Rick Mang Music (RM2): Texas wines . . .

Saturday, November 26, 2011

Texas wines . . .

A great website to learn more about the wine industry here in the great State of Texas can be found at www.gotexanwine.org.

Or, just click here.

One of my favorite hobby activities is to visit area wineries around where we live or are visiting.

God's grace still amazes me . . . ><>

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Welcome to . . .

Maker of a Joyful Noise - RM2 . . . The blog of Rev. Rick Mang ...

-Ordained United Methodist minister / Senior Associate Pastor
-Certified Therapeutic Music Entertainer,
-Men's Ministry leader/speaker,
-Stephen Ministry leader,
-and ministry mentor.

Rick provides therapeutic music entertainment . . .

-To children in hospitals (as a TME volunteer for Hugworks)

-To seniors at area nursing homes and retirement centers
-At community or church camps and retreats

-At after school programs

Rick also provides music entertainment . . .

-At local restaurants, coffee houses and house concerts
-At local RV parks, campgrounds, and for BSA events

-For civic group, library, school and church gatherings, and community fairs and festivals
-For weddings and funerals

-Community festivals

-And at House Concerts

Schedule permitting, Rick is available to be the song leader / music performer at Sunday worship services, mid-week services, Men's or Family retreats, church camps and Vacation Bible School (still his favorite music venue).

Instruments that Rick plays include . . .

-12 string guitar
-6 string guitar
-tenor banjo
-baritone Ukulele/Cuatro
-djembe.

In addition, Rick is also a son, husband, father, grandfather, uncle, cousin, efforting Christian, Bible student and teacher, collector of Tilley Hats, internet guitar forum moderator, folk music historian, folk philsopher, Texas folklorist/wildflower gardener and photographer, multi-species fisherman, day hiker/beach bum who loves the Texas Gulf Coast, the Texas Hill Country, the Ozark Mountains of northwest Arkansas, and "God's Country" in the plains and mountains of Northeast New Mexico.

Thoughts about singing and music . . .

"I've stopped trying to make life work and started to make life sing." - Leonard Sweet

"As long as I have my guitar, I'll be fine." - Willie Nelson

"How can I keep from singing?" - Robert Lowry

"To sing once is to pray twice." - Augustine of Hippo (354-430)

"But music was his life, it was not his livelihood,and it made him feel so happy and it made him feel so good. And he sang from his heart and he sang from his soul. He did not know how well he sang; it just made him whole." - Harry Chapin - chorus of Mr. Tanner.

The "Disclaimer" Thing . . .

It goes without saying, but here it is anyway ....

The thoughts, opinions, ideas, stories, meditations, prayers, and other information written anywhere on this blog are usually my own ramblings and responses to things I have seen, heard, read or witnessed. I write out of the ever changing and conflicted struggle that exists between my head and my heart as I try to live out my life mission in the best and most productive way I can.

What I write or share in no way reflects the views of any church, denomination, political party, friend, relative, writer, musical group, musician friend, artist, fishing buddy, felllow hiker, walker, other blogger, city, state, county, nation, or for that matter anybody else you could ever hope to think of.

Sometimes, the words and thoughts of others are so well written, and touch me so deeply, that I am moved to share them. When and if I share the words and thoughts of others, I honestly try to give and acknowledge appropriate credit, and will do so if you bring it to my attention that I haven't.