While I gather my thoughts post-Olympics and decide how I am possibly going to sum up the experience in a blog post, let’s start with this. I recommend fast forwarding to 1:00 and just being patient so you can get used to what the water sounds like before the city explodes.
I’ll be back.
I only have one more day to reach the goal I set before Christmas, of raising $500 for clean water in developing countries. It’s not much in comparison with the $80,000-something someone recently raised. But it’s big to me, and to each person who gave.
It’s big to the 25 people who by this time next year will take a drink of water that will nourish their bodies and not make them sick.
If you’ve got 20 bucks, or 10 or 50, put it towards changing life for the people of the Central African Republic, and many other communities who have been through so much.
Donate to my campaign here and watch my favorite new video from charity: water. So good.
charity: water promo featuring “Time Bomb” by Beck from charity: water on Vimeo.
There’s a new album out by an artist I love, Matisyahu. If you’ve never heard of him he’s “an American Hasidic Jewish reggae superstar” who writes songs about his passion for his faith and for God. Yep.
He sings from the Psalms a lot, or (and I might get the spelling wrong so blame Wikipedia) Tehillim, תְהִלִּים, or “praises”. I like to imagine that if King David was born today his songs might have sounded like this. Don’t say no right away, just think about it.
This is what Matisyahu says about King David at once of his concerts before he sang the Tehillim, Refuge. Continue reading
Check out this video John showed me. It’s a music video someone made using a ton of people and their webcams. Watch the whole thing, it just gets amazing, I don’t know how they coordinated it all.
A shot of reality.