Out Of The Sky
Well, at last a note since 3/2/07 — the author has been catatonic in the wash of culture, no doubt overwhelmed by the loss of Anna Nicole and angst over Britney. But for a tonic, I took a look at the website linked with this post. It's authored by David Clark, a radio commentator, author, story-teller, folk singer, and observer who sometimes travels the country and tells about it. Some of his writings appear as reporting of daily mundaneities, almost as frequent and seemingly insignificant as journals of personal encounters; then, after a spell, he'll put together many of his experiences to produce a series of essays with so much common sense that they upend our daily headlong rush. All of this is related from the view of a world-awareness based solidly in the soils of Middle Georgia, written with hands that do much of the work about which he writes. If you like what you read, he offers CDs and books, as well.
Sunday, March 18, 2007
Friday, March 2, 2007
YouTube - Chinese Ballet Circus pas de deux troupe du Guangdong
If dance can bring tears to the eyes, this can.
YouTube - Chinese Ballet Circus pas de deux troupe du Guangdong
"David, wearing a priestly linen outergarment, dances before the Lord with all his might, while he and the entire house of Israel bring up the ark of the Lord with shouting and the voice of a trumpet." (2 Samuel 6:14-15)
He did not stumble. If America stumbles, if Christendom falls in worldly paths, it will be from a softness that does not seek excellence. To tolerate the average and not advance the best will put us on our knees in the arts first — the field we ignore — and in civilizational morality, finally in industry, engineering, science, medicine. To ignore a blessing is to reject it. To fail to seek is to lack confidence (faith) in success. It is legitimate to reject a "praying for dollars" doctrine; it is less legitimate not to work in all ways as though for God. And in the arts, we communicate our exultation as worship to Him and our delight to one another. If indeed these depicted dancers are non-believers, the culturally Christian West must step up or ask to whom it will yield the stage as it bows out: the Muslim or the Han? "Is there anybody out there?" (Pink Floyd, The Wall)
YouTube - Chinese Ballet Circus pas de deux troupe du Guangdong
"David, wearing a priestly linen outergarment, dances before the Lord with all his might, while he and the entire house of Israel bring up the ark of the Lord with shouting and the voice of a trumpet." (2 Samuel 6:14-15)
He did not stumble. If America stumbles, if Christendom falls in worldly paths, it will be from a softness that does not seek excellence. To tolerate the average and not advance the best will put us on our knees in the arts first — the field we ignore — and in civilizational morality, finally in industry, engineering, science, medicine. To ignore a blessing is to reject it. To fail to seek is to lack confidence (faith) in success. It is legitimate to reject a "praying for dollars" doctrine; it is less legitimate not to work in all ways as though for God. And in the arts, we communicate our exultation as worship to Him and our delight to one another. If indeed these depicted dancers are non-believers, the culturally Christian West must step up or ask to whom it will yield the stage as it bows out: the Muslim or the Han? "Is there anybody out there?" (Pink Floyd, The Wall)
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