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For my nephew, Samuel Potter Brown IV
of Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Happy Birthday today, and Merry Christmas.

From John Fahey's 1975 album, "The New Possibility". It's one of my favourite Christmas albums. Fahey said he only did these because they sold so well, and he needed the money. Yet he always caught the emotion, and for many of the songs, the dignity and reverence due them as well.

A wonderful tune with Fahey's characteristic syncopation.

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"As an atheist, I acknowledge that the idea of God is the greatest -- the biggest and most terrible -- idea humans have ever had. . . [N]onetheless the idea of God is the supreme marker of our existential depth"

-- philosopher, Raymond Tallis