Posting from work (bad me)...long day, long week...so I'm adapting M's earlier suggestion and put my iPod on random. Here are quotes from each of the first 5 songs with a little rumination:
1) It's time to trust my instincts; Close my eyes: and leap! (defying gravity, wicked soundtrack)
**Not sure I'll ever get that far...a little scary to me. I'm not quite sure why it's so scary, because the few times I have trusted my gut, it has worked out splendidly. I just have this huge fear of choosing the *wrong* thing--probably b/c I suck at admitting I'm unhappy with my choice. Though The Road Not Taken is my favorite poem, I stand at that juncture in the woods for a long long time, and see the good and bad in every choice, then panic.
2) First it was question, then it was a mission; How to be American, how to be a Christian (i had no right, dar williams)
**To an extent, something I've struggled with for 10 years. Particularly the last 5 or 6...my own life and comfort and ease up against my responsibility to the poor and oppressed. How do I continue to find a way to live and work in solidarity with those who have less than I do materially, yet teach me so much? I love this song so much though...I had the good fortune to hear Fr. Dan Berrigan speak earlier this year at HC. This song is a powerful testament to the man.
3) If you're not with us, we have to hate you; but that's ok because hatred makes us strong! (we are the true americans, christine lavin)
**I love this song, and this line. As hopeless as I can feel about the state of our country and our world these days, this song makes it all hilariously funny. And the really interesting part--the song is from like 1991-1992! It still applies.
4) Yesterday's girl, please look around you, you are right where you belong! (yesterday's girl, nerissa & katryna nields)
**This song has recently become an absolute favorite. For the first time in a long time, I feel like this line is so true for me. This is the right job, living situation, location for me at this point in my life. It feels so rich--to be surrounded by friends, able to go home for a weekend or even a day if I wanted, to have a job where I laugh on a daily basis and find the work interesting...I am a lucky girl, and the girl that I was for 3 years in LA has faded away, yet I know that she's a part of this too--she is what makes this all so much better.
5) She tries to coax us out; She cups her hands and shouts, "Oh but think of the stories you will tell!" (mercy house, the nields)
**I don't think I need to even comment on that one. It's simply perfect.
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These are great answers! And now it's my turn to have a dream about a WIUITG cult member ... last night I had a dream that I went to get gas at the local quick stop ... I was having trouble when you, K, appeared to help me ... in a nun's habit. I guess the whole Irish Catholic thing stuck with me (that's my background, too, so it was totally logical than an Irish Catholic friend would show up in a habit and help me get a gas pump to work ...) Oh my ...
LOL! That's hilarious, M :) I've never been in a nun's habit, but as long as I'm a nice nun, like my 3rd grade teacher, then I guess it's OK.
J, so glad you got to see the girls last night. Sister Holler is going to be amazing, indeed. The new songs are a lot of fun.
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