Thank you for letting us sing to you: Confessions of a choir crasher
You’ve heard of party crashers and wedding crashers, but perhaps you have never heard of a choir crasher. That’s me, the person who, back in the doldrums of September as election campaigns were still in full swing, shorter days and longer nights were just beginning to descend, and when Christmas trees were not yet at […]
I sing all the verses at Christmas
It is the music that makes it feel like Christmas to me. To the chagrin of my family, I turn on the Christmas stations and put in the Christmas CDs and hum along with the songs piped in at the mall. I am positively impossible at Christmastime. But this year is not like previous Christmas […]
Against All Odds
What lingers? Our hearts and senses are left to fend for themselves. To remember, but not with our minds exactly, more with our spirits. We no longer have the crutch of words or explanations or analysis. We can no longer touch or taste or see or hear. But we still feel. Something remains. What is […]
In Mary, God became flesh (actually)
How soon the Christmas carols that were being piped over speakers and intercoms everywhere are silenced. At the gym yesterday, there was no music. Just the sounds of people doing what they do in the weight room, on the track, in the locker room. I noticed the silence. This is odd because, as my kids will tell you, I […]
Wait Up, Can You Hum a few Bars?
So much of life yells, “Move Faster!” at me. Mostly, it is just me who is doing the yelling at me. I’m pretty sure the world is perfectly satisfied to leave me behind. Perhaps it is only my sense of self-importance that makes me want to keep up. Lately, it’s been more of a “Move […]