music in the air

Susan, Sarah and I attended a choir concert in Wilmington last night presented by the Lenoir Rhyne University Choir, of which my brother-in-law, Scott, is a member. Scott has a great bass voice and had several solos. The concert was wonderful and prompted my mind to wander back...

Although I recognized a few of the pieces, most of them were unknown to me. I began to think about all the hymns that I sang for so many years. I know a lot of words to a lot of hymns. That's how I was raised---singing the hymns at church. My mother was the choir director. I developed a mediocre tenor voice and used to love to sing in a SATB setting. The whole experience last night gave me a warm feeling of remembrance about my younger days of innocence. While I felt a little uncomfortable in this rather high-church setting, the music moved upon me as it always does. Even when I was singing the guilt-ridden, judgmental songs of my bluegrass gospel days, it was the music and harmonies that really attracted me.

I guess music sometimes has a way of transcending bad theology...or bad ideology...or bad whatever. "I dig music.....I'm on drugs"--Russell Hammond, Almost Famous

saturday

Enjoying R&R today--cigars and football. Because I live where I work, many times I find it difficult to resist the urge to look out the window to make sure everything is going fine out on the grounds. Today I will not look out the window.



Much...