My kind of garden!

A few years ago my wife became a fan of the American Idol TV show, especially of the winner last year, 2008, David Cook. This year the TV show was of interest to both of us since a local person Danny Gorky was one of the finalists. Tonight we went to the American Idol Live tour show, featuring the top 10 finalists.

The Idol type of Rock N Roll is not my style of music, but I must admit the show, both years, was entertaining. The light show was fantastic even though I felt somewhat frustrated as I do with this type of music, since I cannot understand the words of the songs. Also the beat is fast, hard and loud to my ears.

I felt like a Catholic in an Evangelical Church service. Catholic services can be much refrained and Evangelical service can be very enthusiastic but if Catholic is what you are brought up with you find the Evangelical service entertaining but not as meaningful.

Another metaphor that might be more to the point is that of a garden on a calm and serene day and a garden during a severe thunderstorm. In one case, the garden’s environment is silent and reflective and in the other scenario, like the music tonight, it is noisy and loud. However, there sure is a strong fan base in the white middle class, almost all of the audience at the concert tonight, for this music. So what I might call loud and noisy is beautiful music to someone else’s ear.

This morning was wet and rainy and this afternoon it was bright and sunny in the garden. We need both environments in the garden.

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