Deep Breaths
I noticed it for the first time during the Exsultet at the Easter Vigil. Despite being focused on a lot of words and a lot of notes, despite being unnerved […]
singing
The Greatest Gift
Better exhausted in the evening than bored all day. I’m not sure if I came up with that myself or heard it somewhere, but I often repeat it as I’m
Performing Life
How often are you acting like yourself, instead of being yourself? That was a question I confronted during the first silent retreat I went on, when I was in college. Stripped of
A Lent of Less
Around this time a few years ago I was trudging through winter weather to get to a rehearsal on a weeknight and I thought to myself “It’s amazing that we
Beauty ever ancient, ever new
When I was in high school, shopping was torture. I didn’t know how to dress my shape and I didn’t have much sense of fashion. Still, one of my favorite