LEE DOMANN NEWSLETTER--October, 2005

Table of Contents:
1. Welcome
2. Highway Heroes
3. Itinerary Through January, 2006
4. Quarterly Quote

1. WELCOME...
...to another newsletter. It was a positive summer here at our house, but in unexpected ways. Norma went to Albuquerque, New Mexico for eleven weeks to get some relief from her long-time chronic pain. It worked. The humidity is magic out there. She was a "new" person when I met her at the airport. No cane, no pain meds, no blinding headaches. Though I missed her greatly, time alone here (with Henry, the Maltese) was good for me, too. I wrote more songs than I have in years. Hopefully, you'll hear some of these down the road. As I write this, Willie is on the road for five weeks in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria. He's playing bass for a blues band out of Nashville. We have a lot to be grateful for. And we are.

2. HIGHWAY HEROES -- As you know, each newsletter features someone who has made a significant impact in the world - someone I'd like you to know about. I'd be surprised if any of you don't know about Rosa Parks. Most of us are aware that she died this week in Detroit at the age of 92. Her heroism came not on a highway, but on a city street. We remember that in Montgomery, Alabama in December, 1955 she refused to give up her public bus seat to a white man when he demanded it. We know that it was a critical event pushing forward the momentum of the civil rights movement for racial equality. What has struck me the most in media accounts about that day is that she's quoted as once having said, "It was a day no different than any other day. The only thing that made it significant was that the masses of the people joined in." She took the dangerous gamble, not because she was born a hero, but because she had to for the sake of her own sense of dignity and humanness. It makes me think of Martin Luther challenging the established church in the 16th century when he said, "Here I stand. I can do no other." It also makes me think of the chorus to a song once recorded by my friend, Joe Sun, and later by Merle Haggard:

"Oh, how many travelers get weary
Bearing both their burdens and their scars
Don't you think they'd love to stop complaining
And fly like eagles out among the stars"
by Adam Mitchell
copyright (Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp.)

Fly free, Rosa Parks. Thank you for your witness.

3. ITINERARY THROUGH JANUARY, 2006
(for more info, contact Lee at leedomann@hotmail.com or 615-292-8357)
UMC = United Methodist Church

2005
Nov. 6 - Trinity Heights UMC/ Newton, KS
am worship 316-283-6410
Nov. 6 - Wellsville UMC/ Wellsville, KS
4:30 pm concert 785-883-2737
Nov. 13 - First UMC/ Nolensville, TN
am worship 615-776-2815
Nov. 20 - Paola UMC/ Paola, KS
am worship 913-294-3475
Nov. 27 - UMC of Westford/ Westford, MA
978-692-4176
Dec. 11 - Rose Hill UMC/ Rose Hill, KS
am worship 316-776-2212
Dec. 11 - St. Mary's UMC/ St. Mary's, KS
7:00 pm concert 785-437-6584

2006
Jan. 8 - Lancaster UMC/ Lancaster, CA
am worship 661-942-0419


4. QUARTERLY QUOTE

"As a Christian monotheist, I start with two unproven axioms:
1. There is a God. 2. It's not me (and it's also not you). Together these axioms imply my surest conviction: that some of my beliefs (and yours) contain error. We are, from dust to dust, finite and fallible."
-- David Myers, psychology professor
Hope College
(from 1/04/05 NEW YORK TIMES)