Summer songs

I have been wanting to share my summertime playlist that I made a few weeks back, but I didn't know how to link songs to the blog, and I would rather give you a way to hear the songs than just list them. But I didn't know how to do that because I am slow with learning how to write a blog.

I almost wrote just now that "I didn't do that because "I am retarded." That is a phrase we used when we were in elementary and middle school, and for some reason, I have never been able to break myself of that phrase. It is not a nice thing to say, and I wanted to publicly confess that I have been wrong in saying it. When we were in Albuquerque last week, I was getting up from the table of Weck's restaurant, talking to michael accross the room and i was commenting on something dumb that I had done and said, "I am so..." and then I looked and directly behind him was this precious boy who obviously had a developmental disability. And he was beautiful and had the sweetest family. They were all enjoying themselves at their lunch, and I almost said that offensive comment right in their ears. I was convicted that the Lord was trying to show me how wrong of a statement that is, and that I have said it way too much. So... I am telling you - so that you can remind me if I say it in front of you, that I don't want to say that anymore.

anyway.

here are some of the songs that I have been enjoying this summer:

• Kodachrome by Paul Simon
• Sunny Afternoon by the Kinks
• Fly Me to the Moon by Julie London
• The One on the Right is the One on the Left by Johnny Cash
• Johnny Cash's entire children's album
• Sky Blue Sky, Heavy Metal Drummer, and You Never Know by Wilco
• Green Summer Lawn by the Vigilantes of Love
• Jorom/Monkey Yanga on The Rough Guide to the Music of Nigeria and Ghana
  
• Cuban Pete by Tito Puente
• John the Revelator by Blind Willie Johnson
  
• Solider by the Blind Boys of Alabama
• Girl by Beck
• I'll Fly Away by Etta James

and look...I figured out how to link some of them to YouTube. I am gettin' smarter all the time.