Hand Me Downs

I can’t even begin to fill you in on all of the life that’s happened since last I blogged.  So, as I catch up from touring and all of the other life that’s happened, I leave you with this wonderful quote from Vaclav Havel .  Thanks to Raymond Craig for  jogging my memory,  thanks to Matthew Smith for jogging it further, thanks to Kevin Twit for finding Marva Dawn for those of us involved in Indelible Grace, thanks to Marva Dawn for originally publishing this quote and all of her other good work, thanks to Vaclav Havel for living with so much beauty and courage.

Chew on this one for a bit, and go and do likewise.

In her book, A Royal Waste of Time, Marva Dawn tells of Vaclav Havel, a playwright who is also the president of the Czech Republic. He was asked, how the revolution to overthrow communism in the Czech Republic was bloodless and yet had experienced real staying power. He simply replied, “We had our parallel society. And in that parallel society, we wrote our plays and sang our songs and read our poems, until we knew the truth so well that we could go out into the streets of Prague and say, ‘We don’t believe your lies anymore!’ And communism had to fall.”

Tags: Indelible Grace, Kevin Twit, Marva Dawn, Matthew Smith, plays, poems, Vaclav Havel, Velvet Revolution