this is me living vicariously through my friends chris and chelsea that saw u2 at madison square garden

this is an actual picture they took at the concert.
they were that close.

lots going on in the coming weeks.
posting might be sparse.
this is not a publicity stunt.

if you think of it- please pray for me and charles.

thanks lots my peeps.

clarify...
i truly believe stevie wonder's superstition to be one of the finest soul songs ever recorded.

if i am sad, you can play it for me and i will breakdance for you.
involuntarily.

this is a truth that stands in the equally true statement that i have zero desire to buy mr. wonder's new album.

today's chewable vitamin:
"rob. top 5 musical crimes perpetrated by stevie wonder in the 80s and 90s.
go.
sub-question:
is it in fact unfair to criticize a formerly great artist for his latter day sins...
is it better to burn out or fade awaaay?"
~ barry (jack black) from high fidelity.

twenty posts in one
i got a lot on my mind lately. unfortunately, i don't have my usual constant access to a computer- so this dump post will have to suffice. here is an assortment of the things on my mind. they include, happy things, sad things, things that make me nervous, and things that make me angry.

some things i am happy about...
my friend lori (from college) is in china right now to bring her daughter bethany home.
i found a site that only reports happy news. i like.
and john is in cambodia.

things that make me angry...
the situation in darfur worsens while the united states u.n. abassador stands in the way of progress.

bill bennett is fully of crap and not enough people know it. book of virtues my ass... and the secretary of education to boot? he claims his quote(from his radio show late last month) was taken out of context and won't apologize (you can read more about the context here...). if nothing else, he should apologize for the lack of dicernment one must have to use the 'example' that he used to prove a point. what an bullheaded idiot. you can read more here, here and here

some things that make me sad...
harpers article by jonathan kozol. if you're not reading kozol- you should be. he is truly the voice in the desert about issues on education in underserved areas of our country.

some things that make me nervous...
lagos. from accounts we're hearing from family, the unrest in lagos lately is worrisome. please pray for our family's saftey.

president bush doesn't hate poor people- he's just indifferent to them... the senate was pitched a cut to food stamp dollars last week. this is the solution of a 'fiscally conservative' bush adminstration instead of raising taxes to pay for katrina recovery. except the administration has planned to cut funds long ago. using katrina will just make it more palladable. this is not a good idea.

SIDE BAR RANT... read this interesting list. activism and knowledge are good and neccessary things for amercians to have when it comes to poverty. but clearly, that's not enough. i am growing to really 'get' that we need(and pardon my perhaps inapproapirate use of my limited greek)- epignosis and not just gnosis when it comes to issues like poverty. we all need the expereince of knowing people who need the NFSP and help apply for those services. i want a heart knowledge of poverty.

today's chewable vitamin:
“each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope... building a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance." ~ robert f. kennedy

updates:

i was a crazy kid last night and stayed up to watch conan. i love conan but i seldom watch anymore b/c i'm too old to stay up that late. but as you probably know the entire hour was with U2- and i couldn't help myself. i am paying for it today b/c my eyelids are involuntarily closing b/c they are heavy with sleep- or lack there of...

needless to say, just when you think you couldn't love your first love anymore than you already do- it goes deeper and wider. watching u2 last night reaffirmed to me just how astute of a eleven year old i was in 1984.

unfortunatley, bono didn't win the noble peace prize. nor did jeffery sachs. but you can read about the guy that did here... a worthy man for sure. i am disappointed nonetheless.

tonight, i will be with the lovely three and a half year old named laurel. we will do our nails and sing some songs and have lots of fun. i am looking forward to it.

charles has his intensive this weekend and will be m.i.a.. other plans include, but are not limited to, going to the harvest festival at the north market, cleaning, filing, organizing, reading and walking through piles of leaves to hear that great sound they make. i will be recooping from one of the biggest downer weeks i've had in a while.

today's chewable vitamin:

"one of the greatest injustices we do to our young people is to ask them to be conservative. Christianity is not conservative, but revolutionary. to be conservative today is to miss the whole point, for conservatisim means to stand in the flow of the status quo, and the status quo no longer belongs to us... if we want to be fair, we must teach the young to be revolutionaries, revolutionaries aginst the status quo." ~ francis schaeffer

how come i didn't know
that lauryn hill totally rawks the house?

oh- and maggie turned four and had a tea party to celebrate!

i love you maggie!




today's chewable vitamin

"1 If you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, 2 then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and purpose. 3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. 4 Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others. 5 Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus:

6 Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, 7 but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. 8 And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death— even death on a cross!

9 Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, 10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. "
philippians 2. 1-11