Oct 9, 2020 | Singing and Self Blog
My (im)perfect offering This week Leonard Cohen’s Anthem has been resounding in my brain: “ring the bells that still can ring/forget your perfect offering/there’s a crack, a crack in everything/that’s how the light gets in”. I’ve...Oct 2, 2020 | Singing and Self Blog
Early morning sumach turning colour Sept. 2020 “Let beauty awake”, the title of one of the Songs of Travel by Ralph Vaughan Williams came to mind as I sat down to write… These days seem so full and there is so much to learn, to do, to adapt to. Where...Sep 25, 2020 | Singing and Self Blog
This has been an exhausting, exhilarating, infuriating, exciting, exasperating and thrilling past two weeks. We started back at the university, completely remotely, and trying out all kinds of new ways of teaching and learning, with mixed but mostly good results....Sep 11, 2020 | Singing and Self Blog
My new rhythm seems to be every two weeks now. I always think of writing every Thursday night, but some Thursdays it appears I am overwhelmed, distracted or just don’t seem to find the space for this. But today’s space belongs to other voices. Today was...Aug 28, 2020 | The Disowned (Singing) Self
Breathing the Air of Art: first post-COVID visit to the AGO, August 2020 Last week’s post examined the idea of an artist’s selfishness, and I’ve been thinking more about that since. The space we need to make art, to create, is largely a personal one,...Aug 21, 2020 | Singing and Self Blog
Apologies once again to my readers…somehow life seems to be interfering with my blogging discipline of late. I began this post last week and then promptly forgot. It’s a topic I’ve been ruminating on for a bit, because I think it affects many...