O'Connor O'Riginals: choir

Thursday, May 5, 2011

I need to remember this...

A friend posted this on FB today and it's something I've been thinking about for a long time, although this image says it much better than my thoughts have been.

I'm pretty sure I'm not wasting my life, but I'm also not taking time to "smell the roses" and so forth. Much of my time seems to be taken up doing things for Cushing's people, for church people, for my Mom.

The only things I do for ME are to nap, sing in the church choir and ring handbells.
A long, long time ago I took various classes at a local REC center and they had this sign up.

It's so true - this is the only one we get and mine is almost half over (*ahem*) so I need to start re-prioritizing and get out there more.

It's time for ME!

Now, I just have to figure out what I want to do...after my nap.

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Sunday, October 24, 2010

40 Days of Thankfulness: Day Thirteen

Today I am thankful for my church choir.

I've had a long history with singing from the time I was a kid singing in the choir at my Dad's church. In High School we had a great choir and it was the time before "political correctness" would have banned us from singing such wonderful classical music like Brahms' German Requiem. In college, as a music major, there were choirs and when we finally got to our current home, I joined Sweet Adelines.

I was a member of Sweet Adelines for 10 years, before Cushing's robbed me of that particular pleasure. SA takes lot of energy between rehearsals, performances, competitions, travelling. I just loved it but I couldn't keep up.

For a few years, I belonged to a local woman's group but even that got to be too much after a while. There wasn't the travelling or the competitions but rehearsals and performances cut into that energy.

Last year, our choir director opened up the opportunity to sing for just the Christmas Cantata. No long term committment and only half the rehearsal time for about 10 weeks.

I hadn't sung anywere outside my car for about 10 years but, with trepidation, I signed up. Because of my bell-ringing and work with children's choirs, I knew most of the other choir members and that made it a LOT easier on shy-me.

Christmas came and singing with the choir and orchestra was just fantastic. There was the invitation to stay, to become a part of the choir for good but I had my Cushing's Interviews on Thursday nights and I couldn't see how I could work all this in.

Last spring the choir sang How Lovely Is Thy Dwelling Place from Brahms' German Requiem and I was hooked. How could I not join?