Month: April 2015
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Whispering Hope
This song was taken quickly into the church, though it isn’t deep enough theologically to fit into the 100 hymns everyone should know. There really isn’t anything deeply theological anywhere. But it has a nice melody, even if a little expansive. Need a lot of support, which isn’t that easy to do while playing and singing.…
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A Blast of the Past #13 — Go West, Young Man!
These Blast of the Past post hit a geographic divide — the move from New York State to Missouri. And there are no pictures of that. What I recall is Betsy’s folks coming to New York for the birth of Carly, and then her father coming two months later to help with the move. We…
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#9: His Loving-Kindness
(Part of a series singing through the hymnbook I grew up with: Great Hymns of the Faith) 1 Awake, my soul, to joyful lays, And sing thy great Redeemer’s praise; He justly claims a song from me – His loving-kindness, O how free! Loving-kindness, loving-kindness, His loving-kindness, O how free! 2 He saw me ruined…
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A Blast of the Past #12 — A Baby is Born
As I look at the pictures from my daughter’s first two months, the short time that she lived in the Savona House before we moved to Missouri, I am amused by what is in the pictures, and what isn’t. I am amused by all the stuff, and clutter, the pictures show in the house. We…
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When Johnny Comes Marching Home
When Nathan heard this one he said “presumably this is where ‘The Ants Went Marching’ came from.” Which shows the life of some of these tunes. Made popular in one place, they are used for another, until many don’t know the real source. The accompaniment in the book shows how Celtic the tune is. I…
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Going to the Zoo
The Kansas City Zoo got residents of a couple local counties to agree to a zoological improvement zone tax. In other words, we’d pay taxes to support the zoo — a non-profit corporation. In exchange for our tax dollars, residents of those counties would be allowed to visit the zoo for free on select days.…
At The Rainbow 