- Ann Voskamp is one of my favorite writers. Her latest essay, “Learning to Forgive (your parents),” is classic Voskamp. Do yourself a great favor and read this wise and moving piece. If you check click the link after today, you’ll need to scroll down to this one.
- First of July, the Spring Hill paper published a profile of me. I just remembered it and thought I’d pass it along.
- Marshall Grant died this past Sunday. He was Johnny Cash’s bass player for many years…part of the “Tennessee Two.” I’ve read much about him and his death this week. But this pieceby the AP’s Chris Talbot is the best thing I’ve read on him. I thank my son, Eddie, for passing it on.I really love Grant’s remembrance here of how they — Johnny Cash, Luther Perkins, and Marshall Grant — created that “boom-chicka-boom” sound. And, his insight that, “Our inability had more to do with our success than our ability did…” None of them were great musicians (Grant put strips of scotch tape on the base neck so he could remember where to put his fingers).This is another reminder that we should lead with our weakness rather than our strength. I practice that…which is very easy for me, because I have many more weaknesses than strengths! :-)Of course, most people lead with their strength. But our weaknesses, our “inabilities,” will make us more vulnerable and that opens us to those mysterious muses, those breezes from Heaven, that we would have missed in our “full metal jacket” mode.
Again, good article with good insight.
