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Our Daily Thread 5-4-13

Good Morning! 🙂

The weekend has arrived, and it’s supposed to be a nice one here in our neck of the woods. 🙂

On this day in 1626 a Dutch explorer named Peter Minuit landed on Manhattan Island.

In 1776 Rhode Island declared its freedom from England two months before the Declaration of Independence was adopted.

In 1930 Mahatma Gandhi was arrested by the British.

In 1942 the Battle of the Coral Sea commenced between American and Japanese forces. It was also the day the U.S. began food rationing.

In 1970 Ohio National Guardsmen fired on students during an anti-war protest at Kent State University. Four students were killed, nine others were wounded.

In 1979 Margaret Thatcher became Britain’s first woman prime minister.

And in 1989 Oliver North was convicted of shredding documents and two other crimes. He was acquitted of nine other charges in the Iran-Contra affair. The convictions were later vacated and dismissed.

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Quote of the Day

“It’s that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so don’t fuss, dear; get on with it.”

Audrey  Hepburn

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Today we have Dick Dale, the “King of the Surf Guitar”

We might as well stick with the surfer sound…

 

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Who has a QoD for us?

52 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 5-4-13”

  4. I am applied the first layer of sunscreen. SPF 50 on face and upper body. SPF 30 on the rest. I am headed to the beach where I plan to re-apply sunscreen as needed and read mindless books

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  5. KBells,

    With all due respect, Southern Rock is Country with more electric guitars. Only you southerners consider that to be Rock. 🙂

    I’m growing to like Country more as I age though, but I can’t say the same for Southern Rock.

    But with me, in case you hadn’t noticed, it’s all about the guitars. Regardless of genre, a good guitar player is easy to listen too. Even your Southern stuff. Even Prince. 🙂

    Soooooo…..

    And I’m sorry, but Eddie Van Halen is #1 in MHO.

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  9. I agree with kbells about surfer music. Blecch! The only one I liked was “Wipeout”, mainly because the only lyric was the title every so often. Great drum and guitar throughout. But British rock was good as well.

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  12. Chas, Close your eyes and ears for what comes next.

    AJ, I enjoyed your video of the 30 best guitarists. However, any list that excludes Allen Collins is fatally flawed. What he does at the 6:56 mark of the following video is probably the most famous guitar riff in rock history. It sure ain’t country.

    http://youtu.be/kKZfRAuY-M4

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  15. Interesting guitarist survey, too — Clapton, Page, Townsend, Santana. I think BB King played at our high school once (as did Richie Havens, who recently died 😦 ).

    Havens came just months before he performed at Woodstock which pretty much launched is wider career and fame. But at the time, those of us without access to FM radio anyway, weren’t particularly familiar with him yet. He played for several of our combined music & English classes in a classroom setting.

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  16. My oh my…what interesting music we have going on here this morning! I have never heard of the “Freebird” song…I believe I was having a baby that year… 🙂
    I grew up listening to the Beatles, Beach Boys, Cat Stevens,Carol King, Lovin’ Spoonful….and my all time favorites…James Taylor and Crosby,Stills,Nash…and oh yeah….Young!…..A friend posted on FB today the youtube video of CSNY protest song..OHIO…Kent State Massacre..my home state…I remember it well…a very sad day in history….

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  17. I just finished reading What Happened to Sophie Wilder, a book Olasky recommended in an entire article in World.. It’s an interesting book, but not an easy read. It has lots of characters who pop up several chapters later when you’ve forgotten what part they have. Also, it’s often difficult to tell which epoch you’re in. It starts out with all the important characters in school. The action covers several years with flashbacks.
    All of the characters are writers, or aspiring writers. The protagonist is an aspiring writer named Charlie. Charlie is in love with Sophie, enough said about that. All the important characters are Catholic, except Tom’s father. He is nothing.
    It’s an adult read. They talk about things that I never heard a woman discuss until I was a 41 yr old grad student at Purdue. Not pornographic in that no action is described, just things that boys and girls do. Sophie did lots of it.
    It isn’t a “chick story”, but I suspect the ladies would enjoy the book more than most men. And especially those interested in writing.
    Random would understand the argument of Sophie’s father-in-law. Fits well with his philosophy. But, as Sophie says, “Once you have been made to exist, you have no choice but to do so forever. There is no escape for anyone”. i.e. You can’t choose not to exist.
    The book is divided into two sections. The second part has some very intense reading, and intense lay theology. It contains some extraneous material, which makes me believe that the story relates to something in the author’s own experience.
    I can’t tell you what happened to Sophie Wilder, but as for Charlie, “I could disappear from my life and no one would really notice that I was gone”.
    Like Olasky, I highly recommend the book. Especially to the ladies.

