January 4, 2025

2025.01.04
Last month's "new to me music". "Do You Realize??" was a good recommendation by Lynette... stuff like

Do you realize / That everyone you know someday will die? / And instead of saying all of your goodbyes / Let them know you realize that life goes fast / It's hard to make the good things last" is right up my alley


4 star:
* Do You Realize?? (The Flaming Lips)
* This Is War (Gawne, Atlus & Tech N9ne)
* All Apologies (Sinéad O'Connor)

3 star:
* Wild World (Epic Trailer Version) (Alala)
* The Star Wars Cantina (Mark Jonathan Davis)
* Battle of Who Could Care Less (Ben Folds Five)
* Mass Destruction (Single Version) (Faithless)
* Otonoke (Opening Theme to DAN DA DAN) (Creepy Nuts)
* 'Twas the Night After Christmas (John Jay Martyn)
* Late Night Games (Jack Baker)
* Need a Favor (Jelly Roll)
* Nowhere to Run (The Delegators)
* Dónde Está Santa Claus (2013 Remastered Version) (Augie Rios)
* Baby, It's Cold Outside (from Love Hard) (Love Hard)
* Blue Bayou (Linda Ronstadt)
* Soulful Christmas (James Brown)
* Silver Bells (Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings)

It is this variety, this diversity of people and views which gives our church its strength.

And over the course of many years in the service of our mother, the church, let me tell you,

there was one sin which I have come to fear above all others.

Certainty.

Certainty is the great enemy of unity.

Certainty is the deadly enemy of tolerance.

Even Christ was not certain at the end.
People so crave certainty that all kinds of wildly incompatible faiths have emerged. The certainty I see is this: that I will muddle through whatever comes. This lets me be much more tolerant.