Blue Truck, Red State: Sunday Drive: Louis Armstrong, When the Saints Go Marching In

Sunday, October 31, 2021

Sunday Drive: Louis Armstrong, When the Saints Go Marching In

Just a little contemplative tune to help my truckbuddies get in the proper mood to celebrate the Feast of All Hallows, which is tomorrow. The great Satchmo and his band perform on the the Ed Sullivan Show, 1959:

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2 comments:

Davis said...: Louis - it doesn't get any more authentic does it?!; October 31, 2021 at 4:12 PM
Russ Manley said...: Satchmo is the Real Thing, for sure.; October 31, 2021 at 10:54 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