Dear lovers of music, mystery, and meaning,
Happy Thanksgiving!
🥧 I hope you're enjoying your traditions this holiday. One of mine has become making Hilly's Pumpkin Caramel Pie. It's really over-the-top, but ever since it went viral on TikTok a few years ago, I haven't looked back.
🪚 Last week I heard a musical saw as part of the Aram Khachaturian Piano Concerto. The musical saw was played by Robert Froehner, who immediately struck me as The Guy That You Call When You Need Musical Saw™.
I was right. He is that guy. He's played everywhere.
The other thing that struck me was how much the musical saw sounds like a theremin. And what other instrument does Mr. Froehner specialize in? You guessed it: theremin.
Froehner's website (theremin-saw.com) is a delight, and he lists performances with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Dallas Symphony Orchestra alongside the Pocket Sandwich Dinner Theater (Dallas) and Dallas Public Library.
⌛ from The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry by John Mark Comer:
There’s a reason people talk about “walking” with God, not “running” with God. It’s because God is love.
In his book Three Mile an Hour God, the late Japanese theologian Kosuke Koyama put this language around it:“God walks ‘slowly’ because he is love. If he is not love he would have gone much faster. Love has its speed. It is an inner speed. It is a spiritual speed. It is a different kind of speed from the technological speed to which we are accustomed. It is ‘slow’ yet it is lord over all other speeds since it is the speed of love.”
Until next week,
-David
-David