I’ll never forget seeing Brandi and the twins in Seattle about 17 years ago. Fell in love with her and haven’t fallen out of love since! She’s such a talent, let alone such a kind soul! So so sooo proud of her! So proud of our Seattle girl! ❤️
@@somerflowers I am lost for words... except maybe "wow". Of course, it's the voice that's the important thing, and that's obviously not "suffered the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune", either. If she wants a compliment, I'd say that she sings "A case of you" better than Joni does, which is saying a lot. (I know, !blasphemy! especially coming from a Canadian.)
"I guess I just process death differently than some folks. Realizing you're not going to see that person again is always the most difficult part about it. But that feeling settles, and then you are glad you had that person in your life, and then the happiness and the sadness get all swirled up inside you." -- John Prine
You know, these apparently wise sayings actually have no meaning. Empty chars. But they answer the question "are you ok?" All these justifications and reasons and explanations are to reason with hate. Don't throw pearls before swine kid. Make up your own sayings there is no reason to be quoting other people. "Process death?" What are we, death-eaters? Sorry. I dropped in from another dimenshin, don't know your customs.
John Prine was a regular at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in San Francisco, where I worked for many years and Brandi performed there from time to time, too. It’s lovely to see her honor him in such a personal way.
I attended Brandi's concert at Disney Hall in Los Angeles. What a magical concert it was! And to see Joni Mitchel & Elton John (from my seat) was simply awesome.
There is a lovely energy when @stephenathome is in the company of someone he truly adores. There is such a pure sweetness in this exchange. Watched it a lot. #lgbqt #johnprine #blue #joni #faith 💕💥🙏💕‼️😘
@Jessica McDaniels An artist / music shouldn’t make you this angry. It’s subjective like all arts. Perhaps listen to something you enjoy. Joni’s original Blue for example. ✌️
Brandi if you ever see this i just need to say.As a mother of a member of the LGBT community i admire you greatly. I admit i have only found you.Your music, your heart and soul of which is open and so honest. I know your journey wasn't easy.I parent the same. I hope some day you come here to Ireland. This is from a mother, grandmother and music lover. My 5yr old granddaughter asked "Alexa" to play " Joni Mitchell, the circle game ". My daughter, her mother almost fainted. That was a result of Nanny babysitting while her mum amd dad went to see Garth Brooks in concert in Dublin. My children have grown up with a musical backdrop. They will all be introduced to you without doubt Thank you and please come to Ireland.....in the Springtime, sorry,couldn't resist.☘
Funny that! But true. I'll let John have the credit for that because I love him, but that knowledge is something I grew up with as a machinist for all my life. In fact every machinist apprentice and trade school student hears that many times over well before they are ever allowed to get near a lathe. RIP John.
If queerfolk can be generous enough to want to join a congregation, that congregation really ought to have enough humility to be grateful, not to mention enough grace to be welcoming. Whoever got the message to turn them away was listening to somebody else besides Jesus.
@@tabaxikhajit4541 just being supportive like that, getting to know her friends and listening can do so much! Regardless of how people grow and change through their lives, positive core values like a strong focus on education will go with them. Congratulations on having such a wonderful child!
I'm straight but a couple years ago, 2018, I had a vision where GOD spoke to me and showed me His love and grace was specifically the same for those straight or gay. I went to a conservative Christian University, and many around me do not agree with this truth that God Himself revealed. It saddens me, the misjudgment, and the slippery slope of unrighteous pious prejudice and self righteous comparison many Christians slide down. If I could just say, by proxy to you, Brandi, I am so sorry for how we as a church community have treated you and all others with whom we are less familiar with, less educated about, rejecting and misjudging you.
Looking down and seeing Joni Mitchell holding hands with Elton John. It don't get much better than that. And I'm sure they were just as impressed with Brandi's talent as we all are.
Her talent is INSANE. And she's absolutely right, when we put our faith in people/churches...we get hurt. Cut out that middle man and just be you and the bug guy upstairs. Love you Brandi!
