It's really late.
(It is now August 30, 2005. I have returned to edit the disjointed contents that follow. They look fine now, so enjoy. Love, The Ghost of August 29...)
And I have no time. But I have to say something, because my guess is I won't be back for quite awhile.
Highlights from babysitting last weekend:
~flying on the trampoline
~making paper dolls
~reading The Great Divorce
~hearing stories about Africa
~watching the fish
~not having a single mis-hap.
A brief review:
Nickel Creek's latest cd, summed in one word, would be bitter. Bitter of all sorts: sweet, angry, sad, and tired.
If you would like to get a taste of it, try the e-card link. The sound bites are a bit longer than Amazon's.
Worldview. There are three (at least) songs dealing with relational infidelity (though all but one put it in an absolutely negative light), and then there's the title track: Why Should the Fire Die, which is the plea of a husband to his wife:
I know I'll never understand you, but please let me keep trying.
Every song (except When in Rome, Doubting Thomas, and the instrumental tracks) is a love song of some sort. That's strange, but I think most songs come back to that, no matter who's singing them and what genre they are.
Doubting Thomas disturbs me, because it has very distinctly Christian innuendo in it, but loudly declares that NOTHING is safe. As if instability was the only dependable thing in the world.
Not for easy, casual listening.
And there. I've warned you. My advice would be: don't buy it for the above reason. It's best to just hear it once all the way through every now and then when you have an hour to kill.
Also, I'm reading this marvelous book. A Chance to Die, by Elisabeth Eliot. A biography of Amy Carmichael.
I've noticed so far:
~Amy's determination to go without knowing where she was going . She spent time in Japan, learned the language, then left for Ceylon, where she also learned the native tongue. It was amazing how she threw herself into her present tasks without asking any questions.
~How much she worked as a missionary before she ever went overseas.
~How Christ's command to count the cost had an impact on her decisions--she left when it was unpopular to be a missionary. Today, we glorify overseas work as if it were some sort of glamour celebrity job (or I have seen it made out to be so), but then it was really frowned upon.
Well, Mama really thinks I should be in bed. And I really agree. More on the book will appear later, perhaps.
Good-night.
And I have no time. But I have to say something, because my guess is I won't be back for quite awhile.
Highlights from babysitting last weekend:
~flying on the trampoline
~making paper dolls
~reading The Great Divorce
~hearing stories about Africa
~watching the fish
~not having a single mis-hap.
A brief review:
Nickel Creek's latest cd, summed in one word, would be bitter. Bitter of all sorts: sweet, angry, sad, and tired.
If you would like to get a taste of it, try the e-card link. The sound bites are a bit longer than Amazon's.
Worldview. There are three (at least) songs dealing with relational infidelity (though all but one put it in an absolutely negative light), and then there's the title track: Why Should the Fire Die, which is the plea of a husband to his wife:
I know I'll never understand you, but please let me keep trying.
Every song (except When in Rome, Doubting Thomas, and the instrumental tracks) is a love song of some sort. That's strange, but I think most songs come back to that, no matter who's singing them and what genre they are.
Doubting Thomas disturbs me, because it has very distinctly Christian innuendo in it, but loudly declares that NOTHING is safe. As if instability was the only dependable thing in the world.
Not for easy, casual listening.
And there. I've warned you. My advice would be: don't buy it for the above reason. It's best to just hear it once all the way through every now and then when you have an hour to kill.
Also, I'm reading this marvelous book. A Chance to Die, by Elisabeth Eliot. A biography of Amy Carmichael.
I've noticed so far:
~Amy's determination to go without knowing where she was going . She spent time in Japan, learned the language, then left for Ceylon, where she also learned the native tongue. It was amazing how she threw herself into her present tasks without asking any questions.
~How much she worked as a missionary before she ever went overseas.
~How Christ's command to count the cost had an impact on her decisions--she left when it was unpopular to be a missionary. Today, we glorify overseas work as if it were some sort of glamour celebrity job (or I have seen it made out to be so), but then it was really frowned upon.
Well, Mama really thinks I should be in bed. And I really agree. More on the book will appear later, perhaps.
Good-night.
posted by Unknown at 8:07 PM
4 Comments:
...so glad you got to read The Great Divorce. I really like that book! Jumping on the trampoline sounds like a blast. We used to have one but we gave it away before we moved to OK...I miss it a lot. I was actually pretty good at jumping on it and doing tricks!!!I would love to have another one...
Good to hear about what you've been doing, Pippin.
Maybe I should listen to that CD, just for the worldview. It sounds very, very interesting. If, that is, I can ignore Chris's awful voice. :)
Ha. Trust a Took to make Nickel Creek sound interesting. :P Well, you'd love the instrumentals anyway.
Read the biography. It's great.
Not that you don't already have reading assignments piled up to your eyebrows...
Is it from the library? The book. Sister1 has a hold one the one in the library.
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