I just got off the phone with Kemper Crabb. Yeah, he asked me to sing on his album. Couldn't make our schedules work. Bummer.
Yes! I was just able to say that. Wow, someone asked me to sing on their album -- and this someone has actually heard me sing before -- in a studio! I guess it's true what all those people say that read his column (The Christian & Art): the guy is crazy! Well, I can mark that life goal off my list:
X-Be asked to sing on someone's album.
There, it's checked off. What else is on my "bucket list?"
Hmmm.
-I'd really like to pray for someone to be healed and see blind eyes opened; or an amputated limb grow; or a paralyzed person walk.
-I'd love to swim with dolphins.
-I'd like to buy a motorcycle and build some jumps out here on the HM Ranch.
-I'd like to publish a novel.
-I'd like to publish another magazine (secret idea, under wraps for 11 years now).
-I'd like to see my birthplace (Japan) again.
I can think of a few other things...
Don't you know that using words like "broken" can be misinterpreted by someone that's not religious? It's like speaking in "Christianese." Those of us on the inside might know that you're talking about "a broken and contrite state of humility," but someone with a mistrusting attitude might think it's some sort of violent or militaristic vocabulary ... and it might scare them. Don't you know anything?
Posted by: Your conscience at July 23, 2008 10:18 PMNothing wrong with that list at all. I've revisited my birthplace many times, of course, Hartford, CT isn't the most exotic place in the world.
Posted by: jay at July 24, 2008 12:44 PMGood call!
Posted by: Your conscience at July 27, 2008 01:12 PM