I am like you: sometimes I dread work. “Ahhh,” I sigh, like an overstuffed cat, “Can’t I just sit here and eat bon-bons by the fire a little longer? Do I have to go to work?”
Except.
Except.
I actually never say that. I never call choir rehearsal “work”. Email? That’s work. Paperwork? Yep. Uniform ordering? Fireside bon-bons, please.
But choir rehearsal is not work. I will come in to rehearsal after a long day with my little ones (yes, motherhood is often work) and with the first community breath we all breathe together, the kinks release and a beautiful spinning note out of the mouths of our singers dances over me and they are giving their best and I am giving my best and we are singing together and concentrating together and yes working together and suddenly we are alive.
At the end of rehearsal, we depart full of hope for what we have and can accomplish. Full of the promise of beauty that has filled us up and overflowed and has been shared. Yeah. Believe it. Believe in the Power of Song.
Posted: November 7, 2013 by admin
Who needs a spa when we’ve got choir?
I am like you: sometimes I dread work. “Ahhh,” I sigh, like an overstuffed cat, “Can’t I just sit here and eat bon-bons by the fire a little longer? Do I have to go to work?”
Except.
Except.
I actually never say that. I never call choir rehearsal “work”. Email? That’s work. Paperwork? Yep. Uniform ordering? Fireside bon-bons, please.
But choir rehearsal is not work. I will come in to rehearsal after a long day with my little ones (yes, motherhood is often work) and with the first community breath we all breathe together, the kinks release and a beautiful spinning note out of the mouths of our singers dances over me and they are giving their best and I am giving my best and we are singing together and concentrating together and yes working together and suddenly we are alive.
At the end of rehearsal, we depart full of hope for what we have and can accomplish. Full of the promise of beauty that has filled us up and overflowed and has been shared. Yeah. Believe it. Believe in the Power of Song.
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