Two new artists I’ve come to appreciate both have roots in Israel: Yael Naim (New Soul, featured in the MacBook Air commercial) and Yamit Mamo (Love Our Time Today, Death at a Funeral). Both have an acoustic/folk/pop sound. Yael is Fiest-ish and Yamit is more Norah Jones-y. Both warrant a definite listen.
“What need has God of categories? Why sort and catalog a collection when you know and can describe every individual item? What meaning do your base labels have for a higher mind? You have created categories for your own use, fallen in love with sorting them, and made a god of the whole affair. This is an idolatry of the highest order. It is a blasphemy so bold as to cause angels to tremble. ‘The mind of The Almighty,’ you say, ‘is like unto my own mind.’”
“God is on intimate terms with the simple matter of earth, yet you dare label people instead of trying to know them. Your precious divisions of nationality, of Christian and non-Christian, saved and damned, good and evil, slave and free. These convenient memory aids might have served you well when you were biting spiritual ankles and wrestling with your primers. Will you not set them aside even now?”
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Another thought from today…
Who knew 3pm on Wednesdays was a peak time at Timmy’s? I’m guessing I didn’t win anything (again) but we’ll see after the walk. (Only two of five vehicles in my geographical prize area have been won to date … there’s still hope.)
Happy to report that my library card has been found. It only took an hour of hunting around to find it. Now I’m off to try and prevent the extinction of libraries.
I have realised that things are looking exactly like a prairie sky — wide open with seemingly infinite boundaries. That can be a little overwhelming at times.
