I was browsing at Barnes and Noble the other day and happened upon a book entitled "The Book of Me". Promising title, yes? What it is, is a prompted memoir writing tool. Or, if you're me, a whole bunch of cool questions to blog about! So, starting in January some time, I will be writing a blog all about me. Because nothing I've ever written before has ever been about me, right? I know!
It looks as if some of the questions will require interviews with others so that I can accurately record my fascinating history. That's cool, I can do interviews. And this may actually give me something to talk about when I spend time with someone. It's hard to keep up my end of the conversation when I have little or no human contact outside of work...
I hope you join me in this fun journey back through my life. It could go to some very interesting places...some of which I'm not prepared to share just yet. But then again, it could be a jumping-off place for a lot of deep healing. Who knows? God does, that's for sure!
And, if the world really does end tomorrow, this will be the shortest almost memoir EVER! :)
I went to Leavenworth with my Sonus Boreal ladies and Stu (our Fearless Leader) on the weekend of Dec. 7-9. We stayed at a fabulous home in Cashmere, about 12 miles out of Leavenworth. We arrived in town and set up in the gazebo (mainstage) and started singing around 4:00 Friday afternoon. We sang straight through until 6:00. That's twice through the music, plus two songs!
We performed a few old classics: We Wish You a Merry Christmas, O Come All Ye Faithful, O Tannenbaum, Silent Night, the Christmas Song, Ding Dong Merrily on High, Carol of the Bells/Sing We Now of Christmas, and a medley of Happy Holidays and We Need a Little Christmas, that our arranger, Norm, titled "We Need a Happy Holiday". We also did a couple of not-so-familiar songs: We'll Dress the House, Es Ist Ein Ros Ent Sprungen (I don't even know how to spell this...German is not my thing!), Light the Legend (a Hannukah song), and The Star Still Shines - which is my new favorite Chirstmas song.
Saturday we carolled for an hour, then performed on stage for an hour, took a two hour break, and performed for another hour. Sunday was only an hour total.
It was a beautiful, snowy weekend and the town was lit up in it's usual holiday splendour.
What I found particularly wonderful about the weekend - apart from the fact that Josh and Beth and the babies and Shirl & Karl were there - is that 25 women spent 3 solid days in each other's company without one problem! For real! No arguments, no crankiness, no issues at all. And this with only 3 bathrooms for all of us! I love my choir!!!
That's all I know right now. May God bless you and keep you. May God make His face to shine upon you and be gracious to you. May God lift up His countenance upon you and give you peace. Numbers 6:24-26
Merry Christmas! I love you, one and all (especially YOU!).
