These Our Hymns Of Grateful Praise:
A Cover Lay Down Thanksgiving Mix
It’s Thanksgiving, and just in time, too: breakneck momentum takes over this time of year, until routines long established begin to fray around the edges; maybe we need a few days off to rethink our priorities.
We’re already grateful as we slowly settle into an unexpected off-day, here at home with our festival feast delayed by weather. Outside, the Christmas radio stations have already kicked into gear, and the world is tense with race and ruin, capitalism and the cold hard stand of conviction, but the snow-blurred landscape blocks everything out. And now the music is low, the lights are soft; children in flannel nightgowns pad barefoot in and out of the kitchen, dropping sleepy kisses in their wake; the pellet stove whirs and warms the neighbor’s borrowed dogs until they fall asleep in our laps.
The Thanksgiving hymnal is sparser than most, but we are quiet, today, and the mixed-marriage Jewnitarian tradition we practice digs deep into all corners of the earth. And oh, we have have so much to be thankful for: the world bright with promise, and ourselves with strength and love enough to work and play in it together. A collection of praise, then, from modern to mostly traditional, that we might skip the tinsel, and stick to the hope and the holy, the gravy and the grace this Thanksgiving season.
These Our Hymns Of Grateful Praise
A Thanksgiving Coverfolk Mix [download!]
- Kallet, Epstein & Cicone: Holy Now (orig. Peter Mayer) [2008]
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Category: Holiday Coverfolk, Mixtapes, Tradfolk 2 comments »
November 27th, 2014 at 3:09 pm
Mutual Kumquat? You made that one up.
Happy thanksgiving!
November 30th, 2014 at 7:02 pm
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