music
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Gift of Music
While in college, I briefly considered a music major. I spent most of my free time in the music building, between various ensembles and lessons, so most people thought I was already was. I’d even spoken to the department head about it, a woman I was close to, anyway, for being the band director. But… Continue reading
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St. Hildegard
The local classical station has been showcasing female composers, a show I’ve caught several times the past week in late-night drives home. After one particularly moving piece of music, the host returned to say, “That music is nine hundred years old!” Which brought me to learn of Hildegard von Bingen, a 12th-century Benedictine nun that… Continue reading
And they said to him, “Inquire of God, we pray thee, that we may know whether the journey on which we are setting out will succeed.”
And the priest said to them, “Go in peace. The journey on which you go is under the eye of the LORD.”
—Judges 18:5–6