Musica Memento 12 ~ Walk and Talk Like Angels

Posted on April 4, 2024 by Daniel J. Miller

Music is the GPS of memory. It can take us back immediately to a place, relationship, or experience—painful, exhilarating, transformative—to a moment, month, or year of our lives. Toni Child's UNION brings me back to 1988, to her song "Walk and Talk Read more [...]

Love is Come Again, Like Wheat that Springs Up Green

Posted on March 31, 2024 by Daniel J. Miller

"Now the Green Blade Riseth" may well be my favorite Easter Carol. The original meaning of the word “carol” was "a joyful song." This is a wonderful rendition by two monks—Isaiah and Cyprian—from The New Camaldoli Hermitage down the road from Read more [...]

Join the Revolution — Be a Pebble

Posted on March 4, 2024 by Daniel J. Miller

Out of the mouth of babes. ~ some wise toddler https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWQoZbgGh9o Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little. ~ Rev. Sydney Smith What I want to bring out is how a pebble Read more [...]

Injustice Anywhere is a Threat to Justice Everywhere.

Posted on January 16, 2024 by Daniel J. Miller

"We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. Letter from Birmingham, Alabama jail, April 16, 1963. ARTWORK: Read more [...]

Cry of a Tiny Babe — A Carol

Posted on December 25, 2023 by Daniel J. Miller

“For it isn’t to the palace that the Christ child comes, but to shepherds and street people, hookers and bums”. Cry of a Tiny Babe 1 March 1990. Toronto, Canada Mary grows a child without the help of a man Joseph get upset because he Read more [...]

O Holy Night

Posted on December 24, 2023 by Daniel J. Miller

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Dq199-_sFo O Holy Night O holy night, the stars are brightly shining, It is the night of our dear Saviour’s birth; Long lay the world in sin and error pining, 'Till he appeared and the soul felt its worth. The Read more [...]

The Blessed Tension—When Suffering and Beauty Kiss

Posted on November 15, 2023 by Daniel J. Miller

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMxd_XwsKsw Beauty will save the world. ~ Dostoevsky Alexander Solzhenitsyn also wrestled with this line in his 1970 Nobel Prize acceptance speech, and we're lucky to be privy to his chain of thought here: "One Read more [...]

Today’s Good Medicine

Posted on October 10, 2023 by Daniel J. Miller

~ BIG BLESSINGS, GOODPEOPLE

Sunday Take Five ~ A Music Break for Body & Soul

Posted on June 25, 2023 by Daniel J. Miller

Dearly Beloved ~ Yoko Shimomura The RU Philharmonic Orchestra Nicholas Canellakis, Cello Jon Kimura Parker, Piano https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=vKUd-j8MnIk Dvorak (arr. Fischer) - "Goin' Home" for Cello and Piano Nicholas Read more [...]

The World Will Be Saved By ——

Posted on June 4, 2023 by Daniel J. Miller

There is an all-too-familiar adage—"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder"—that has allowed many to assume beauty is utterly subjective. In fact, beauty is no more subjective than goodness or truth which together allude to the triadic nature of God. Read more [...]

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