People with ADHD, on average, are more creative and more intelligent (as a group) than people with the usual brain type, initiating novel ideas much needed by their groups, although they aren't the best people to follow through on the day after day to implement their ideas necessarily. It takes a village. Mozart and DaVinci are generally thought to have had ADHD as well, based on writings by people who knew them. And there's a fascinating little percentage of bees called streaker bees, who are excitable and always zooming out exploring the world for new fields of flowers - they come back and dance with exuberance to communicate the amazing fields they've located, so the drones can come explore the new food source. Streaker bees save the hive that way. Interestingly, nature seems to keep a fairly stable percentage of the population continuing to have that ADHD brain structure (which differs in at least 7 areas), so it serves a function. Half of people with ADHD behaviors as kids do not grow out of it, btw - because it's structural. Inventive people - with ADHD labels - may be being born in large numbers right now because the human species needs new ideas and approaches so desperately (to stop wrecking ecosystems and wreaking havoc on each other).
Right on! ADD means a kid who is either raised on tv, cola and bad food, has a brain issue that disturbs normal process function or a creative person bored out of their mind in conformity school..sit and listen. ugh. they are kids. One size fits all is ignorant.
@@tlee4218 I used to teach at a high school for kids who weren't succeeding in regular school. We found a lot of them were right right brain dominant, with mad arts skills (they won county contests like crazy). Some were just brilliant and bored out of their minds, but I could have fun teaching them with college level materials. Many were auditory learners being asked to encode nearly everything via reading instead. Most were trying to survive nightmarish situations and still stay in school: like the homeless guy with brittle diabetes affecting his mood stability severely; the 16 year old trying to hold down a full time job and keep his schizophrenic mother from burning down the house; the girl struggling with emotional dysregulation from severe molestation allowed by her mother; the guy kidnapped by his Satanist uncle, hidden in another state and kept out of school for two years; and the diabetic girl who couldn't get medication, with both parents having lost both legs from diabetes - our social worker could find no help for their family so the student kept falling asleep at her desk). Then there were the two openly gay guys thrown out of their school by a principal who disliked gays. Most students in these kinds of family situations had fallen behind in reading skills (one girl abandoned with a young sibling in a hotel - Mom said she was going out for cigarettes and never came back - had taught herself to read despite missing much school by hiding in the bathroom and studying magazines). We would test students diagnostically and offer them materials they could read, then build them quickly to more capable reading abilities. They could gain two years of reading ability in a year's time, on average, because they were in a situation where they could succeed. We set up positive rewards and outings for them as much as possible and offered unconditional love and respect - which a surprising number never seemed to have experienced. We tailored instruction for each learning style and each student's particular abilities and tried to supported them all as best we could, tried to locate services for them - and many graduated despite the challenges of their home lives. Our school won a Governor's Award For Excellence. The school is gone though, now; the largely Republican school board didn't think our students were worth the extra expense of needing the smaller class sizes necessary for individualized instruction.
@@falconbritt5461 What a wonderful story, and an absolute tragedy that the politics, yet again, damaged the great teaching methods you used, which should be widespread, so that kids with ADHD - I have two, both boys - aren't simply thrown out as unteachable. My sons weren't brought up on a rubbish diet, or inactivity, or any of the 'reasons' chucked around to 'explain' the way the brain processes its functions; on the contrary, they were lively, funny, always on the go, and slim. Not couch potatoes. All teachers need to know how to recognise and deal with ADD, ADHD, OCD, which I accept is a tall order, but if the teacher's training is more detailed in these areas too, students and staff will each gain so much from education.
I'm listening to her book and I have one small criticism. Early on she says she had "situational dyslexia" when young and that she grew out of it. There's no such thing and people can't grow out of dyslexia. If her reading difficulty was situational or went away over time it was never dyslexia. That fact can be found in 60 seconds by simply googling it. She or her book editor should have done at least that. I know it may sound like nit picking but I am severely dyslexic and wasn't diagnosed till age 50 partly due to misinformation about dyslexia. We need less ignorance about this learning disability- not more.
