Arguing

"Never argue with an idiot.
He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience."

~ Mark Twain

Bob Dylan's view of Gospel music

quoted from:
Bob Dylan Has a Lot on His Mind
In a rare interview, the Nobel Prize winner discusses mortality, drawing inspiration from the past, and his new album, “Rough and Rowdy Ways.”
By Douglas Brinkley  June 12, 2020
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/arts/music/bob-dylan-rough-and-rowdy-ways.html

Why didn’t more people pay attention to Little Richard’s gospel music?
Probably because gospel music is the music of good news and in these days there just isn’t any. Good news in today’s world is like a fugitive, treated like a hoodlum and put on the run. Castigated. All we see is good-for-nothing news. And we have to thank the media industry for that. It stirs people up. Gossip and dirty laundry. Dark news that depresses and horrifies you.
On the other hand, gospel news is exemplary. It can give you courage. You can pace your life accordingly, or try to, anyway. And you can do it with honor and principles. There are theories of truth in gospel but to most people it’s unimportant. Their lives are lived out too fast. Too many bad influences. Sex and politics and murder is the way to go if you want to get people’s attention. It excites us, that’s our problem.
Little Richard was a great gospel singer. But I think he was looked at as an outsider or an interloper in the gospel world. They didn’t accept him there. And of course the rock ’n’ roll world wanted to keep him singing “Good Golly, Miss Molly.” So his gospel music wasn’t accepted in either world. I think the same thing happened to Sister Rosetta Tharpe. I can’t imagine either of them being bothered too much about it. Both are what we used to call people of high character. Genuine, plenty talented and who knew themselves, weren’t swayed by anything from the outside. Little Richard, I know was like that.

Tiger's Work Ethic

"People don't understand that when I grew up, I was never the most talented. I was never the biggest. I was never the fastest. I certainly was never the strongest. The only thing I had was my work ethic, and that's been what has gotten me this far."

~ Tiger Woods

Weeping creates a river . . .

"Tears are a river that take you somewhere. Weeping creates a river around the little boat carrying your soul-life. Tears can lift that little boat off rocks, off dry ground, carrying it downriver to someplace new, someplace better."

~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés. Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype. New York: Ballantine Books, 1992, 374.

Churchill quote

Winston Churchill reportedly said: "If you are not a liberal when you are young, you don't have a heart; and if you are not conservative when you are old, you don't have a brain."

judged "by the content of their character" - Martin Luther King, Jr.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

mutual justice, mutual love, mutual respect, mutual trust, mutual peace, and mutual prosperity

May God's grace and truth help bring
mutual justice,
mutual love,
mutual respect,
mutual trust,
mutual peace, and
mutual prosperity
to all people.

~ Truthful Grace