Helping to Change the World…Word by Word
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Helping to Change the World Word by Word
I love the game of basketball. The Harlem Globetrotters have been entertaining audiences for the last 89 years with their incredible skills. This five minute video shows individual team members setting seven new Guinness World Records last week in one afternoon on November 12th in Phoenix. Go ahead…try any one of these at home and see how hard it is.
(By the way, the second record in the video shattered one set by NBA stars Kevin Durant and Dirk Nowitzki.)
I like reading lists of great books in hopes of discovering one I had missed or had not considered reading before. About ten days ago Josh Katzowitz had an article on Newmax listing the top ten most popular Christian novels of all time. Click through to see his comments on each title. Below are his top ten: A Wrinkle in Time – Madeleine L’Engle Christy – Catherine Marshall The End of the Affair – …
In celebration of the birth of our first grandchild last week (Caleb!) I bring you a YouTube favorite: “Puppies and a Baby!” The combination should bring a smile to your face.
Dressing up your poor dog and taking a photo? Priceless. (No that is not our dog. We have a cat. But on Halloween we tell people she is a dog in disguise.)
This past Thursday the Barna Group released the results of their survey called “The State of Books and Reading in a Digital World.” Feel free to click through to read the report yourself. Meanwhile there are a few observations of my own. Confirms What We Already Know About Gender For the entire 34 years I’ve been in the book industry we’ve concluded that women buy more books than men. The survey …
Jeffrey Li and Celine Tam, ages 10 and 7 respectively, give a stunning performance of Josh Groban’s “You Raise Me Up.” Keep watching as it builds and builds to an exhilarating conclusion. (And if you want more, the boy did a solo a couple weeks earlier which is shown below.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeUJ4Y-XOeY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veIs0TQyaaM
Phoenix is home to the MIM (Musical Instrument Museum) where there are over 6,000 instruments on display. If you are ever in town plan to visit! Today’s video is a fellow who is called Mystery Guitar Man who plays 90 of the instruments from the museum … at the same time (via some top level video editing, of course). How many of them can you name? Beside “guitar” and …
One of my favorite Bach compositions (Cello Suite No. 1 in G major) completely re-envisioned with a different instrument and setting and personal creativity. A great artist can take the familiar and give it a slight twist or two and make it their own. May this inspire you to do this with your writing today.
