Dancing In The Minefields

It's a stormin' and a blowin' here in Nashville. With tornado watches all afternoon, a little Andrew Peterson sounds pretty good. Go "Dancing In The Minefields" on this blustery day:



Blessings,

KB

Back To The Future Friday

Ran across the link to Irina Werning's project "Back To The Future" and am absolutely fascinated by these photos.

You can see more of the fabulous before and afters here. Happy Friday!

Blessings,

KB

P.S. Trent Dabbs' "Quite Often" feels good on a sunny day like today. 

From This Valley

The Civil Wars are one of my current favorite bands and while all their stuff is wonderful, when I heard them play this little tune on "A Prairie Home Companion" a couple of weeks ago I became instantly attached to it.



So enjoy The Civil Wars playing "From This Valley" on such a pretty spring evening.

Blessings,

KB

9 Fruits

Hey Nashvillians! Want to win a $50 gift card to the yummiest smoothie shop in Nashville/Franklin? Then follow us on twitter and retweet our 9 Fruits promotion before the end of April for a chance to win $50 of whole fruit goodness!

http://ninefruits.com/

One Day Without Shoes



Today is the 5th of April 2011 and it's time to go barefoot.

TOMS Shoes is asking us to go without shoes today to raise awareness for all the men, women and children around the world that are walking to school, work, church, etc without shoes.



TOMS in Kolkata.



Above is a picture of myself and a child in Kolkata. This little boy is one of the million children who needs a pair of shoes. Please support organizations like TOMS Shoes. Been a big fan of their product for a while and am a big fan of this day. Hope y'all will join along.

Blessings,

KB

P.S. Today I'm spinning Bob Marley's "Redemption Song"

April 3, 1968

"It was on this day in 1968 that Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his final speech in Memphis, Tennessee, where he had come to support striking sanitation workers.

He said: "The nation is sick. Trouble is in the land; confusion all around. That's a strange statement. But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars. … Something is happening in our world. The masses of people are rising up. And wherever they are assembled today, whether they are in Johannesburg, South Africa; Nairobi, Kenya; Accra, Ghana; New York City; Atlanta, Georgia; Jackson, Mississippi; or Memphis, Tennessee — the cry is always the same: 'We want to be free.'"

And ...

"We've got to stay together and maintain unity. You know, whenever Pharaoh wanted to prolong the period of slavery in Egypt, he had a favorite, favorite formula for doing it. What was that? He kept the slaves fighting among themselves. But whenever the slaves get together, something happens in Pharaoh's court, and he cannot hold the slaves in slavery. When the slaves get together, that's the beginning of getting out of slavery. Now let us maintain unity."

And ...

"Let us rise up tonight with a greater readiness. Let us stand with a greater determination. And let us move on in these powerful days, these days of challenge to make America what it ought to be. We have an opportunity to make America a better nation."

And ...



"Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land!"
The next day, he was assassinated." The Writer's Almanac

Blessings,

KB

Happy April Fool's Day!

Happy April Fool's Day!

"And of course today is April Fools' Day, a day for good-natured pranks, hoaxes, and general silliness. The earliest recorded association between April 1st and foolishness is in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales in 1392, although this may be a result of misinterpretation rather than Chaucer's intention: in "The Nuns' Priest's Tale," there is a line "Since March began thirty days and two ..." which is probably a reference to the May 2nd betrothal of King Richard II to Anne of Bohemia, and not "March 32nd" as readers interpreted it. In any case, the story features Chanticleer, a vain rooster, being tricked by a fox, and some believe that's how the date became associated with harmless trickery.
Many cultures have lighthearted celebrations around this time of year, and, in the Northern Hemisphere, it may be related to the spring equinox. One explanation for the April Fools' holiday seemed plausible, until it was revealed as a hoax itself — Joseph Boskin, a professor of history at Boston University, said the practice dated back to the reign of Emperor Constantine, who was challenged by his jesters that a fool could run the empire as well as he did. Constantine appointed Kugel the jester "king for a day," and one of Kugel's acts was to decree an annual day of merriment. The Associated Press ran with the story, and didn't realize Boskin had made the whole thing up until a couple of weeks later.
One April Fools' Day announcement that was not a hoax was in 2004, when Google announced its new Gmail service. People couldn't be blamed for thinking it was a prank, given Google's propensity for April Fools' leg-pulling, and the announced 1-gigabyte online storage for e-mail was far larger than anything any other company had offered." The Writer's Almanac