One of the Best

Here's a great speech by one of my very favorite apostles. This speech seems really appropriate as there are many new beginnings for many of us right now. Have a great day!

Text:http://speeches.byu.edu/reader/reader.php?id=12522

Video:http://byutv.org/watch/7c1b2fce-20bf-4688-bc0b-622ef958e2c0

Tap Dancing

I really enjoy a great tap dance number. Whether it's the snappy rhythms, well dressed guys, or happy songs, I don't really care. All I know is I love a good tap number. Have a great day!

Alleluia

This is my favorite song from the "Men of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir" album. It's also one of my favorite words to say, so hey! It's a double whammy!

Have a great day!

The House by the Side of the Road by Sam Walter Foss

There are hermit souls that live withdrawn
In the place of their self-content;
There are souls like stars, that dwell apart,
In a fellowless firmament;
There are pioneer souls that blaze the paths
Where highways never ran-
But let me live by the side of the road
And be a friend to man.

Let me live in a house by the side of the road
Where the race of men go by-
The men who are good and the men who are bad,
As good and as bad as I.
I would not sit in the scorner's seat
Nor hurl the cynic's ban-
Let me live in a house by the side of the road
And be a friend to man.

I see from my house by the side of the road
By the side of the highway of life,
The men who press with the ardor of hope,
The men who are faint with the strife,
But I turn not away from their smiles and tears,
Both parts of an infinite plan-
Let me live in a house by the side of the road
And be a friend to man.

I know there are brook-gladdened meadows ahead,
And mountains of wearisome height;
That the road passes on through the long afternoon
And stretches away to the night.
And still I rejoice when the travelers rejoice
And weep with the strangers that moan,
Nor live in my house by the side of the road
Like a man who dwells alone.

Let me live in my house by the side of the road,
Where the race of men go by-
They are good, they are bad, they are weak, they are strong,
Wise, foolish - so am I.
Then why should I sit in the scorner's seat,
Or hurl the cynic's ban?
Let me live in my house by the side of the road
And be a friend to man.

Just a Little Post

"Ah music! A magic beyond all we do here!" - Albus Dumbledore

Hey, why don't you go listen to a great song? A symphony, a movie score, a country tune, a pop hit, a classic rock ballad, a hymn, whatever it is, go enjoy it. Nothing quite like a song, nothing quite like it all.

Have a great day!

A Noiseless Patient Spider

A Noiseless Patient Spider
By Walt Whitman

A noiseless patient spider,
I mark'd where on a little promontory it stood isolated,
Mark'd how to explore the vacant vast surrounding,
It launch'd forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself,

Ever unreeling them, ever tirelessly speeding them.

And you O my soul where you stand,
Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space,
Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing, seeking the spheres to connect them,

Till the bridge you will need be form'd, till the ductile anchor hold,

Till the gossamer thread you fling catch somewhere,
O my soul.

A Worthy Cause

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