As many of you know, folk/country music (especially John Prine) has in many ways provided the sound track for a good portion of my life. This music runs not just through my mind, but also through my blood. The music of John Prine, Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline, George Jones and others can take to an old [...]
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A Spiritual Transplant
Posted in Bible, God, Jesus, christians, country music, faith, folk music, george jones, grace, iPods, jesus christ, job, john prine, johnny cash, music, patsy cline, quotes, religion, sin, songs, spirituality, tagged Abel, andrew peterson, christian music, christians, country music, David, folk music, george jones, God, grace, iPod, Jacob, Jesus, jesus christ, job, john prine, johnny cash, jonah, Moses, music, patsy cline, Promised Land, Rachel, Samson, Saul, sin, songs on May 31, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Bleeding Hearts
Posted in Church, Friends, appearance, children, christians, folk music, humanity, john prine, memories, relationships, religion, songs, tagged appearance, children, christians, Church, folk music, Friends, humanity, jesus christ, john prine, memories, relationships, religion, songs on May 22, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Growing up, there was a boy in my school - Brian Foley - who walked with a severe limp. I never knew for sure what his condition was, but I think he had a bad case of “Muscular Dystrophy”.
What I do know for sure is that the neighborhood kids treated him like garbage. They would push him [...]
Heaven on Earth Revisited
Posted in God, country music, death, faith, folk music, heaven, humor, humour, john prine, physical health, quotes, rectal surgery, religion, soul, spirituality, tagged country music, death, faith, folk music, God, heaven, humor, john prine, physical health, quotes, rectal surgery, soul, spirituality on May 13, 2008 | 5 Comments »
It was 1985. I was at the hospital, being wheeled into the operating room for an elective surgery that was more annoying than critical. Through the powers of my persuasion (a dangerous substance - to be used only in small doses) – I had convinced the staff to let me listen to some music on my headset before the [...]
Finding Myself
Posted in God, country music, faith, folk music, john prine, music, quotes, religion, songs, soul, spirituality, tagged faith, folk music, God, john prine, religion, songs, spirituality on May 7, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I’ve never been so lost in life as when I was trying to find myself. I was so busy trying to carve out a new identity for myself that I failed to recognize just who I am in the first place. I was lost.
There are a lot of lost souls out there. It seems it’s [...]
One Soldier’s Prayer
Posted in God, Iraq, Jesus, Vietnam, addiction, country music, drug abuse, drugs, folk music, jesus christ, john prine, memories, music, prayer, quotes, soldiers, suicide, war, tagged addiction, drug abuse, faith, folk music, God, Iraq, Jesus, john prine, memories, music, prayer, quotes, soldiers, suicide, Vietnam, war on May 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
{first published on March 29, 2007 in Necessary Therapy}
I went to a worship service this week and we said a prayer litany for the American soldiers serving in Iraq. During the prayer, we read off a list of all the soldiers from our area who had been killed in the war.
I don’t know the statistics (maybe [...]
As Good As Forgotten
Posted in bipolar disorder, bloggers, blogging, blogs, country music, drugs, folk music, guilt, john prine, memories, mental health, mental illness, mind, music, physical health, shame, songs, tagged alzheimer's, bipolar disorder, blogging, blogs, country music, drugs, folk music, guilt, john prine, memories, mental health, mental illness, mind, music, physical health, shame, songs on February 26, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Almost a year ago, I wrote a post entitled, “Losing Your Mind or Losing Your Memory?“ Would you rather lose track of the past yet in some way know that you’ve lost track of it. Or, would you rather be oblivious to it, to lose sight of the past altogether. It’s not a simple [...]
1000 Comments And Counting
Posted in Bible, Church, Freud, Friends, God, Iraq, Jesus, Lord, Muslims, Savior, anti-Christ, art, bipolar disorder, bloggers, blogging, blogs, books, censorship, cho seung-hui, christians, current affairs, current events, drugs, emerging church, emotions, encouragement, entertainment, faith, family, fear, folk music, gay, guidance, homosexuality, humor, humour, jesse jackson, jesus christ, john prine, johnny cash, kay redfield jamison, life, mary, mental health, mental illness, ministry, mothers, murder, music, obsessions, parody, physical health, pistol pete, poem, poetry, prison, psychiatrists, psychoanalysis, psychology, quotes, relationships, religion, repentance, salvation, satire, sex, sexuality, sin, soldiers, songs, spirituality, therapy, van gogh, violence, virgin, virginia tech, virginity, war, women, worship, writing, tagged art, Bible, bloggers, bloggings, blogs, books, censorship, cho seung-hui, christians, Church, country music, drugs, evil, faith, family, folk music, Freud, friendships, God, good, homosexuality, Iraq, jail, john prine, johnny cash, kay redfield jamison, mental illness, music, peace, pistol pete, poem, poetry, sex, soldiers, songs, van gogh, violence, war, writing on January 22, 2008 | 7 Comments »
I love receiving comments. Most of my best virtual friendships began with a comment on one of my posts. In many ways, comments are a better indicator of readership than hits/views. Aside from the occasional commenter simply trying to promote their own blog, those who comment demonstrate they’ve read, digested, and been moved to [...]
