Quote for Today: Frederick Douglass
I have often been utterly astonished, since I came to the north, to find persons who could speak of the singing, among slaves, as evidence of their contentment and happiness. …
Quote for Today: Rosalind Fordham
Some tribal cultures believe that the act of creation takes place through music. They literally sing their homes, their villages and their valleys into existence. They keep them strong and …
Quote for Today: Brian Eno
When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self …
Globe-trotting Travel Series: Day 16
Today is the 16th day of our Globe-trotting Travel Series and it features a very famous performer from his home in London via the BBC One World: Together at Home …
Globe-trotting Travel Series #6: Skokstudio in Mentor, Ohio, USA
The sixth day of our Globe-trotting Travel Series brings us to Mentor, Ohio, USA, and features the phenomenal mezzo-soprano and teacher, Heidi Skok of Skokstudio. Never one to rest when …
A Healing Song: The Breathless Choir
Society encourages us to pursue marketable things at which we excel. Is there value in pursuits that challenge our weaknesses? The weeding and winnowing starts when we are very young. What was …
Quote for Today: Henry David Thoreau
There is some of the same fitness in a man’s building his own house that there is in a bird’s building its own nest. Who knows but if men constructed …
Quote for Today: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings. ―Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quote for Today: Wendell Berry
I loved the different voices all singing one song, the various tones and qualities, the passing lifts of feeling, rising up and going out forever. Old Man Profet, who was …
there are mermaids
This is a beautiful, poetic reblog from my friend Tony at t h i n g s + f l e s h. It really captures for me the essence …