It’s our nation’s birthday. So celebrate appropriately. Drink a beer…
…watch a parade…
…or a baseball game…
…or a John Wayne movie…
…or some movie that demonstrates how, yes, Americans are exceptional…
…wear red, white and blue…
…get out into the Great Outdoors even if it is just sitting on your patio drinking that Yuengling! Smell the pine in your nostrils!
And, by God, be thankful you live in this country. (As the Madcaps say, “You could be living in Venezuela!”)
*Frances Scott Key
O thus be it ever when freemen shall stand Between their lov’d home and the war’s desolation! Blest with vict’ry and peace may the heav’n rescued land Praise the power that hath made and preserv’d us a nation! Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto – “In God is our trust,” And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
November is here and the quick slide to the holidays commences. Good grief. I have a lot of catching up to do.
You may have heard that a special one-night-only benefit concert featuring some of Eastern Kentucky’s biggest names in music was held in Lexington on October 11. Ricky Skaggs had a big hand in organizing the event and it raised over 2.5 million for flood relief. The event featured performances by Chris Stapleton, Dwight Yoakam and Tyler Childers. And this one with Chris and lovely Patty Loveless was pretty great…
Today we toast Lyle Lovett (born on this day in 1957) whom we have seen in concert several times and would gladly see again. He is a proud Texan, growing up in Klein where his family has ranched for five generations.
Here’s a new song about his twins that I really like:
All I have I gladly give them All I am they will exceed And one thing I know for sure If they improve the likes of me They make a better man of me
So to my father and my mother And to our fathers long before There are those who walk above us Who’ll remember that we were They will remember that we were
Yesterday was the anniversary of the death of our pater, ANC III, and of my great friend Dick (aka WWII Guy). It might be time to watch She Wore A Yellow Ribbon (1949) in their memory.
LORD, thou hast been our refuge, * from one generation to another. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever the earth and the world were made, * thou art God from everlasting, and the world without end. Thou turnest man to destruction; * again thou sayest, Come again, ye children of men. For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, * and as a watch in the night. As soon as thou scatterest them they are even as a sleep, * and fade away suddenly like the grass. In the morning it is green, and groweth up; * but in the evening it is cut down, dried up, and withered. For we consume away in thy displeasure, * and are afraid at thy wrathful indignation. Thou hast set our misdeeds before thee, * and our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
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