Can't post about this organization often enough. I truly believe that slavery is among the greatest evils/atrocities in our world today. These guys are legitimately doing something about it.
“A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence.” - Leopold Stokowski
I think that music is in itself just undifferentiated emotion. Emotion waiting to be labeled.
Songwriters find it on accident sometimes, like buried treasure. The right melody or combination of chords stumbles out of their mouth or hands, and there it is: an emotion. Happiness. Sadness. Regret. Hope.
A good songwriter can get onto it like a surfer clumsily riding a wave. He or she knows where it is, can find it, and can even manage to tame it sometimes by attaching their message to it.
GREAT songwriters knows how to make it. They know what they want to express, and then they do so.
My favorite involved rats, old TV's, and a wonderful mother of a friend/english teacher of mine. In the dream, we were talking about poetry, and she said this:
"Sometimes poetry so perfectly describes how I feel, that I think I must have written it myself and forgotten that I did."
I seriously love that quote, even if my subconscious version of Mrs. Luoma made it up.
My name is Sam.
Nothing in this life compares to Jesus, or the weight of His love.
I try to live as if I knew that.
I like to take pictures and sing songs.