Blue Truck, Red State: Sunday Drive: The Youngbloods, Get Together

Sunday, August 18, 2019

Sunday Drive: The Youngbloods, Get Together

I'm sure everyone who was alive and young in August of 1969 remembers fondly this haunting tune, which carries a message for the present time, too.

3 comments:

JMac said...: That bought back some great memories Thanks!!; August 19, 2019 at 3:12 AM
Frank said...: What ever happened to the Summer of Love, the be-ins, the hippies, the freaks, the pot heads? did 90% of them grow up to be Trump supporters?; August 19, 2019 at 6:33 AM
Russ Manley said...: JMac - You're welcome.

Frank - Wouldn't it be funny if that were true?; August 19, 2019 at 7:57 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