Blue Truck, Red State: Sunday Drive: Handel, Ombra Mai Fu

Sunday, May 6, 2018

Sunday Drive: Handel, Ombra Mai Fu

Many thanks to truckbuddy Tim for today's lovely selection from Xerxes by his favorite ~~tenor~~ countertenor, Andreas Scholl:

5 comments:

Tim said...: Tenor/Countertenor....mehh...it still sounds sublime. And if you don’t like it I’ll fight you! ;)); May 6, 2018 at 9:42 AM
Russ Manley said...: Alas, my musical ignorance is revealed, and I stand corrected.; May 6, 2018 at 11:52 AM
Tim said...: Ha, ha, what’s an octave or two between friends? Mr Scholl (I wonder if does those shoes?) does in fact sing as a tenor sometimes, so you’re not wrong. :); May 6, 2018 at 3:11 PM
Davis said...: Best Countertenor Ever; May 7, 2018 at 3:55 PM
Tim said...: Davis, you have impeccable taste in music, just like your men!; May 9, 2018 at 2:58 AM

Prayer for Peace

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is discord, harmony; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. Grant that I may seek not so much to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.

Churches say that the expression of love in a heterosexual monogamous relationship includes the physical, the touching, embracing, kissing, the genital act - the totality of our love makes each of us grow to become increasingly godlike and compassionate. If this is so for the heterosexual, what earthly reason have we to say that it is not the case with the homosexual?

It is a perversion if you say to me that a person chooses to be homosexual. You must be crazy to choose a way of life that exposes you to a kind of hatred. It's like saying you choose to be black in a race-infected society.

If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn't worship that God.

--Archbishop Desmond Tutu