At church this morning, we did a chanting meditation to Pachelbel’s Canon.  All I could think about was this rant from Rob Paravonian:

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What a wonderful evening I had last night!  Out to dinner with friends then a Sweet Honey in the Rock concert at the Attucks Theater in Norfolk, Virginia.  I was swept away by their beautiful acapella singing.  Just amazing music, but what struck me the most was how much fun they were having.  At one [...]

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And I’m not going to church.  Instead, I’m up early watching the sun rise.  As I walked with the dogs earlier, we stood a moment and looked at the almost full moon in the west, clear and bright in the sky.  I feel like I sometimes carry “church” with me, a sense of awe and [...]

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I hadn’t been to church for several weeks…busy traveling and working. But, I went yesterday, mostly to hear The Delvers. They are a local group that plays folks, jazz and western swing. One of the band members belongs to my church and I arranged for them to play. As we were [...]

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I spent yesterday digitizing albums and collecting the music I had already done from the three laptops I’ve got.  At one point, I had all four of my macs, including my 12-inch iBook, running.  I used Final Vinyl to divide them into tracks and today I’ll import them into iTunes and add the information.
I’m also [...]

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We got back from the school board meeting sometime after 11 PM then stayed up until 2 or so.  Hence, just getting around to writing at 9:20 this morning.  My defense begins at 3 PM and I have a couple errands to run before then.
Tina Turner has figured out how to get out of the [...]

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After almost exactly a year of work, I turned in my dissertation proposal to my committee yesterday.  My advisor has already returned it with some suggested changes, but she assures me that it is not because I am a slacker.  It is 125 pages after all.
This is all very exciting but also a little overwhelming [...]

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