Ozark Oddments: Sweet Honey

Monday, August 04, 2008

Sweet Honey

Ok... just stop what you are doing right now, and go here and click on segment 3, and listen. You'll have to wait for an introductory remark by Garrison Keillor, but that won't do you any harm.

Then listen to these women. These amazing women. Then weep or shout or laugh, or dance around the room for joy at the beauty of the of the songs, if you're able that is, and I'm not quite up for that yet, but I would if I could. There are two songs, so wait till the end.

Israel will be fed with the finest flour
and satisfied with honey from the rocks. Psalm 81:16

Go. Now. Listen

2 comments:

Adriee said...: @I enjoyed that beautiful harmony. Very nice, indeed...; 10:19 PM
Lil Sis said...: Adrianne didn't leave that comment... Somehow her google acct showed up and I accessed it.. I don't know; 10:21 PM

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Thoughts to ponder

Most of us go through life so absorbed in the cocoon of ourselves that we rarely stop to consider the other. Of course, we think that we do; indeed, we may pride ourselves on our capacity for empathy; we may be considerate and thoughtful in our dealings with others, but how often do we stand before them. so to speak, and experience what it is to be them?--Domenica Macdonald

The Unbearable Lightness of Scones, by Alexander McCall
Smith

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Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering -- because you can't take it in all at once. --Audrey Hepburn

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I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all, I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.--Agatha Christie

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Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.--Katharine Hepburn

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One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

"Two people... told me that the word "Christian" would turn people off. I wouldn't mind if to be a Christian were accepted as being the dangerous thing which it is. I wouldn't mind if, when a group of Christians meet for bread and wine, we might well be interrupted and jailed for subversive activities. I wouldn't mind if, once again, we were being thrown to the lions. I do mind, desperately, that the word "Christian" means for so many people smugness, and piosity, and holier-than-thoughness. Who, today, can recognize a Christian because of "how those Christians love one another"?--Madeline L'Engle, "A Circle of Quiet"