Much to say
It has been an amazing couple of weeks...so much to write about and so little time. I took a trip up to Vancouver, BC over labor day weekend to attend the Pearl Jam concert and was able to bring a good friend along. This friend is a huge fan of the band and ha never before seen them live, so the trip was a very cool experience. Some observations:
- Pearl Jam has been around for a long time. They played songs off of their first album, Ten, that brought me back to the early years of high school in many ways. Then I stopped to think and realized that these songs came out about 14 years ago. So basically this was a "classic rock" show!
- Sharing in someone else's joy is an amazing thing.
- Vancouver BC is a beautiful city. It is also filled with more human suffering in the space of a few blocks than one could fathom or imagine. The Hastings Street area is unbelievable, like something you would see in a movie but would not believe could exist in the Western world. It is a visceral statement on just how "modern" we really are, and just how well our "systems" work. I regret that I could not spend more time there, and gotten to see some of the beauty among the wreckage.
I am going to resist the urge to post on the hot topics of the day (hurricane) for now, perhaps if I can think of something to say that has not been repeated many times I will do so. Needless to say the anger still boils, the extent of our brokenness gets exposed in the midday sun. All is not well and we can isolate ourselves no longer.
- Pearl Jam has been around for a long time. They played songs off of their first album, Ten, that brought me back to the early years of high school in many ways. Then I stopped to think and realized that these songs came out about 14 years ago. So basically this was a "classic rock" show!
- Sharing in someone else's joy is an amazing thing.
- Vancouver BC is a beautiful city. It is also filled with more human suffering in the space of a few blocks than one could fathom or imagine. The Hastings Street area is unbelievable, like something you would see in a movie but would not believe could exist in the Western world. It is a visceral statement on just how "modern" we really are, and just how well our "systems" work. I regret that I could not spend more time there, and gotten to see some of the beauty among the wreckage.
I am going to resist the urge to post on the hot topics of the day (hurricane) for now, perhaps if I can think of something to say that has not been repeated many times I will do so. Needless to say the anger still boils, the extent of our brokenness gets exposed in the midday sun. All is not well and we can isolate ourselves no longer.