"I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about...I'd like to think they were singing about something so beautiful it can't be expressed in words, and it makes your heart ache because of it. I tell you those voices soared, higher and farther than anybody in a grey place dares to dream. It was like some beautiful bird flapped into our drab little cage and made these walls dissolve away, and for the briefest of moments, every last man in Shawshank felt free."

Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding

Saturday, January 8, 2011

why write this blog

I love seeing redemption in everything, from the arts to relationships and even to the news. Redemption opens our eyes to the beauty around us. We see something that is broken or old be transformed into something new and beautiful.

My desire in writing this blog is somewhat selfish. I want my eyes to see redemption. I get tired of only seeing the bad, the ugly, the broken around me and want to put on these "lenses" that help me see the bigger picture. If I know that I'll be writing a blog about it, then I can have a different perspective about the world around me

I think a lot of people would say that our country, or our planet is going to "hell in a handbasket".

I think it's all about how you look at.
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