Wanted: 43-yr old Male PBMC Seeks Same
Posted in Friends, Jesus, baseball, bipolar disorder, buddhists, career, children, christians, country music, drugs, folk music, forgiveness, grace, healing, jesus christ, jews, john prine, marriage, men, mental health, music, psychiatrists, psychology, relationships, religion, self-esteem, sin, sports, support groups, tatoos, theology, therapy, women, yankees, tagged baseball, bipolar disorder, buddhists, career, children, Christianity, christians, Friends, grace, healing, jews, john prine, marriage, medication, men, psychiatrists, psychologists, self-esteem, sin, sports, support groups, tatoos, theology, therapists, women, yankees on January 16, 2008 | 10 Comments »
A 43-year old male professional with Bipolar Disorder, who is married with children seeks someone to share common experiences, ride ups and limit lows and generally discover together how to live fully as a crazy man in a crazy world. To apply, contact Pistol Pete at unquietmind@juno.com.
It’s been over a dozen years since [...]
Unlimited Calling
Posted in Bible, God, Jesus, abraham lincoln, adolph hitler, faith, george bush, grace, gratitude, greyhound, heaven, jesus christ, john calvin, john prine, judgement, love, mercy, mother teresa, predestination, salvation, son of god, truth, world, tagged abraham lincoln, adolph hitler, Bible, faith, george bush, God, grace, gratitude, heaven, Jesus, jesus christ, john calvin, john prine, judgement, love, mercy, mother teresa, predestination, salvation, son of god, truth, world on January 10, 2008 | 7 Comments »
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son. (John 3:17-18)
God desires [...]
John Prine at Carnegie Hall
Posted in anxiety, carnegie hall, classical music, conductors, country music, culture, folk music, iPods, illinois, itzhak perlman, john prine, kentucky, long island, music, new york city, organ donor, piano, rachmaninoff, violin, vladimir horowitz, walking, tagged anxiety, big apple, carnegie hall, classical music, conductors, country music, culture, folk music, illinois, iPod, itzhak perlman, john prine, kentucky, long island, music, new york city, organ donors, piano, rachmaninoff, violin, vladimir horowitz, walking on January 6, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Question: What do Sergei Rachmaninoff,
Vladimir Horowitz,
Itzhak Perlman,
and John Prine
have in common?
Answer: They have all played Carnegie Hall.
Yes, John Prine – hillbilly prophet, country and western poet laurete, an honest-to-goodness Grammy-award-winning genuine American bard, has now played on the premier stage in the entertainment capital of the world. How this second-generation Kentuckian, former U.S. Postal worker made it [...]
Events and Pseudo-Events
Posted in 746, Church, abortion, anarchy, animals, autism, babies, birth, bloggers, blogging, blogs, bobby kennedy, books, catholics, christians, communism, current affairs, current events, essays, evolution, faith, germany, goodwill, hitler, john prine, kentucky, media, memories, monks, philosophy, plays, poets, politics, rwanda, spirituality, supreme court, the beatles, thomas merton, thoreau, women, tagged abortion, amherst, anarchy, autism, blogging, blogs, bobby kennedy, books, bookstores, catholicism, college, communism, current events, essayists, evolution, genocide, germany, google, hitler, images, john prine, kentucky, Liberals, louisville, massachusetts, media, monks, newspapers, philosopy, plays, poets, radio, rwanda, supreme court, the beatles, thomas merton, thoreau, truth, TV, women on January 1, 2008 | 4 Comments »
It was the summer of 1988. I was in Amherst, Massachusetts waiting for the woman I mistakenly thought would be my soul-mate. Looking to escape the oppressive air of self-righteous liberalism, I ducked into a used bookstore and, right in the middle of a section on New Age philosophies was a book called -Seeds by Thomas Merton.
I knew Thomas [...]
The Way It Goes
Posted in country music, folk music, john prine, music, songs on June 16, 2007 | 3 Comments »
My wife took me out for a birthday breakfast Thursday and I suddenly became very nauseous. I’ve been in bed nearly the whole time since then. I apologize to my faithful readers that I haven’t had a daily post.
The time hasn’t been entirely wasted, though. For my birthday, I got an MP3 player and with [...]
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