Singing Along the Journey

Over the past week or so, I have been thinking a lot about my experiences at the song festival in Granada.  In particular, I have been thinking about the last masterclass that we did. It took me a while during that class to realize that, what the guest teacher was trying to get from me [...]

Yesterday, the congregation at the Calvary Baptist Church gave me a present.  They probably don’t know that they did, but they did…a great big, warm, sloppy wet kiss of faith and love.  And all they did was do what they do best — be the best they can be at being the community of Jesus [...]

Yesterday, I filled in for Pastor Leah at Thomas House.   My adventures at Thomas House, have, well, been very formative for me in this my spiritual quest (you can read about my first solo visit here).   And I have high hopes that my organ playing will improve now that my friend Elaine pointed to me [...]

There are moments when we face a seemingly little choice, but how we choose can change the whole course of our lives.  Funny thing, we don’t always see those moments when we face them.  Luckily, yesterday, I did. Right now, I’m on the train between Granada and Madrid on the final leg of my journey [...]

Last year, I declared a moritorium on two things:  taking classes and travelling to sing.  And it served me well…I needed to sit and listen.  From that decision to basically stand still, a lot of good things came…I heard more clearly the call of God in my life, I was baptized, I was licensed, I [...]

I’ve been thinking alot about the reasons why we as singers sing.  Obviously from the other entries here in this blog, you know that I think about that topic alot.  But being in a context in which I am watching a lot of other people sing, and singing myself, certainly makes it come to the [...]

Yes, I have arrived.  Greetings from Madrid. My trip itself was, gratefully, uneventful.  Interesting seat mate that made the first part of the journey less than comfortable, but that is flying in the modern world for most of us.  The biggest problem I have at the moment is where to have dinner and, oh yes, the [...]

Last night, my beagle Gracie went to her first “yappie hour” with the DC Beagle Meetup Group. For those of you who don’t do the doggie ciruit, a “yappie hour” is really a happy hour, just for dogs AND people.  There are biscuits, AND hors d’oeuvres, and bowls of water all around. These events are [...]

…well, maybe there was a choir director or two there as well. Yesterday, at my beloved Calvary Baptist Church, we played host to a series of sessions that were part of the American Guild of Organists (AGO) national convention, which was held here in Washington, D.C., this year.  It was a fine day devoted to [...]

If you’ve been reading some of my ramblings here, you understand that I have a pretty strong “observer-self”…I long ago developed a pretty dispassionate way of stepping back and taking a look at my behavior patterns and seeing what they tell me about my life, my spirit, and my sense of balance.  And one of [...]