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  18. OK fine, Free Bird. One of maybe 10 exceptions. ZZ Top has most of the other 9.

    🙂 🙂

    I was just teasing KBells. But I’m just not a fan myself, but as they say, opinions vary. 🙂

    And Free Bird proves my point about good guitar being easy to listen to, regardless of genre. 🙂

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  22. Hello, all. Just got back from running errands and getting my nails done with my girls and a friend of Lindsey’s. Becca’s piano recital is tonight at 6:00. This piano teacher has many young students, so there are a lot of kids playing very easy pieces. It’s supposed to last 2 1/2 hours….quite a lot of listening! I just put the cookies I’m supposed to bring in the oven.

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  23. Tychicus, I commented on the article.
    It’s tough on young people who want direction to their lives. How did I do it?
    I just walked through every door that was open. I once tried to pry some doors, but I saw that it wasn’t working. Then direction came one step at a time.

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  25. Thanks for the link, Tychicus, I’d seen mention of that somewhere but hadn’t read the full article. Interesting, I’ve picked up pieces of that message here and there but it helped to put it into its larger context of what may be going on with the young generation of Christians. Tough expectations to live up to!

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  26. And there are no guitars in this, just a teenager and her border collie. But it’s still pretty cool to watch. 🙂

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  32. Freebird??? Really??? Somebody needs to break out the Camero.
    Lynyrd Skynyrd? Well I have already admitted to dancing on table tops at the Flora-Bama so you may as well know what you dance on the floor to

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  33. Which reminds me…Last night we went uptown for First Friday Art Walk. Mr. P. wanted to go to The Gumbo Shack which has been featured on Diner, Drive-ins, and Dives (I you ever come to visit me I won’t take you there. Who likes Gumbo with a BBQ flavor???) Anyway there was a band. Two white guys and two black guys. The black guy same Chicken Fried by Zac Brown and afterwards gave a Rebel Yell….told you race relations were complicated in the South. Cracked me up.

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  36. Kim,

    I’ll see your 3 Steps and raise you a Sharp Dressed Man. I mean really, who doesn’t love a sharp dressed man? 😉

    That’s a classic like Free Bird. 🙂

    But I like this one better. Also in my top 10 SR. 🙂

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  37. Re – Tychicus’ link: Bradley’s article didn’t convince me. I have read David Platt’s book Radical. It was our pastor (who never gets involved in the latest fad) who gave my family the book to read; which we all did, and were challenged by it. But at the same time as I was preparing to come here, my younger sibling was preparing for marriage to the man of her heart. I am now here, seriously contemplating a lifetime of such overseas work; while she is happily settling into domesticity and preparing for the birth of her first child. We both wanted to do the Lord’s work and found it in very different settings (it is somewhat ironic, as she is outgoing and always wanted to travel, while I am painfully shy and always had a fear of flying).

    Then again, we might have been protected from feeling any obligation to sell all our goods and go unto the ends of the earth by our early encounters with the legalism which the preceding generation got caught up in – the kind that promised if families returned to these Biblical principles (laid out in neat groups of seven, twelve or even forty) then their children would never rebel, listen to rock music or incur student debt by attending a worldly university, and as a bonus, they would help save Western civilization (I do not exaggerate – I have heard all those claims).

    No, Millenials generally are sick of new formulas and secrets to successful Christian living and not likely to get really caught up in another radical movement. In fact, my first thought on Platt’s book was, “What a stupid title!” as I had already heard the words ‘Radical Christianity’ ad nauseaum from several different angles for several years. We are also weary of slick programs and cool entertainments. They say we are narcissistic (to which I ask how we are more so than, say, the generation which produced the sexual revolution) but they fail to recognize the cynicism which promotes the self-centred behaviour. People who have seen it all, don’t want to be bothered with it all. The peers that I know who have left the Baptist circle we grew up in have gone one of two ways: an all-out, devil-may-care journey to perdition, or kept the faith but turned to more ceremonial religious observances (eg. Catholicism). Energetic effort in any one direction, including those suggested by Bradley, only further alienates them. The Church simply can’t be built by human effort, no matter how brilliant the scheme. “The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth. So is every one that is born of the Spirit.” – John 3:8

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  38. Good ones, AJ.

