"Song on the Wind"

Earlier tonight, my folks and I went to a live theatre presentation by the New Life Drama Coompany, a local non-denominational church group whose ministry is producing/staging musicals to help spread the Gospel, or at least help Christians to read the Bible more. Some years back, they did a musical version of the book of Ruth in the Bible, and they also did a top-notch musical adaptation of John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress". Well, tonight, they created something completely original: in collaboration with a group of local Christian Native Americans, they produced a musical about the early European settlers in Massachusetts and the Massachusett Indian tribes living alongside them, how initially the whites and the Massachusett were able to live peacefully, but how their relationship grew strained, and yet how a small group of Christian Indians managed to survive all that, and how their community lives on today among the Natick Praying Indians, some of whom performed one of their tribal songs/dances at the very end of the musical. Very inspiring, and it covered a chapter of our state's history that isn't talked much about, but deserves to be told and remembered. And among the places in the area it dealt with, they even mentioned "Wamesit", which is a district of my hometown!

Wierd people in the grocery store

Cross-posted from "customerssuck"... If you've wondered why I've been so deathly quiet the past few days, this is why:

( Story # 1: The Kid on the Bicycle We had to Throw Out )

( Story # 2: The Case of the Nasty Soda Lady )