Amendment One (or, Folks are Folks)

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Thursday May 03, 2012 · 6:55 AM PDT

2012/05/03 · 06:55

(cross-posted from my private blog, sent to my friends in North Carolina)

So, this is my return to blogging after a few years in the lurch. I think this is worth writing about.

As I was going through High School, some of my most profound experiences (in music and life) came with the wonderful people at The Cathedral of All Souls in Biltmore Village. I worked with most of the people who turned me into a serious musician there, but more than that, I found a home, a family outside my (loving, caring) nuclear family. I will freely admit that there are plenty of things about mainstream Christianity that frustrate, confuse, and discourage me. And yet, at All Souls, I found a group of people who were Christians with a strong sense of social justice and a strong commitment to praxis (a term that gained this context in the social justice movements in the Latin American Catholic Church, and can be briefly summed up as meaning a commitment to doing good works in the world, not just preaching them).

Nowhere was this more evident than the loving relationship between two folks at my church. They had come through the Vietnam War together as military doctors and had lived for the past fifty years in Asheville. I met one of the two near the end of his life, although I didn’t know it yet. I was a young kid, and so the words “carcinogen” and “hospice” didn’t mean a whole lot to me until one day, at choir practice, the person next to me simply wasn’t there, and I had to come to terms with the fact that the baritone sitting next to me was no longer there.

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Tuesday July 21, 2009 · 6:46 AM PDT

2009/07/21 · 06:46

This diary is cross-posted at my blog: DemocracySmores

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Monday July 13, 2009 · 9:36 AM PDT

2009/07/13 · 09:36

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Thursday September 04, 2008 · 9:05 AM PDT

2008/09/04 · 09:05

Hello to all. This is my first diary, so a brief introduction. I'm a 19 year old Music Composition student in the (moderately) deep South. I've been a lurker for a good long time, joined over the summer, and am here to stay through the campaign season and beyond.

Besides the morass of partisan bullshit Sarah Palin was gladly wading through last night, I heard that Obama is going to be taking part in the Thursday Night edition of The O'Reilly Factor. As if my blood wasn't boiling enough.

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