Well this is fortuitous. I just woke from a trauma nightmare night. Pardon all this sweat. Body thought it was being burned alive under a '74 LTD. Ah, trauma. Never lets go of my dreams, but it never finishes killing me. Jus do it...
So you see, God made me, and she made me gay, and God doesn't make junk. So many people traumatized by religion. But religion is a creation of people, not of God. Don't hold the limitations of religion, and the people who made it, against God. And don't let religion interfere with your relationship with God.
"To earn more you are required to have multiple diversified means of income", Which is why investment is an avenue of making more money once it's profitable.
Most loss and failures in an investment usually happens when you invest without proper guide and the analysis of the profit and risk percentage of the investment
It's safe to have an investment manager who has vast knowledge on investment, to make you profit from your investment on your behalf while you monitor the investment growth
@Carolina Raymond Your investment portfolio is accessible by you alone. All Mrs Anna Meng does is make a decisions for you on investment that will yield you a good percentage rate of profit with zero risk of loosing and invest on it on your behalf, while you monitor the investment growth
She looks really young in this Zoom call. Her baptism story is really something (don't know why the Baptist preacher didn't tell her beforehand that he wouldn't baptize her--that was unnecessarily traumatic to reveal that to Carlile at the last minute)
According to her memoir, the pastor knew that she was openly gay when she took all those classes in preparation for the baptism, but minutes before the baptism, he had to ask her if she practiced witchcraft and if she practiced homosexuality. I think she writes that it seemed really hard for the pastor to ask her that, knowing that she couldn‘t renounce it, but I too am wondering why he didn‘t discuss it earlier with her. Maybe he thought that she‘d renounce being gay for the sake of getting baptized...
Maybe “god” is an essence...not so much a being. Maybe if we show love, that’s what “god” is. If we believe in love, that’s as much god as we need to believe in, and share. I truly believe that “god”, is a connection, love, whatever we do that makes us/others better. It’s not a thing, as much as a way to be. It’s not a being, used by societies in form of religion to control and condemn, but an intangible higher level ISness, within all humans. Just a thought, that I’ve considered! I do agree that we should start believing in each other more...absolutely. If we put as much effort into loving, as into judging or “othering”, our world would be turned on it’s head.
Now you have. Check out her NPR little tiny desk...for older stuff and the Grammy performance ‘The Joke’ for newer. Check out The Joke anyways, mind blowing. I heard of her a few years back, but only very recently really checked out her stuff after listening to her memoir. Wow. Her songwriting and performing is other level.
Yay, more religion... Clearly some people are so needful of their god fantasy that it doesn't matter what their so-called spiritual leaders do to them. Outright abuse will just be blown off as a "bad apple", a "bad congregation", "the wrong church", or they pull the old "I'm spiritual, not religious". They WANT to believe in magic, so they do. I guess this helps some people avert the horrible rejection and betrayal of a community, as Brandi Carlile described here (though I really do not understand how she felt supported when she was specifically rejected)... ...but this capacity to just believe whatever you want to, rather than remove yourself from belief entirely and operate from reality, is why we have those abusive congregations, churches, religions, cults, as well as the deluded people demanding to run our country under the guise of "righteousness" and "godliness". Being willing to reject critical thinking to believe in gods and their myths makes it easier to believe other myths and nonsense.
@@bsetal22 I still don't understand. Her family and community weren't being accepting? Yet, they rejected a preacher and rallied FOR her? Are you saying they had a change of heart and became accepting?
Spirituality minus the middle man is a GLORIOUS path! "Nothing between you and the unseen"! Thanks to Brandi for sharing that insight!
Brandi deserves so much all the good things happening for her. She's a genious made of pure, raw talent.
Sure. Everyone deserves that. Nurture artists, they nurture the world. Support support support is what brings anything to fruition.
@Jessica McDaniels country radio is as far from country as you can get.
I’ll never forget seeing Brandi and the twins in Seattle about 17 years ago. Fell in love with her and haven’t fallen out of love since! She’s such a talent, let alone such a kind soul! So so sooo proud of her! So proud of our Seattle girl! ❤️
I'm surprised (as a person who was, before today, unfamiliar with this performer) that this is even possible... what was she, about 4?
