Wednesday, May 06, 2009

The Great Divorce on stage

If you want to see an excellent staged production of C.S. Lewis's The Great Divorce, and you live in the Milwaukee area, come and see Acacia Theater's production beginning this weekend. My daughter is performing in it as, among other things, a spirit. The script is by a Jesuit, George Drance, S.J.

My Baby Needs a Shepherd

This song is a moving, if ideosyncratic reflection on the human needs and human failings that make our need for the Good Shepherd so poignantly intense. Good thing to reflect on this week. I've loved Emmylou Harris since I was a kid.