Blue Truck, Red State: Sunday Drive: Chad & Jeremy, A Summer Song

Sunday, August 4, 2019

Sunday Drive: Chad & Jeremy, A Summer Song

Chad & Jeremy take us back to the sunny, carefree days of the British Invasion with this lilting dream of a song:

Goodness gracious, how did we all get to be so old?

2 comments:

Frank said...: I used to have a collection of "summer songs" - In the Summertime, Mungo Jerry; Summer in the City, Lovin' Spoonful; Summertime, Summertime, the Jamies; Lazy, Hazy Crazy Days of Summer, Nat K Cole; Summer, War; and so many more: Under the Boardwalk, all the Beach Boys....you know.

Yeah, Russ, How DID we get to be so old? Answer: We survived.

I saw David Crosby on late night talk...now HE looks OLD.

I can't believe I was actually at WOODSTOCK 50 years ago!!!! So was David Crosby CSN&Y; August 5, 2019 at 5:08 PM
Russ Manley said...: Funny how 50 years looked so very long at the starting end, but from this end looking back, it seems so much shorter. Like when we were kids, thinking oh boy, a whole summer of no school ahead - and yet, summer never lasted quite as long as we wanted it to.

I guess we can be grateful to have survived to these sunset years, especially when we think of those who did not.

Have to say, though, I don't like this scary, unsettled, obnoxious century one bit. For all its faults and flaws, the second half of the 20th century was a good time to be alive, speaking strictly of everyday middle-class life in these United States, and the comforts and conveniences we took for granted. Hope that continues, but I have my doubts nowadays.; August 6, 2019 at 11:00 PM

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