@@petercoo9177 she’s 39 🤣 so she was more like 22/23 when I first saw her 🤣 but I’m sure she’ll take that compliment and run! 🙌🏼
@@somerflowers I am lost for words... except maybe "wow".
Of course, it's the voice that's the important thing, and that's obviously not "suffered the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune", either. If she wants a compliment, I'd say that she sings "A case of you" better than Joni does, which is saying a lot. (I know, !blasphemy! especially coming from a Canadian.)
@@petercoo9177 can’t get a better complement than that! ❤️🙌🏼❤️
"I guess I just process death differently than some folks. Realizing you're not going to see that person again is always the most difficult part about it. But that feeling settles, and then you are glad you had that person in your life, and then the happiness and the sadness get all swirled up inside you." -- John Prine
That is a beautiful John Prine sing. Thank you for sharing it.
Yes
You know, these apparently wise sayings actually have no meaning. Empty chars. But they answer the question "are you ok?" All these justifications and reasons and explanations are to reason with hate. Don't throw pearls before swine kid. Make up your own sayings there is no reason to be quoting other people. "Process death?" What are we, death-eaters? Sorry. I dropped in from another dimenshin, don't know your customs.
John Prine was a regular at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in San Francisco, where I worked for many years and Brandi performed there from time to time, too. It’s lovely to see her honor him in such a personal way.
I attended Brandi's concert at Disney Hall in Los Angeles. What a magical concert it was! And to see Joni Mitchel & Elton John (from my seat) was simply awesome.
John Prine always gives me goosebumps.
A modern prophet for sure.
Thank You Brandi !!!
Stephen I love how you honor these greats in the fight for humanity and bring them to our awareness.
Thank you Brandi Carlile. And thank the courageous ones that have come before us to hold up that beacon. 💜❤️🧡💛💚💙
She is such a genuine treasure. IN love with her.
Hooray for more well deserved exposure to Brandi! I seriously can’t wait to read her book! 😊
Listen to the audiobook! There is music included.
Truly a tremendous artist. We are so lucky to have her.
Whew. This hits so deep. She’s officially my heroine.
Yay for Brandi!! One of America's top talents! Ok, worlds. But she lives with us.
@Jessica McDaniels Hope things are going well for you. And you get better from whatever inspired that comment!
Brandi is an American treasure, and one of the best singer/songwriters... ever...
There is a lovely energy when @stephenathome is in the company of someone he truly adores. There is such a pure sweetness in this exchange. Watched it a lot. #lgbqt #johnprine #blue #joni #faith 💕💥🙏💕‼️😘
I will never tire, of these two together.
"A prophet that makes you laugh." Wow. Beautiful.
Brandi singing Blue... amazing!!
@Jessica McDaniels An artist / music shouldn’t make you this angry. It’s subjective like all arts. Perhaps listen to something you enjoy. Joni’s original Blue for example. ✌️
Brandi. John is and forever shall be exactly as you described. He's my friend, too and like everyone else I miss him
Brandi is def my crush. Authenticity and honesty just exudes from her music
Brandi if you ever see this i just need to say.As a mother of a member of the LGBT community i admire you greatly. I admit i have only found you.Your music, your heart and soul of which is open and so honest. I know your journey wasn't easy.I parent the same. I hope some day you come here to Ireland. This is from a mother, grandmother and music lover. My 5yr old granddaughter asked "Alexa" to play " Joni Mitchell, the circle game ". My daughter, her mother almost fainted. That was a result of Nanny babysitting while her mum amd dad went to see Garth Brooks in concert in Dublin. My children have grown up with a musical backdrop. They will all be introduced to you without doubt Thank you and please come to Ireland.....in the Springtime, sorry,couldn't resist.☘
What a beautiful human being, Brandi Carlile ♥♥♥
"Never wear your necktie while you're operating a lathe." -- John Prine
Funny that! But true. I'll let John have the credit for that because I love him, but that knowledge is something I grew up with as a machinist for all my life. In fact every machinist apprentice and trade school student hears that many times over well before they are ever allowed to get near a lathe. RIP John.
