Blue Truck, Red State: Sunday Drive: Puccini, Un Bel Di, Latonia Moore

Sunday, July 19, 2020

Sunday Drive: Puccini, Un Bel Di, Latonia Moore

Texas native Latonia Moore at Verizon Hall in Philadelphia in 2010 with a magnificent rendition of the beloved aria. If you aren't woke now, you will be when Latonia gets done with you. I tell you what.

2 comments:

Frank said...: Just reading the prayer of St. Francis (to the right of the video) while listening...very difficult aspirations, but something we should all be praying during these disturbing days.; July 19, 2020 at 6:28 PM
Russ Manley said...: Yes indeed.; July 21, 2020 at 1:23 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