Category: Music
Merry Christmas 2016!
Dueling time-lapse videos – Christmas Eve taffy pull vs. Christmas morning excitement: Oh Little Town of Bethlehem in matching pajamas: In the Bleak Midwinter, also in matching pajamas:
It Is Well With My Soul
This is a favorite Christian hymn, lyrics written by Horatio Spafford in the 1870s after his 2-yr-old son died in the Great Chicago Fire, his finances fell apart, and his four daughters drowned in a shipwreck. It has been a source of comfort for me. Chris Rice has a great version in his Hymns Project.…
When The Ship Comes In
Congratulations to Bob Dylan who was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature today. Here’s one of my favorites, written when he was 22.
Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want
A friend of mine sketched a drawing of me based on my current Facebook profile. I told him it was indescribably beautiful and requested the original by snail mail. He proposed an Art Swap: his sketch in exchange for an MP3 of me singing his favorite song by The Smiths, Please Please Please Let Me Get…