And only wear clip-ons if you're expecting hand-to-hand.
That baptism story says all about hating and not loving.
Face timing has magically heralded singers to openly break out in a song serindipodously to bring chills laced with love.
Synthesized it perfectly, Ms Pencek
She looks better than EVER!...even AMAZING!
Takes effort not to fall in love with a wonderful person like Brandi.
If queerfolk can be generous enough to want to join a congregation, that congregation really ought to have enough humility to be grateful, not to mention enough grace to be welcoming. Whoever got the message to turn them away was listening to somebody else besides Jesus.
She is awesome. She was one of the artists that helped with Wynonna Judd's tour.
Oh yay, two of my favorite people :)
I lost 40 years of my life as a trans woman due to repression by the church. I'm hoping something beautiful can come of that too
Congrats on coming out! I hope your life is filled with happiness, love, and support. ❤️
❤️ I’m happy for you !!
So much love to you on your journey, may the next 40 be filled with beauty 💕
@@tabaxikhajit4541 just being supportive like that, getting to know her friends and listening can do so much! Regardless of how people grow and change through their lives, positive core values like a strong focus on education will go with them. Congratulations on having such a wonderful child!
i hope you can be happy now!! ♥️
all my support
Wow! Brandi looks so great! I love her!
The chips and cracks are what make us beautiful, y'ask me.
I was baptized here in Butte MOntana at Episcopal Church uptown when I was an adult..
this story breaks my heart ♥️
Love love love Brandi Carlile❤️
Lyle Lovett led me to John Prine who has now led me to Brandi Carlile.
Love her. Loved the book! She's an inspirstion at almost half my age!
i knew there was i reason i love her.
she's gay. like me.
I'm straight but a couple years ago, 2018, I had a vision where GOD spoke to me and showed me His love and grace was specifically the same for those straight or gay. I went to a conservative Christian University, and many around me do not agree with this truth that God Himself revealed. It saddens me, the misjudgment, and the slippery slope of unrighteous pious prejudice and self righteous comparison many Christians slide down. If I could just say, by proxy to you, Brandi, I am so sorry for how we as a church community have treated you and all others with whom we are less familiar with, less educated about, rejecting and misjudging you.
P.S. Bear Creek got me through the toughest time during my divorce. Thank you so much for your beautiful heartfelt music. It really moves me.❤️
LOVE HER!
Her song's are amazing
What a beautiful voice
Love the Carlisle mindspeak
Thank you, John Prine, but there is much more than this
I would love to see Brandi and Julien Baker perform together
Brandi: Its good to be w/you
Everyome: Filled of TEASING
Looking down and seeing Joni Mitchell holding hands with Elton John. It don't get much better than that. And I'm sure they were just as impressed with Brandi's talent as we all are.
Beautiful
Was the Blue concert recorded? Sounds spiritual
Her talent is INSANE. And she's absolutely right, when we put our faith in people/churches...we get hurt. Cut out that middle man and just be you and the bug guy upstairs. Love you Brandi!
"For lack of a better word, the Lord"
Kind of glad to be among the first 1000 views vewers (720).
Fun fact: She has accomplished all this stuff, but in high school was diagnosed with ADD.
People with ADHD, on average, are more creative and more intelligent (as a group) than people with the usual brain type, initiating novel ideas much needed by their groups, although they aren't the best people to follow through on the day after day to implement their ideas necessarily. It takes a village. Mozart and DaVinci are generally thought to have had ADHD as well, based on writings by people who knew them. And there's a fascinating little percentage of bees called streaker bees, who are excitable and always zooming out exploring the world for new fields of flowers - they come back and dance with exuberance to communicate the amazing fields they've located, so the drones can come explore the new food source. Streaker bees save the hive that way. Interestingly, nature seems to keep a fairly stable percentage of the population continuing to have that ADHD brain structure (which differs in at least 7 areas), so it serves a function. Half of people with ADHD behaviors as kids do not grow out of it, btw - because it's structural. Inventive people - with ADHD labels - may be being born in large numbers right now because the human species needs new ideas and approaches so desperately (to stop wrecking ecosystems and wreaking havoc on each other).
