easy as ti sounds. I just don’t have it. When I write a song it comes out something like Neil Young mixed with Barry Manilow. NO screams!
I like the energy of this music. I like a clear driving bass line. Some of my more recent favorites are Switchfoot, U2, Reckless Abandone, Coldplay and Mutemouth. I am not so keen on Christian Music. Really there is no such thing…there is just music with Christian words.
I was also asked the other day who my favorite authors are. I would say right now they are Erwin McManus, Frederick Muechner, Phil Yancy, Robert Fulgm, Chiam Potok and Herman Hesse – and Mark Twain. Steinbeck isn’t bad either.
Another person asked me what I was studying now…. actually I am reading a great deal about motivation and change. There are some fabulous studies out. I can’t get enough of Martin Seligman. And I continue by pursuit of grasping the problem of evil and pain. That’s big one I have been chasing for 30 years. I am also reading a great deal on the Trinity and the Holy Spirit……and the atonement.
So I am busy.
Oh yes another person asked how I read the Bible. I read one chapter of an old testament book, a psalm, a chapter of the gospels, and two chapters of Paul’s epistles every day. Inever run short of things to pray or say.
DM
