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Ted Lasso and the Hope That Doesn’t Kill You

Gary Furr

I am one of the last people to binge watch “Ted Lasso,” so I’d already heard plenty before viewing it. If anything, it was having to sign on to one more app (Apple TV) that took me so long. They count on you forgetting that you’re paying $4.95 a month to so many places. Television is that complicated. Jason Sudeikis surprised me. I am not young enough to have watched all of his work, so my impressions from SNL and a few movies cause me to mentally typecast him as a funnyman in slapstick comedies. I was disarmed in the … Continue reading Ted Lasso and the Hope That Doesn’t Kill You

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A Prayer for Friends Who Have Lost Loved Ones 

Gary Furr

Life in its beginning, life at the end, all is pure and true gift beautiful and real. That there can be life at all, pulsing, real, changing us by holding onto it, astounds us. Love is real, making a dent in our cynicism and pride, real, changing us by causing us to break our hearts to let it in Hope is so fragile in this world amid the darkness and suffering all around us,           But it is real, It dares us to lift our eyes from anger and despair to believe that it all means something. Faith, so powerful … Continue reading A Prayer for Friends Who Have Lost Loved Ones 

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Wobbling On the High Wire

Gary Furr

Holy Week has always  been special for me as a Christian and pastor.  Frankly, in the church year it always meant more to me than Christmas, though I adore Christmas for the deep cultural sense of family, baby Jesus and joy. Holy Week is not the same tone. It is juxtaposed with an equally perilous spiritual history, Passover, when the Hebrew people were delivered by God from slavery and oppression, but not without great anxiety and fear. For Christians, it is a somber week that strips away, day after day, one human pretension of pride after another until all that … Continue reading Wobbling On the High Wire

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The King of Dynamite

Gary Furr

A young boy was born in Sweden in 1833, the son of an engineer, fourth of eight children.  The boy was sickly as a child and learned the fundamentals of his father’s trade.  He had intellectual curiosity and, like many other little boys, an intense interest in blowing things up.  But this boy was different.  Alfred Nobel continued to study explosives and military equipment, which his father’s factory manufactured during the Crimean War.  When the war ended and they tried to switch to peaceful purposes, they went bankrupt. Alfred began experimenting with explosives and managed to find a way to … Continue reading The King of Dynamite

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Flat Tire On Memory Lane CD

Gary Furr

The first batch of CDs are here. Depending on your generation, you either prefer vinyl (really old or really young!), streaming or CDs. A lot of my fans still like to hold something in their hands- a book or a compact disc. So it’s here. I am really proud of this project. It ended up taking longer than I first thought, but these songs, both writing and recording, are the result of a long period of tending and reflection. My friend Mark Weldon joins me on this project and contributed four of the originals. The rest, except for “I’ll Fly … Continue reading Flat Tire On Memory Lane CD