devastation & reform

tear it down just to build it back up

Sittin' on top of the world

Roanoke, VA - I love this city

       

Church at the Barn


@johnmarkmc's music has infiltrated the Triad Cowboy Church. This young lady is singing the only song The John Mark has ever written: "How He Loves."  I'm just kidding, it's a beautiful song and I'm glad the church has embraced it. I give her +3 points for sticking with the original sloppy wet lyrics.

I had the chance to play for Leslie again and she sang an old Alison Krauss song, "In the Palm of Your Hand" (Did you know they played this on Letterman in '95?) and a not so cowboy-ish Kathryn Scott song, "At the Foot of the Cross."

This type of setting stresses me out, but also stretches me. Just a few days to learn the music. No sound check. There are no spare channels, you have to unplug someone else's junk to plug in. There are no monitors (to speak of), & only a vague idea of when you play. But the people, oh man, the people are what makes playing there so much fun.

Everyone Has An Agenda


I stay as far away from politics on this blog as possible, and that's because I d.e.s.p.i.s.e. them. "Everyone has an agenda," is what my co-worker always says, and in politics, that's the truth. The people that irk me most with their agenda are the Jesus sprinklers. You've seen them before — take just enough of the Gospel and just enough Jesus and sprinkle it onto your point-of-view for the advancement of your kingdom.

Dr. Russell Moore says it more eloquently, "Too often, and for too long, American 'Christianity' has been a political agenda in search of a gospel useful enough to accommodate it."

Quit using Jesus as a political tool.
.

.

(Read Dr Moore's article, God, the Gospel & Glenn Beck)


(via)

Filed under  //   ponderings  

Afraid of the Quiet

.

Separation anxiety is assuaged by constant connection. Young people announce every detail of their lives on services like Twitter not to show off, but to avoid the closed door at bedtime, the empty room, the screaming vacuum of an isolated mind

 


Jaron Lanier from You Are Not A Gadget

.

 
Do you agree?


Filed under  //   ponderings   quote  

If I had one hour to live...

For all the back-to-schoolers

via @KennedyPittman

Filed under  //   humor  

The Fatal Thing...

The fatal thing is to shrink, to be interested in less, sympathetic to less, desiccating to the point where life itself loses its flavor, and one’s passion for human understanding changes to weariness and distaste

Norman Mailer

.

..

Filed under  //   ponderings   quote  

Klingelhoefer

I'm just a car-nut with a camera, just like you.

— Sean Klingelhoefer
.
.
.
.
.
.

   

 

*images are property of Sean Klingelhoefer / SuperStreetOnline.com

Filed under  //   car stuff   photography  

Bessie

There is nothing like a drive through the country to make everything alright. Also, the weather this week has been fanfreakintastic. 

Words in action

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

 

— Henry David Thoreau


.

Filed under  //   ponderings   quote  

Martin Sexton

I've probably posted this before. But it's awesome. So here it is again. Martin Sexton doing what he does; rockin' your face off.

 

Martin is coming to the Visualite in Charlotte, NC on October 16th if anyone wants to take a field trip with us.

Filed under  //   guitar   music  

Gas Grill Hair Removal

I always duck below the front of the grill when lighting the grill because of a healthy respect for flames/fire/explosions/etc and tonight my face is still intact because of it. My hairy wrist didn't fair so well when the gas finally ignited and the huge flame shot out of the grill.

Just be thankful you can't smell over the internet yet.
   

Filed under  //   humor  

Week in Review

This little baby celebrated his 29th bday (and looks more like the bearded fellow everyday), these kids were all dedicated in '82 (and most of us are still friends), upgraded the rounds in our daily carry's, unexpectedly got to buy new tires for my box (these Sumitomo's look so manly & trucklike), & didn't do a dang thing Friday and Saturday except read my new book sitting on a sandy shore at the lake.

             

Filed under  //   week in review  

Birthday!

My little cousin, the recently married Mrs. Schlossberg, is taking cake decoration classes. She is building on her already amazing cooking skills. She made this cake for my birthday & it was stinkin delicious.

Senna


If you can't meet your hero while they are still here with us, experiencing something that made up so much of their past would have to be incredible.

Lewis eventually DID get to drive Ayrton's car:


(via fatlace.com)

Filed under  //   car stuff  

Current Status:


(via jdmwong)

Filed under  //   current status  

Jon Foreman — pt II

.
.

We all need each other. We all need second chances. We all need to learn from the replay. The umps, the cops, and me.

Filed under  //   ponderings   quote  

Pedalboard Shuffle

Posted to Twitter by @Droff:


Pedalboard surgery...time for a reshuffle. http://tweetphoto.com/39560179

 

http://twitter.com/Droff/status/21391127342

(Sent via Seesmic http://www.seesmic.com)

Filed under  //   guitar   music   Nigel Hendroff  

Jon Foreman


Protecting & Serving like a champ.

Filed under  //   guitar   music   ponderings  

The perfect Saturday afternoon...

Filed under  //   books  

Mr & Mrs Dale Chandler


I am super excited to see two people I love like family get hitched (07/31/2010). Photos from the reception are up on flickr.


(and will forever serve as a reminder of how not to shoot low light photos)
 

(Always check your ISO: ISO3200!?! what the crap?))

Filed under  //   photography