"theological worldview"

at least, this is how I felt today:

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beautiful post labor day songs

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Originally uploaded by thoseawake.

i hope to be again enjoying the most beautiful music i have ever heard live.
it looks like it might turn out to be a set of post Labor day songs. that's because Sigur Ros will be in Atlanta on Tuesday Sept. 6th (labor day is the 5th), and if that remains to be the closest show to me, then that's the one I will strive (with every fiber) to be at.
it's not clear if "amina" will be supporting Sigur Ros on the September dates ... but i hope so. they were great last time. i've been listening to "Rachel's" and thinking about the sweetness of a few stringed instruments bellowing ...

while I'm on the subject, go to
http://www.sigur-ros.co.uk/news/index.html#01
and check out the "new song for h.c. andersen". something they recorded for a ballet. it's really great.

-s.o

conditional life

I've heard a lot about "unconditional" love ... and, therefore, "conditional" love as well. It's all been church thoughts, you know. It's kinda fun to just think about that word - conditional/condition.
Webster says condition is: something essential to the appearance or occurrence of something else .

and, I like Thoreau's musing,
"surely joy is the condition of life." and, I agree. joy is essential to life. and, I don't think Thoreau is "thinking positive" or just throwing this statement to the wind. I think he means to say that for real, true, authentic LIFE - JOY is essential. can you hear that? not as merely inspirational but just truly essential.

i hope to live more and more.

-s.o