Right on! ADD means a kid who is either raised on tv, cola and bad food, has a brain issue that disturbs normal process function or a creative person bored out of their mind in conformity school..sit and listen. ugh. they are kids. One size fits all is ignorant.
@@tlee4218 I used to teach at a high school for kids who weren't succeeding in regular school. We found a lot of them were right right brain dominant, with mad arts skills (they won county contests like crazy). Some were just brilliant and bored out of their minds, but I could have fun teaching them with college level materials. Many were auditory learners being asked to encode nearly everything via reading instead.
Most were trying to survive nightmarish situations and still stay in school: like the homeless guy with brittle diabetes affecting his mood stability severely; the 16 year old trying to hold down a full time job and keep his schizophrenic mother from burning down the house; the girl struggling with emotional dysregulation from severe molestation allowed by her mother; the guy kidnapped by his Satanist uncle, hidden in another state and kept out of school for two years; and the diabetic girl who couldn't get medication, with both parents having lost both legs from diabetes - our social worker could find no help for their family so the student kept falling asleep at her desk). Then there were the two openly gay guys thrown out of their school by a principal who disliked gays.
Most students in these kinds of family situations had fallen behind in reading skills (one girl abandoned with a young sibling in a hotel - Mom said she was going out for cigarettes and never came back - had taught herself to read despite missing much school by hiding in the bathroom and studying magazines). We would test students diagnostically and offer them materials they could read, then build them quickly to more capable reading abilities. They could gain two years of reading ability in a year's time, on average, because they were in a situation where they could succeed.
We set up positive rewards and outings for them as much as possible and offered unconditional love and respect - which a surprising number never seemed to have experienced. We tailored instruction for each learning style and each student's particular abilities and tried to supported them all as best we could, tried to locate services for them - and many graduated despite the challenges of their home lives. Our school won a Governor's Award For Excellence.
The school is gone though, now; the largely Republican school board didn't think our students were worth the extra expense of needing the smaller class sizes necessary for individualized instruction.
@@falconbritt5461 What a wonderful story, and an absolute tragedy that the politics, yet again, damaged the great teaching methods you used, which should be widespread, so that kids with ADHD - I have two, both boys - aren't simply thrown out as unteachable.
My sons weren't brought up on a rubbish diet, or inactivity, or any of the 'reasons' chucked around to 'explain' the way the brain processes its functions; on the contrary, they were lively, funny, always on the go, and slim. Not couch potatoes.
All teachers need to know how to recognise and deal with ADD, ADHD, OCD, which I accept is a tall order, but if the teacher's training is more detailed in these areas too, students and staff will each gain so much from education.
'I love that "If you cut out the middle man", Ill be using that.
I'm listening to her book and I have one small criticism. Early on she says she had "situational dyslexia" when young and that she grew out of it. There's no such thing and people can't grow out of dyslexia. If her reading difficulty was situational or went away over time it was never dyslexia. That fact can be found in 60 seconds by simply googling it. She or her book editor should have done at least that. I know it may sound like nit picking but I am severely dyslexic and wasn't diagnosed till age 50 partly due to misinformation about dyslexia. We need less ignorance about this learning disability- not more.
Wow
Well this is fortuitous. I just woke from a trauma nightmare night. Pardon all this sweat. Body thought it was being burned alive under a '74 LTD.
Ah, trauma. Never lets go of my dreams, but it never finishes killing me. Jus do it...
I invite you to do energy work to release that trauma from your body.
@@patspears2226 Thanks, but the dreams never go away. After 46yrs of them, all I can do is acknowledge the dream and keep going.
So you see, God made me, and she made me gay, and God doesn't make junk. So many people traumatized by religion. But religion is a creation of people, not of God. Don't hold the limitations of religion, and the people who made it, against God. And don't let religion interfere with your relationship with God.
some interviews just shouldn't happen on company time. I am weak but tho aren't strong. who keeps me from all wrong?
