A Mending Shift

a bird sings, not because if has an answer to give, but because it has a song to sing … this is my song

Dancing out of Captivity

| April 26, 2011

Share I was once at a wedding at which an incident occurred; in fact, it was more an event. The wedding breakfast was over and the music had begun. An older woman was there. She was a quiet person who kept to herself, a shy country woman who was invited because she was a next-door [...]

O Night Divine (or not)

| December 23, 2008

Share I wanted to bless you with this beautiful rendition of one of my all time favorite Christmas songs, O Holy Night. It moved me so much that it brought tears to my eyes (in addition to killing a few cats and shattering our double pane windows). Enjoy and Merry Christmas! (You can thank or [...]

The Evolution of Dance

| August 4, 2008

ShareIf you like music and/or dance, you’ll really appreciate this. I laughed, I cried (well, not really), and it almost got me to dance: [The Evolution of Dance.com] P.S. Not sure why I am on this dance kick as of late. Perhaps it is some deeply buried Freudian response to compensate for my lack of [...]

My Wife’s Sunday Morning Humor – A Love Balled by Tripod: Gonna Make You Happy

| July 27, 2008

ShareOMG. So I get out of the shower this morning to find my wife crouching over the MAC saying, “You have to watch this…it is so funny!” So she begins playing this love ballad and by the time it is over all of us, including my son, were dying in laughter as we sang in [...]

God’s Love Makes Everything (and everyone) Beautiful Again

| June 10, 2008

ShareI used to listen to this song REALLY loud while reclining in my Jeep with its top off, parked on a country hillside in Texas void of lights with a brilliant star studded sky stretched out above me. I would simply lie there with this song repeating and letting the words soak in. It had [...]

God’s Love Makes Everything (and everyone) Beautiful Again

| June 10, 2008

ShareI used to listen to this song REALLY loud while reclining in my Jeep with its top off, parked on a country hillside in Texas void of lights with a brilliant star studded sky stretched out above me. I would simply lie there with this song repeating and letting the words soak in. It had [...]

It’s Mother’s Day…A Little Help, Please?

| May 11, 2008

Share OK. So Mother’s Day has arrived once more and I am torn between these two videos to send. Which one would you send to your mom? Happy Mother’s day, mom! I love you!

Not Sure Why…

| April 30, 2008

Share…I am posting this song, but I’ve always been a closet Neil Diamond fan (back off, you like him too) and when I saw him sing this song live, it resonated with me, though I am not sure why… “I Am,” I Said L.A.’s fine, the sun shines most the time And the feeling is [...]

What Is My Music—and Who Will Play It?

| April 23, 2008

Share Have you ever been reading a book and got to a sentence—or thought—that stops you in your tracks? Where you try to continue reading, but the gravitational pull of the sentence keeps bring you back to its words? Then that moment comes when you resist fighting it, dog-ear the page, put the book down [...]