tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4691991640296212902024-02-18T19:43:27.704-07:00Towanda's WindowReflections on life in its fullness...Towandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04603182877386141853noreply@blogger.comBlogger510125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-469199164029621290.post-56358036875826644792017-03-05T21:22:00.004-07:002017-03-05T21:22:41.971-07:00MigratingLoves, I've shifted over to WordPress now, so this site will serve as an archive (there's good stuff here, look around!). New content will be at <a href="https://towandaswindow.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Towanda's Window</a> and/or <a href="http://fiercerevremedies/" target="_blank">FierceRev Remedies</a>.<br />
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<br />Towandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12031134281440449274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-469199164029621290.post-10793305248255580902016-11-01T14:37:00.001-06:002016-11-01T14:38:31.279-06:00Renee and GeorgiaFavorite singer, Favorite artist -- This sounds amazing: Composer Kevin Puts has written a piece for Renee Fleming based on the letters of Georgia O'Keeffe. Commissioned by the Eastman School of Music, it will be performed next week at Lincoln Center. If the bits that Puts plays <a href="https://www.facebook.com/KevinPutsMusic/videos/vb.285547561495053/1108210452562089/?type=2&theater" target="_blank">here in this video</a> are any indication, it will be gorgeous. I hope a recording is forthcoming...anyone know?<br />
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Towandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12031134281440449274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-469199164029621290.post-59142274159941837272016-10-10T10:00:00.000-06:002016-10-10T10:00:21.075-06:00Marschallin Monday: Waiting EditionNothing clever to say here. Other than, is it April yet?<br />
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<br />Towandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12031134281440449274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-469199164029621290.post-64757804680807424462016-10-03T09:20:00.001-06:002016-10-03T09:20:47.785-06:00Marschallin Monday: Upper Right Corner EditionBecause it's the upper right corner there that's all that really matters. "Octavian is the lover of the beautiful Marschallin." End of story, we wish. <br />
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Towandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12031134281440449274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-469199164029621290.post-26693744783996258732016-09-15T17:43:00.000-06:002016-09-15T18:31:29.993-06:00Interview With MeI shared at <a href="https://fiercerevremedies.com/2016/09/15/fiercerev-interviewed/" target="_blank">my other website</a> that the Alumni Director at my seminary, the <a data-mce-href="http://www.iliff.edu/" href="http://www.iliff.edu/" target="_blank">Iliff School of Theology</a>,
interviewed me a few weeks ago. I loved sitting down with her at our
kitchen table with herbal tea and just talking. She asked me great
questions, and I love that the interview she crafted used lots of quotes so you hear me as me. You can <a data-mce-href="https://iliffpeople.wordpress.com/2016/09/02/negro-spiritual-invokes-spiritual-practice-in-white-social-activist/" href="https://iliffpeople.wordpress.com/2016/09/02/negro-spiritual-invokes-spiritual-practice-in-white-social-activist/">read it here</a>. I talk about my work some, and also <a data-mce-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Harding" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Harding">Dr. Vincent Harding</a>, and my grandfather, and our family's 5 years in Kansas, among other things. Enjoy!Towandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12031134281440449274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-469199164029621290.post-60814220846455020412016-09-14T13:46:00.000-06:002016-09-14T18:16:39.338-06:00Road Trip Beautiful<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I missed two Marschallin Mondays but that's cool, because I was working on a story (<a href="http://archiveofourown.org/works/7970806" target="_blank">you can read it here</a>), because yes, I am still obsessed with <i><b>Carol</b></i>. Don't you wonder what happened on the road trip, the things we don't get to see? Well I did, anyway. Enjoy.<br>
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I think we all need beauty. This was a hard, heartbreaking summer if you care at all about the state of the world, and especially if you work at trying to make it better like I do. Writing like this was a respite, not an escape but rest and the opportunity to create, and be immersed in something beautiful at times when the world is so not beautiful. Sometimes that's opera (and my Marschallin) and other music, herbs, farmhanding, movies, sometimes, turns out, it's writing.<br>
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<br />Towandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12031134281440449274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-469199164029621290.post-50972727333297314942016-08-09T21:27:00.003-06:002016-08-09T21:27:45.882-06:00Non-Conforming, Mismatched, MaladjustedI preached this Sunday (first time in a long time) and posted my sermon on my other site. You can <a href="https://fiercerevremedies.com/2016/08/09/non-conforming-mismatched-maladjusted/" target="_blank">read it here</a>. It was good to be in the pulpit again!Towandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12031134281440449274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-469199164029621290.post-30287084373504830992016-08-05T09:25:00.001-06:002016-08-05T09:25:27.378-06:00Holding...Holding...What I love about this is her total joy about what she's able to do. Very cool.<br />
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We do love our Marschallins in red, don't we!<br />
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Catherine Carby and Cheryl Barker. I don't know them but it doesn't really matter? I believe it's from<a href="http://theoperacritic.com/tocreviews2.php?review=sn/2010/ausrosenk1010.htm" target="_blank"> this production</a>. Key quote: "It's hard to imagine anyone abandoning such a Marschallin."<br />
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Well, that's what I keep saying! #IChooseTheMarschallin <br />
Towandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12031134281440449274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-469199164029621290.post-23448390637114283102016-07-11T15:04:00.000-06:002016-07-11T15:04:03.722-06:00Marschallin Monday: Is it Monday? EditionIs it Monday? Sigh.<br />
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Basically, I want beauty, but the white supremacist capitalist heteropatriarchy AKA Baron Ochs won't STFU and get out already. So, I'm working on that. Hard. I do wish more Marschallins were involved but -- true story -- a baritone in a regional production of Tosca playing Scarpia reached out to see how he could help the cause. I kid you not. Scarpia in the service of justice? Yes please!<br />
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I don't know about you, but I totally imagine the Marschallin singing this to me in the middle of the night. Don't you? #IChooseTheMarschallin<br />
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Guess who has tickets to this production, the day before her birthday, 2017? That would be ME. Saved up some birthday money (my parents are amazing and are now responsible for me seeing Renee Fleming live, singing Strauss, TWICE) and I'm SO EXCITED. This will also be our first Met experience. I'll just be here swooning from now until then. So excited. SO EXCITED.<br />
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<br />Friends, I'm really proud to introduce to you my new website, <a href="https://fiercerevremedies.com/about/" target="_blank">FierceRev Remedies</a>, where I'll be writing about herbalism, freedom movement work, and where those intersect for me. This is an outgrowth of my vocational journey these last couple of years, including herbal studies, deepening pastoral justice work, farmwork, vocational discernment, and the project of healing and reclaiming my voice.<br />
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My first post is about my <a href="https://fiercerevremedies.com/2016/06/10/where-we-begin/" target="_blank">first herbal love</a>.<br />
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I’ve been drinking herbal infusion teas almost every day since then,
and have felt the herbs’ slow, deep, transformational work in my being.
