Be the difference.

CASA
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Ok. Most of you who read this blog are like minded enough to have one very big thing in common with the funky presbyterian. We are completely unsatisfied with the way the world functions (malfuntions!) and think things could be a whole lot better. Here is at least one way I'm sure most of you could be involved and make your community a better place for the people who need it the most. Be a Court Appointed Special Advocate for a child who has been abused, or neglected. I am thinking of a few of you specifically! If you think I mean you, you are probably right. Let's not just shake our heads and "tsk, tsk". Let's get something done. I plan to become a CASA just as soon as the formal leadership at Grace Central is in place. To misquote Bruce Cockburn "Let's kick the darkness 'till it bleeds daylight". Click the link above. Make your life an instrument of redemption in the life of a child.

Mr. Mom for the weekend

Charity took Sam and went to Michigan to visit her grandmother this week, leaving Jack and I at home to do the "Men's Weekend" thing which involves the watching of the cartoons, the playing of the star wars, the eating of the donuts, that kind of business. Anyway, I sent Jack upstairs to get dressed this morning and he emerges wearing a pair of baseball pants (you know the kind that come down just past the knee) and a superman pajama shirt. He was weilding lightsabers. (Plural). Not really what I had in mind, but I guess it'll do.

What's Rockin' the Reverend?

gold
Originally uploaded by Greg Blosser.

This week it's the entire Ryan Adams catalog. Heartbreaker, Demolition, Gold, Rock n Roll, Love is Hell Volumes 1 and 2, and soon there will be a new album out entitled Cold Roses. I know lot's of people don't like this guy. He's arrogant and self destructive. He's a loud mouth. I know all of this. But I also know he can write the heck out of a song. If you are thinking about checking him out, it is generally agreed upon that his best album is heartbreaker, though I actually think gold is far superior. (Rock and Roll is the least necessary album). Hurry up and listen to him now so when he self-destructs you can say you were a fan BEFORE he went "Kurt Cobain" on us.