Dear friends,

Thank you for your continued preparations of your hearts and minds and voices for our concert this weekend. I look forward to seeing you tomorrow. This is my first program with you, and I am learning a lot from our process-- including the reality of moving from our comfortable circle to our crowded choir loft tonight. It seemed harder for us to be connected and to just allow the music to sound. It seemed like we had to all work harder for less reward. My ears are telling me that I need to rearrange our sections into 'clumps' for seating, rather than some lines and some groups-- so you will have a new spot to find tomorrow evening. If you could please come a few minutes before 7:15, you can walk up into the chancel and find your spot. We will then warm up in the chapel, beginning at 7:15.

The seating change will help, I am confident of that-- however, we need to all trust the process we have engaged in-- the steps that have led us to where we are. We have to sing like we sang in the chapel-- not bigger or smaller, louder or softer-- now that we are in the sanctuary. We have to find the sacred, communicative space we've been discovering recently where the music can be FREE to sound. We have to remember never to push or press, but to share and soar!

I look forward to taking another exciting step together tomorrow night as we meet our instruments and hear the thrust of the story we have to tell.

Peace.

TT