singing forgiveness songs in the city of brotherly love

so many cool things happened this weekend.

i drove down to philly with some lively people. it ended up being a fun, scenic drive. we stayed over some people’s house in the city. one of my favorite things in life is being with people are awesomely hospitable. they let me sleep in their bed and made me pancakes, and i used their shower. just nice people. Allah, Allah, Allah, in everyone we meet!

the next morning i left the fun people i came with and met up with kristin came from lancaster and we spent the day site-seeing. we went to the liberty bell…definitely an interesting experience…ironic that they used the liberty bell as a symbol to prompt people to buy war bonds. oh my. but i guess that’s why we have to blow up iraq huh? We have to bring liberty! ….okay political tangent over.

but then we went to the philadelphia museum of art. i took a lot of pictures on my phone of all the paintings of st.francis. he’s my favorite. other than that i especially liked the paintings that depicted crazy events that happened to royalty long ago in india. here’s a picture of my favorite one called, “Maharao Ram Singh II of Kota Riding His Horse on the Palace Roof”:


after the museum it was off to mewithoutYou’s c.d. release show! in line i saw a couple peeps from geneva, as well as a girl i used to babysit when i was in middle school! and it’s a small world after all. but what a show. despite the fact that kristin was surrounded by teenage boys that wanted to feel her up and i was surrounded by teenage girls that liked to elbow people for no reason, we both enjoyed the show. oh yeah, and there was also this other kid who i called “loud guy to our left” who kept yelling stupid things. people are crazy, i keep forgetting this. there was such a good vibe! and it was so cute the parents of the boys in the band (in their khaki shorts and button up shirts) were all there in the balcony watching. a fantastic time was had.

then i went home to lancaster and got to see my family. my grandparents even made a surprise visit! i was glad just to spend a little bit of time with them. i won’t get to see them very much since i’ll be living in the good ol’ bf.

here are some verses from the last song that mwY played at the show:

it doesn’t matter what you’ve done
It doesn’t matter what you’ve done
what effect is without a cause?
it doesn’t matter what you’ve done
now lay your faithless head down
in necessity’s Cotton Hand
there’s a Love that never changes
no matter what you’ve done.

or if you’re old man did you wrong
you’re old man did you wrong
if you’re old man did you wrong
maybe his old man did him wrong
if you care to sing forgiveness songs
come down and join our band
we’ll cut you like a Sword
and sing forgiveness songs!