It’s late…and I’m tired…but I guess I gotta talk!
Well, tonight was one of those nights…the kind that don’t happen all too often…Easter Vigil at church…all 3 1/2 hours of it. I sang two solos…one at about 8 p.m. and the last at about 11 p.m….gotta love that…and lots of stuff in between. I’m still getting over the sinus infection gunk that everyone has had, so my voice is not in all of it’s glory yet, but I did okay. My goal going in (knowing that there was no way I was going to be in perfect voice) was just to have fun…to enjoy what I was doing. That was the advice I got from a friend…which I appreciate…you know who you are and I wuv you! And I made people cry…what more could you want? No not because it was bad, but because it touched them…I think the greatest thing is when you know that you touched someone so deeply with something, whether it be words, or music, or art or whatever…that their emotions spilled out…the first time it ever happened…making people cry when I sang…it was like this unbelievable thing…here I am doing what I love to do…and it touches someone else. There is a power in that that you can’t understand unless you have felt it. There was a quote I read recently that said something like…you have nothing to do with the talent you have…it’s what you do with it that you are in charge of…wish I could remember the exact words because it was very cool…I’ll have to find it again. Anyway, while it is true that I nurture my gift, it’s very true that I have nothing to do with having that gift in the first place…just like I have nothing to do with the color of my eyes or how tall I am…I was just made that way…but…what I do with that gift…well that is totally under my control. I love to sing…I think if I lost that ability…it would be the hardest thing I would ever have to face…because even if I lost everyone and everything in the world…if I still had my music…somehow there would still be hope in me…okay…I’m going to stop the philosophical rambling and get some sleep! More singing tomorrow, and even more important directing children to share THEIR music…I have nothing to do with having my gift, but I have everything to do with how I share it…directly or indirectly…what was that old song? I’d like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony? Okay, I’ll save that one for tomorrow…night…I’m out.
Comment by syndromes
March 31, 2002 @ 1:18 am
Aren’t these damn blogs lovely? You get to rant and rave about little things that you’d otherwise never say to a person. Nutty eh? I for one dig hearing em ;)