CALL+RESPONSE in Boise!

Call+Response is coming to Boise! I would like to brag that it is because of me, but that wouldn't be true. Stephie Braun and I talked to both the Flicks and the Egyptian Theatre and the contacts we made there were very interested in bringing it here, then the next thing i knew I saw the poster in the window of the Egyptian Theatre! Here is the info:

CALL+RESPONSE
Friday, Dec 12-Dec 17, 2008 Film begins at 6:00 pm..running time is 89 min. PG-13
Ticket prices are $8.00 Adults & $6.00 seniors/students

An undercover investigation of slavery in the 21st century. The first feature Rockumentary to expose the world's 27 million most terrifying secrets: there are more slaves today than ever before in human history. Music is part of the movement against human slavery. Dr. Cornel West connects the music of the American slave fields to the popular music we listen to today, and offers this connection as a rallying cru for the modern abolitionist movement currently brewing. Please come and enjoy great music as well as help to be apart of this powerful movement! View the callandresponse.com website for more information on this program and field projects.

I have only heard good reviews about this movie and am so glad that the issue of human trafficking is becoming more and more well known.

how anne shirley saved my soul

(well, you know, not literally my soul)

my co-worker and i have been listening to "anne of green gables" at work this week and i have come to the realization that i haven't let myself imagine enough in these past few months. i don't know if this is because i became afraid that the beauty of what i can imagine will be shattered and then i will be left with only ruins of an invisible realm, or if it is because i just haven't hung out with kids enough lately. probably a little of both.

as a remedy i went and wandered around katherine albertson's park at sunset last night.
a few stubborn golden leaves clung desperately to the tops of the trees as the grass shone emerald in the light of the sinking sun. a few ducks flew overhead, the air whistling through their wings and the sun shining silver on their chests. i could almost imagine that the breeze that came up and made the trees whisper and sigh was just for me. i think beauty must be the remedy for almost everything.

do you think God chuckles...

I think he does. I think he was chuckling this morning as i read through my sunday school lesson i was supposed to teach on...wait for it...provision.



yes, ok God, i get it. you will provide. you always have.



i also think he chuckles when people see naked mole rats for the first time... but that's a whole different story.

today is not on my list of good days a.k.a. i'm just venting

blaaahhhhh what a horrible day. and i don't even have anyone to vent to.

so this was really just a ton of venting, i got over it.

baz luhrmann is a genious

i just got back from watching "Australia." it was incredible. i haven't felt that deeply while watching a movie for so long. it makes the last few movies i have watched look like cheap commercials, you know the ones where they don't even dub the voices in and the person behind the camera is the one narrating...ok so maybe they haven't been that bad, but pretty close. There are very few movies that i get out of where i want to go back and watch it again. i would love to watch it another time just to take in the beauty of Australia, and then another time just to listen to the score. for me it was one of those amazing movies where the music blends so well you don't consciously notice it until it hits a crescendo and then you know that it has been beautiful and has fit perfectly with the scene. I love the "drover's ballad" at the end also. I always sit in the theater till the end of the credits, but rarely is it that rewarding. i enjoyed that in grand luhrmann style everything was big, and beautiful and breathtaking. his movies are so much about the connecting of people, and the pain, joy, and heartache that having a connection brings.

Everyone has a story, how will people tell yours?

I don't mind the weather
I've got scarves and caps and sweaters
I've got long johns under slacks for blustery days.
-death cab for cutie

humdeehum

so i am here at work waiting yet again for the server to get fixed.

i've been thinking lately that i should collect quotes that i hear throughout the day and post them here for future enjoyment.
my favorite one from last month was:

"you know if narwhals are real, and men can fly, then dracula could live in pennsylvania."
-Charlie

this is legit

Here are a couple photos of me with friends at our 80's party. I don't realize that I'm so short in my day to day life, except when I'm grocery shopping and can't reach the top shelf. (Albertson's is horrible for that.) That's really why i keep my friends around, to reach everything up high.

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Singing off key

i started singing again. not just humming, or whistling, or singing along with the songs i know, but making up silly songs like my family always does.

something inside me fell into place yesterday. i'm still not sure what it was, but i feel like i've come back from a journey. i feel like i'm awake again. i feel like the goat in muppets treasure island after the cabin fever song:

- Hey-ey-ey, Polly.
- What?

- What was that song that just happened?
- What are you talkin' about?

You know.
Cabin Fever

- That.

that bit of dialog pretty much defines this feeling.