    Back in the 1970s male Texans listened to regular country like George Jones and Charlie Pride (with our parents), all kinds of Rock, and old stuff like the Rolling Stones, Supremes and the Beatles. But our favorite stuff was:

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  39. Who da thunk a Christian blog would have so many rock and roll songs in one thread. Gotta love Christian liberty. (And that is not meant to be sarcasm or criticism. I only wish my DSL would load youtube videos faster than 15 – 30 minutes for a five minute video.)

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  41. Went for a long walk today with hubby and the dog. I heard rustling in the bush next to the road and worried that it was a bear. Hubby smiled and said probably a beaver, so we kept walking. On the return trip, a short ways past where I heard the noises, hubby looks back and says “there’s your bear for you”. I completely freak, jump sideways, look back and… there’s a muskrat out on the ice of the lake. All that adrenalin for no reason at all.

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  42. Ricky, Waylon was fantastic. Who else could come up with a line like “we’ve always been crazy, but it’s kept us from going insane” and have it make perfect sense? His voice was much smoother than Johnny Cash’s but they are forever linked in my mind musically.
    I don’t understand some of the newer country music—I mean Taylor Swift? Really? Could she just go away and sing jingles somewhere?
    I have rediscovered some good Dwight Yoakum. Currently my Country Theme Song is Miranda Lambert’s This Ain’t My Mama’s Broken Heart. EVERY southern child at some time has been told “I raised you better than this”. 😉 Bet you’ve heard it!

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  45. This is a very interesting thread which I did not get to see until this afternoon. We were up in Chattanooga for our son’s graduation from Covenant College. It was at the Chattanooga Convention Center yesterday while the rain was pounding on the roof. It was a great time despite the rain. Bagpipes brought in the procession of the 2013 Scots graduates. A really good keynote address was given by the man in charge of the President’s malaria program which has bipartisan support. Our son had some red and black cords to wear to indicate he is a member of the English honor society and none in our family have ever dealt with anything like that so my brother was trying to attach them to the cap where the tassel goes. Then our son found out they just go around the neck and hang down. 🙂

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  46. What I love about life today.
    Went to church
    Went to Wal Mart where I am ashamed to say I ran into my friend Jimmy, his daughter didn’t make the cheerleading squad at UK 😦
    Ran into my aunt. Today is my uncles 76 birthday
    Ran into several more people I knew
    Bought groceries for the week except meat.
    Came home, at lunch, cleaned housed, did yardwork and now I am off to the pier so Mr P can fish. I don’t fish. I have resumed my old habits of sunning myself and reading a book while someone else fishes 🙂

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  47. What kind of fish does Mr P catch? I have enjoyed fishing in the past, but it has been a long time since I have fished. Probably the last place I went fishing was with my son and some other friends at the Stone Mountain Lake. The children could fish, but the adults could not without a license. Nothing was caught, but it was fun for the boys to think they might catch something.

    We did some fishing in Sunday School this morning. I had a yard stick to which I attached a string and a fish with a magnet on its back that usually lives on my refrigerator. I had some die cut fish I got from Party City that I attached paper clips to and on one side of each fish I had a word of a Bible verse. It was a challenge to get the magnetized fish to flip over so the magnet could catch onto a clip and get a fish. The caught fish then had to be put in order to make the verse. The children seemed to enjoy the challenge of that activity.

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  48. Has anyone heard from Makeitman lately? I have not been on here everyday so I may have not seen him if he was around.

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  49. When we were displaced two years ago to an apartment after a big tree fell on our house we didn’t think we would be there very long so we didn’t get cable. Hubby put up an antenna and one of the only channels we could get was CMT. They played the Taylor Swift video “Mean” a lot. We still sing that to each other when someone is being mean. 🙂

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  51. Today was catch and release brackish water catfish. All they are good for is ripping your hand open so you have to take them off the hook wit h pliers.

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