Walking Dan

New music that I heard I didn't listen to much music since I used my dish washing time to listen to podcasts. And the library was shut down so I couldn't get any more CDs for my car.  That was kind of the extent of my music listening before.  I did watch this amazing guitar solo though: Best podcast episode that I heard I have been listening to the podcast, The Bible for Normal People. My favorite ones have probably been these: Episode 125: Pete Enns - Big Ideas that Shaped Biblical Scholarship: Julius Wellhausen and the Pentateuch Episode 123: Jared Byas - Rediscovering Jonah - Part 1 I'm doing the awkward thing where you try to balance listening to old episodes of the podcast and catching the new ones as well. Best Photo May 2020: Right before our window framing was replaced    New movie recap I did not watch any movies for the first time.  As a family, we did watch The Princess Bride together for the first time.  Watchi...

It was much harder to blog every day this month.  The weather got nicer, and the kids started staying up later, and my personal free time shrank down to almost nothing.  So this won't be as comprehensive as the March blog post. New music that I heard The best song I heard was "Chelsea Bridge" , with pianist John DiMartino, and Eric Alexander on saxophone, heard on a jazz program on public radio.  Feel free to listen as you read this post!   Movie recap Accidentally left off the blog post for March 2020 was "The Lorax" (2012)   I ranked this 8 out of 10 stars.  I thought there was a lot of good humor, action, and animation, and a moral message as well.   I did not think it was overly preachy or environmentalist, because it was all hyperbole and entertaining. We watched "The Graduate" (1967) , to finish off our viewing of the original AFI Top 100 list, where it came in as ranked #7. I ranked this 6 out of 10 stars.   I was di...