This post is originally from the NASCAR blog.
Last night, Mrs. Dude and I had the privilege of having dinner with two remarkable people: Beth Jahnsen and Dawn Wisner-Johnson (you can read more about them here). We talked about our experiences in the contemporary Christian music world, then and now with emphasis on the now: the upcoming DVD of the concert put on by Take Two last year, my dusting off my journalist days via beginning to develop a book talking to the artists involved so they can tell their remarkable stories to the world.
The book will be my main focus in the upcoming months. I hope you’ll indulge me if I occasionally reference it here.
Anyway, one of the most enjoyable aspects of the evening was the ability to talk about something once a burning passion in my life, and now again the same, with people of the same mindset. The ability to share with kindred spirits is a wonderful thing, relishing the camaraderie of those who were not only there, but were actively involved in creating the ‘there’ far more than I did.
Let’s take this to NASCAR. Isn’t this what it should be about? Fans getting together to cheer and boo and argue and celebrate and commiserate? If you don’t have that, frankly you don’t have anything worth having.
And that’s no way to live.
