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influential/flint misc
Fellow listees:
Ok this may reveal more about my age than I
probably would rather divulge, but here goes anyway:
flint CD: Styx - Grand Illusion. Really
anything by them always serves as a spark for me when I am in the doldrums of
life. For the record, OtR music is "life music" that has more of a
presence, if you will. It can be reflective and introspective.
It can be motivating, calming, distracting and background all at the same
time. It makes me want to sing or dance, work harder, treat people better,
and enjoy life more. I find it to be the soundtrack in my mind
rather than the collection of CDs in my changer. So I'd give them the
new category of "soundtrack" rather than flint or influential.
influential: Rez Band - Colors. I got
this cassette when I was in high school (when the alternatives were the
Imperials or Sandy Patti. I was fortuntate enough to have a Sunday School
teacher that turned me on to Danial Amos, Randy Stonehill, Larry Norman,
Servant, and of course Resurrection Band. I don't think I would have
persisted as a Christian had I not know that this music existed.)
flint reading: Tolkien's Hobbit and LotR.
Always an inspiring annual read. Honorable mentions go to anything in the
Irish poetry genres or history (any).
influential book: The Green Letters (author slips
my mind). This is a serious discussion of Romans that helped me through
some of the more difficult questions of my faith. Runner-ups go to various
works by CS Lewis, and a scripture memorization study known as Masterlife (for
those who may remember this craze among Baptists in the 80s).
Movie: Although "Patton" with George C. Scott has
always been handy as a "school of management" tool, I'd have to go with "The
Agony and the Ecstacy." If this doesn't inspire you to complete your
life's work...nothing will.
"When wiill you make an end?"
David
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David Dean
Department of
History
Arizona State University