![]() Sometimes I think my driving may suffer, but so far so good. This song gets my Barbara Stanwyck alter ego all charged up and ready to go. Josh Ritter and Trampled by Turtles! Great choices for me, especially the TBT–nothing gets me going in the morning like 21st century bluegrass! Here is my favorite song, titled appropriately “Walt Whitman”: Thanks also to daughter #2 for sending her old mama some new music! I just continue to lower my expectations! From time to time I threaten to leave, but I probably won’t. But fear not, my relationship with the Episcopal Church, though a love/hate one, is a long-term one. Dear daughter #2 shared this quote with me yesterday with the suggestion that “it’s nice to fall back on the Transcendentalist ideas if the institution of the church is failing you.” I guess my recent posts had her a little worried. This is a long quote, but I hope you read the whole thing and did not skim. And this because the heart in thee is the heart of all not a valve, not a wall, not an intersection is there anywhere in nature, but one blood rolls uninterruptedly an endless circulation through all men, as the water of the globe is all one sea, and, truly seen, its tide is one.” Every friend whom not thy fantastic will but the great and tender heart in thee craveth, shall lock thee in his embrace. Has it not occurred to you that you have no right to go, unless you are equally willing to be prevented from going? O, believe, as thou livest, that every sound that is spoken over the round world, which thou oughtest to hear, will vibrate on thine ear! Every proverb, every book, every byword that belongs to thee for aid or comfort, shall surely come home through open or winding passages. You are preparing with eagerness to go and render a service to which your talent and your taste invite you, the love of men and the hope of fame. If you do not find him, will you not acquiesce that it is best you should not find him? for there is a power, which, as it is in you, is in him also, and could therefore very well bring you together, if it were for the best. Let your feet run, but your mind need not. The things that are really for thee gravitate to thee. He believes that he cannot escape from his good. In the presence of law to his mind he is overflowed with a reliance so universal that it sweeps away all cherished hopes and the most stable projects of mortal condition in its flood. He is sure that his welfare is dear to the heart of being. He has not the conviction, but the sight, that the best is the true, and may in that thought easily dismiss all particular uncertainties and fears, and adjourn to the sure revelation of time the solution of his private riddles. It is the doubling of the heart itself, nay, the infinite enlargement of the heart with a power of growth to a new infinity on every side. How dear, how soothing to man, arises the idea of God, peopling the lonely place, effacing the scars of our mistakes and disappointments! When we have broken our god of tradition and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with his presence. The simplest person who in his integrity worships God, becomes God yet for ever and ever the influx of this better and universal self is new and unsearchable. “Ineffable is the union of man and God in every act of the soul. Who can say when or how it will be that something easters up out of the dimness to remind us of a time before we were born and after we will die? There is a fragrance in the air, a certain passage of a song, an old photograph falling out from the pages of a book, the sound of somebody’s voice in the hall that makes your heart leap and fills your eyes with tears. I leave you with a beautiful passage from Frederick Buechner, to whose brilliant insights my dual personality introduced my many years ago. I had trouble finding exactly the right bit, but you’ll get the idea. And if the movie itself didn’t stand the test of time, the music still moves. ![]() I know it by heart the way I know old phone numbers or the poems I had to memorize for school. I was so afraid I would forget the main theme that I hummed it constantly for days until I was sure I wouldn’t forget. It was a big shock when in college I discovered how bad it really is, but when I saw the movie for the first time, I was smitten - it was the music that really got to me. ![]() It was my favorite holiday in part because of the movie, “King of Kings,” which I thought was awesome. Despite the sweet tooth, as a child I took Easter very seriously.
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