april6263 wrote:

ok for maksology....the blue shorts!!  got this from salicaminar on tumblr...

Maybe he and Meryl will be in a hotel pool tonight, and he can wear them for her! Of course, the pool would soon be boiling over.
 

april6263 wrote:

good night everybody ....it's been a blast tonight but i really need to head to bed....talk to everyone tomorrow 

Good night, April. It's always fun talking with you!
 

annieahoy wrote:

KeepOnSinging wrote:

annieahoy wrote:

Glad you are here, KOS. Are you preparing music for your church? Are you the choir director or organist or do you sing in the choir?

I have sung in church choirs.  My undergrad degree was in vocal performance and directing.  But I am also a soloist and this coming Sunday am singing in a church where a friend of mine is the music minister. Because I find this, "I Then Shall Live" (set to the main theme of "Finlandia", better known as "Be Still My Soul", a powerful song, I am spending a lot of time with it.  This coming October as a church I used to attend celebrates its 170th anniversary, I will be singing in the church choir I sang in as a choir member and soloist when my children were young.  I have been a choir director and musical director in the past, but am not currently directing a church choir unless it is to pinch hit for the director. This song is on You Tube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsq3aDNhZIQ  Thanks for asking.
 

 

I sang in the children's church choir, starting at age nine and then the adult choir. Then, when I married my first husband, he was the choir director and organist; I sang in the choir then, too, until I started having children (and we didn't have a church nursery) so I had to sit with them in church. 
 

Amazing all the different interests that connect us.   

Don't know who is still on -- KOS? and Gabriele?, but I'm signing off now. Loved talking with you and look forward to tomorrow. Love you.

JetmamaDiDi wrote:

april6263 wrote:

KeepOnSinging wrote:

Hi to everyone on board.  While I stay logged in, I have been on and off as I work on music for this coming Sunday.  So now I have several pages to read and will post along the way.

HI Kos

 
HI, KOS

Hi Jetmama,
I know that you are already logged off, but am waving hi in hopes that you see this tomorrow.  Was fascinated by your and Gunnerk's conversation about quilting.  I do not quilt.  Best I can do is sew hems, mend seams, and sew on buttons.  But I do love beautiful quilts, and I loved the musical "Quilters."  My daughter played a supporting lead role in this show when she was in college.  I was so taken with the depth of the dialogue that I ended out going every night of the ten days that it was performed.  It reminded me that in 1977 at the beginning of our family's journey dealing with the mental illness of a father and husband, my mom insisted that my husband and I take a four day vacation to Berea, Kentucky where I saw a magnificent display of quilts from throughout Kentucky and the United States.  I looked at quilts and quilting with different eyes after that.  

Each gorgeous quilt was different.  And as I watched this musical ten nights in a row in 1992, the closing lines from Sarah, the main character described the quilt making process and described what I believe was at least part of what St. Paul meant when he said that we were "to work out our own salvation with fear and trembling" and it reminded (what a tame word) me of seeing those magnificent quilts in Berea, Kentucky in 1977.  
    The musical is about pioneer women traveling west and the grief and joy and very difficult decisions they have to make.  These are among the closing lines.

     Sarah:  "And He showed me a river of pure water of life, clear as crystal proceeding out of the throne of God and the Lamb."
     Daughters:  "And on either side of the river there was a Tree of Life....., and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations....."
      Sarah:   "You can't always change things.  Sometimes you don't have no control over the way things go.  Hail ruins the crop or the fire burns you out.  And then you're given just so much to work with in a life, and you have to do the best you can with what you got.  The materials is passed on to you or is all you can afford to buy....that's just what's given to you.  Your fate.  But the way you put them together is your business. You can put them together in any order you like.  Piecing is orderly."

So I thank you and Gunnerk for bringing these memories to the front of my mind.  I was even able to find these lines from "Quilters", lines that I had tucked away over twenty years ago. 

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