Too bad I don't work in Hollywood: I could blame my blogging absence on the writer's strike. ;) As it is, I've no one to blame but myself...but I guess I've dragged out my hiatus about as long as I can justify.

In the days to come I'll work back into the usuals -- like the homeschooling mom who fled her home rather than put her kids in public school <true story>. Or the mom who got kicked off a public bus for reading the Bible while on her way to church with her kids <no details yet, just heard about it on the radio>. And I'll probably start writing about my experiences in Senegal as a way of helping process some of the things I saw.

However, as the header says, I'm easing back in. Hence, three videos from youtube that have come to my attention in recent months.

• A beautifully creative youth group 'skit' <for lack of a better word> to the song Who Am I, by Casting Crowns, using only white gloves and black lights.
  
• The first audition for Paul Potts on Britain's Got Talent. I wouldn't have known about this if someone hadn't sent the link, but it brought me to tears in a triumph of the human spirit kind of way.
• And I can't help but include a football video that I just read about in Time magazine. Trinity University's 15-lateral, 61-yard touchdown with 2 seconds left on the clock. Try not to laugh too hard at the announcers as the clip progresses.