If you don't find means of multiplying money,you will wake up one day to realise that the money you thought you had ,has finished investment is key.
"To earn more you are required to have multiple diversified means of income", Which is why investment is an avenue of making more money once it's profitable.
Most loss and failures in an investment usually happens when you invest without proper guide and the analysis of the profit and risk percentage of the investment
It's safe to have an investment manager who has vast knowledge on investment, to make you profit from your investment on your behalf while you monitor the investment growth
@Carolina Raymond My investment manager is Mrs Anna Meng, she is an expertise when it comes to Investment that yields a good percentage rate of profit
@Carolina Raymond Your investment portfolio is accessible by you alone. All Mrs Anna Meng does is make a decisions for you on investment that will yield you a good percentage rate of profit with zero risk of loosing and invest on it on your behalf, while you monitor the investment growth
Boy Howdy you can really get anyone from Central Casting
Wouldn’t it be better to have the “good things” without the trauma?
SMEAR MERCHANT
Knock knock.
Who’s there?
Coronavirus!!!!
She looks really young in this Zoom call. Her baptism story is really something (don't know why the Baptist preacher didn't tell her beforehand that he wouldn't baptize her--that was unnecessarily traumatic to reveal that to Carlile at the last minute)
According to her memoir, the pastor knew that she was openly gay when she took all those classes in preparation for the baptism, but minutes before the baptism, he had to ask her if she practiced witchcraft and if she practiced homosexuality. I think she writes that it seemed really hard for the pastor to ask her that, knowing that she couldn‘t renounce it, but I too am wondering why he didn‘t discuss it earlier with her. Maybe he thought that she‘d renounce being gay for the sake of getting baptized...
where can I get that bomber jacket that Brandi Carlile has?
🐎🐴🎠
Does this story start when she was NINE OR SEVENTEEN?
All signs are Just Saying Seventeen, ya know? Ya know?
Not first!
People should stop believing in saints or gods and start believing in each other just a little more. We would be better off for it.
Maybe “god” is an essence...not so much a being. Maybe if we show love, that’s what “god” is.
If we believe in love, that’s as much god as we need to believe in, and share.
I truly believe that “god”, is a connection, love, whatever we do that makes us/others better. It’s not a thing, as much as a way to be.
It’s not a being, used by societies in form of religion to control and condemn, but an intangible higher level ISness, within all humans.
Just a thought, that I’ve considered!
I do agree that we should start believing in each other more...absolutely.
If we put as much effort into loving, as into judging or “othering”, our world would be turned on it’s head.
An exercise in ignorance. The only lesson to learn from Christianity is to get away from all religions. Love is not bound by social forms.
Never heard of her.
Now you have. Check out her NPR little tiny desk...for older stuff and the Grammy performance ‘The Joke’ for newer. Check out The Joke anyways, mind blowing.
I heard of her a few years back, but only very recently really checked out her stuff after listening to her memoir. Wow.
Her songwriting and performing is other level.
@@Alphacentauri819 Thanks.
Yay, more religion... Clearly some people are so needful of their god fantasy that it doesn't matter what their so-called spiritual leaders do to them. Outright abuse will just be blown off as a "bad apple", a "bad congregation", "the wrong church", or they pull the old "I'm spiritual, not religious". They WANT to believe in magic, so they do.
I guess this helps some people avert the horrible rejection and betrayal of a community, as Brandi Carlile described here (though I really do not understand how she felt supported when she was specifically rejected)...
...but this capacity to just believe whatever you want to, rather than remove yourself from belief entirely and operate from reality, is why we have those abusive congregations, churches, religions, cults, as well as the deluded people demanding to run our country under the guise of "righteousness" and "godliness". Being willing to reject critical thinking to believe in gods and their myths makes it easier to believe other myths and nonsense.
Her family and community, who had not been very accepting, rejected the preacher and rallied around her. That is her meaning. Read the book .
@@bsetal22 I still don't understand. Her family and community weren't being accepting? Yet, they rejected a preacher and rallied FOR her? Are you saying they had a change of heart and became accepting?