A summit, a b-o-o-k, and a first rate gift

Sorry it's been a bit since the last entry---busy, busy, busy---graduation was wonderful and I am still making appointments. I think I am down to one part time, but until it is done, I will not fully rest...Reminds me of when I was at Kirkwood 20+ years ago as Minister of Education and I had to get about 60 teachers each year (with the help of the education work area) and I would never take vacation in the summer until I had them all...wish I had an "appointment work area"...oh, yes, there is the cabinet of course but everybody else is about at the same place I am.

Several items:

IF ANYONE IS AT SEQUOYAH AND READING THIS (Amy, Matt, etc.) please let me know how the young adult summit is going! Wish I was there instead of the Fairfield Inn in Columbia awaiting more cabinet meeting tomorrow.

SSSHHHHH--I understand the b-o-o-k idea is going to the editorial board at Abingdon week after next...ssshhh---pray.

The main thing I want to write about tonight:

Cana Ruth cut me a cd of songs for Mothers Day. Most of them we have heard together at some time over the last couple of years, and I said, when we listened to a particular song that I liked it---a couple of them she included, knowing that I would appeciate them. I am SO delighted with this! I asked her yesterday how she remembered I liked some of these, and she said, "Mom, you are so memorable when you like something!" I had her write out the playlist for me. This is the order they are on on the CD.

1) (They Tried to Make me Go to) Rehab---Amy Winehouse (I LOVE her!!!)

2) Chain of Fools---Aretha Franklin

3) (You Ain't Nothing But A) Hound Dog---Big Mama Thornton (my fave version)

4) Doesn't Remind Me of Anything---Audioslave (authentic guys, authentic)

5) Changes---David Bowie

6) Under Pressure---David Bowie and Queen (hmmm, now why would she put this on here, I wonder :-})

7) Sylvia's Mother---Doctor Hook and the Medicine Show

8) Cover of the Rolling Stone--- Doctor Hook again (I remember sitting in the Liberty parsonage garage listening to this with Cana, her hearing it for the first time and us laughing out loud--she has had a subscription to Rolling Stone for three yeas)

9) Ain't That A Shame---Fats Domino

10) Piece of My Heart---Janis Joplin

11) River of Babylon---The Melodians (my favorite version next to Don McLean's of course--I didn't know that Cana knew this, but she did)

12) Heroes--Queen/David Bowie

13) People Have the Power---Patti Smith

14) Wish List--Pearl Jam (one of Cana's favorite bands...she and I agree that they, along with 3 or 4 others, are above the crowd musically)

15) Family Affair---Sly and the Family Stone (whom I saw when I was in college live, and Cana has to suffer that story everytime we hear a Sly song)

16) Istanbul (not Constantinople)--They Might Be Giants (I probably own 5 versions of Istanbul on my Space Age Pop cds of which I have gobs; this version is the only one that not only makes me move, but makes me laugh!)

17) Jesus Gonna Be There--Tom Waits (enough said)

What a neat thing! Made even better, this music thing was, as Kendall used a Garbage song today in his cabinet devotion, a hard to hear, but important song See my Scars. And the fact that at the last cabinet, just after I heard Amy Winehouse for the first time on the radio, and the kids told me more about her, Kendall said "You have to listen to Amy Winehouse"---and I already had, just a couple days before.

I promise to blog more after AC!!! Really! PS I am doing really well!!!