But Rose was the first, the first to teach me that the herbs so want to
help us heal, help us be fierce for the work of liberation, help us
love on this earth and its creatures and each other. Rose was the first
who made me feel I might be a healer, along with being a pastor and an
activist. </blockquote>
Towanda's Window isn't going anywhere! (Although I may shift it to WordPress because Blogger is getting annoying). I'll still post more personal reflections (and white shirt fangirling!) here.<br />
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Maybe I'll write more about this sometime, but I went through a time where somebody worked *really* hard to silence my voice. That person almost succeeded. You can see that reflected in this blog by how my personal writing goes from fairly prolific to veryvery quiet, almost non-existent, as this person influenced my life (you can see that same prolific/outspoken to silent pattern in my personal Facebook posts as well). Maybe you noticed, if you've been reading here a long time. <br />
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Long story short: thank God I walked away from that! I'm so thankful for my cielo, my friends, my church, my healers, all of whom have walked through this with me and loved on me hard. The journey to healing has been deep, and long, at least long as it feels to me, which I guess what I want to really say is that you don't just recover from that, heal from that overnight. I've <i>gradually</i> come to write more here -- that <a href="http://towandasnewwindow.blogspot.com/2016/04/on-carol-representation-and-whiteness-1.html" target="_blank">tri-partite Carol posting</a> was a huge step! -- and now this new website feels enormous and important as I continue to heal.<br />
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I have stuff to say, y'all. And there is stuff that wants to be said through me. So, thanks for being here, and I hope you'll join me at my other hangout too. Peace.<br />
<br />Towandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12031134281440449274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-469199164029621290.post-34977639339155361732016-06-12T20:41:00.000-06:002016-06-12T20:47:18.593-06:00Marschallin Monday: Ja Ja<img alt="http://archives.metoperafamily.org/Imgs/Rosenkavalier0910.31.jpg" class="shrinkToFit" src="http://archives.metoperafamily.org/Imgs/Rosenkavalier0910.31.jpg" height="496" width="640" /><br />
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I was trying to read a detailed synopsis with annotated thematic references (<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Rosenkavalier-Knight-Overture-Opera-Guides/dp/0714544124/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1465785185&sr=1-1&keywords=strauss+der+rosenkavalier+guide">in this book</a>) while flying to New Jersey today, which was amazingly fascinating (the reading, not the flying). Until we hit nasty turbulence that made it impossible to do anything but try to breathe and not, well, you know.<br />
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So I breathed deeply, hummed overture/Act 1 opening scene themes in my head, because that's as far as I had gotten (which isn't really a bad place to pause...) and thought of this.<br />
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Travel messes with my perception of time (<i>die Zeit, die ist ein Sonderbar ding</i>...) and I think it's already Monday, even though it's late Sunday night, and so I'm posting this early. At any rate I'm at a conference all week so what not have a little early Marschallin?<br />
<br />Towandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12031134281440449274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-469199164029621290.post-57254828179436927252016-06-06T20:30:00.002-06:002016-06-06T20:30:50.745-06:00Marschallin MondayBack <a href="http://towandasnewwindow.blogspot.com/2016/05/marschallin-monday_30.html">again</a> with Joyce DiDonato and her Marschallin, Anne Schwanewilms. Joyce looks like she's having fun, no?<br />
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Towandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12031134281440449274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-469199164029621290.post-58437714134012565172016-06-06T14:54:00.000-06:002016-06-06T14:54:32.649-06:00Turning TablesEvery time I hear this song I want to send it to the very ex-friend *who needed it most* the day I walked, but refrain because if I never see them again it would be too soon. So there.<br />
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Next time, I'll be braver, I'll be my own savior (and already am).<br />
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(somewhere deep inside me, on good days, I hope this person is finding their way to healing. I do. But this human place in me is just as real.) <br />
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