Happy New Year!

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.
— Bill Vaughan

Bono - God's Gonna Cut You Down - Johnny Cash

For Today, A Window is Exactly What I Need

Window In The Skies

The shackles are undone
The bullets quit the gun
The heat that’s in the sun
Will keep us when there’s none

The rule has been disproved
The stone it has been moved
The grave is now a groove
All debts are removed

Oh can’t you see what love has done?
Oh can’t you see what love has done?
Oh can’t you see what love has done?
What it’s done to me?

Love makes strange enemies
Makes love where love may please
The soul and its striptease
Hate brought to its knees

The sky over our head
We can reach it from our bed
You let me in your heart
And out of my head, head…

Oh can’t you see what love has done?
Oh can’t you see what love has done?
Oh can’t you see what love has done?
What it’s done to me?

Oh, oh, oh, oh…
Oh, oh, oh, oh…

Please don’t ever let me out of you
I’ve got no shame,
oh no, oh no

Oh can’t you see what love has done?
Oh can’t you see?
Oh can’t you see what love has done?
What it’s doing to me?

I know I hurt you and I made you cry
Did everything but murder you and I
But love left a window in the skies
And to love I rhapsodize

To every broken heart
For every heart that cries
Love left a window in the skies
And to love I rhapsodize

meghan's translation of a rob bell quote:

"The day after Thanksgiving in America, is called Black Friday. Roughly two weeks ago the numbers came in -- they believe Americans spent, on gifts for Christmas, roughly 9 billion dollars.

So we spent, the day after Thanksgiving two weeks ago, a number that would provide water and sanitation for the WHOLE world. "


I am SO glad that we are doing buy nothing christmas.. it doesn't necessarily add to the water and sanitation thing at all but it helps with my own mental sanity.

Songs For Christmas

It's not often that the Sheffs agree on anything -- let alone music -- but Sufjan Stevens is one of a very small club of musicians: the Duhks, the Decemberists and the aforementioned Sufjan. We first heard him of NPR singing about the Lord God Bird (a 1.5 m tall woodpecker) thought to be extinct in the Arkansas backwater. Google this song -- very interesting.

In keeping with the season, I suggest you listen to some of Sufjan Steven's Songs for Christmas.

It makes everything right in the Christmas crazed world.

And helps you avoid the mall.

This man knows of what he sings.....

I Need to Remember this Quote....

maybe you do too....

We are the people we've been waiting for.
- Jim Wallis,
Sojourner Magazine

Interview with Bill McKibben ($100.00 Holiday)

One of the ironies of this business is listening to people say, Oh but if you changed Christmas it would wreck the economy. The idea that our economic success should depend on the corrupted celebration of the birth of someone who told us to give everything we had should lead us to question the rationality of a hyper-consumer economy.
--Bill McKibben

Meghan At Night