Migrating

Loves, 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 Towanda's Window and/or FierceRev Remedies.

Enjoy!

Marschallin Monday: Distracted

I was gonna start a whole post about how could somebody please just stab Baron Ochs already and send him home, but I got distracted looking for appropriate imagery.

As in:

And:

And finally:

Can't Stop, Won't Stop

Weeping may endure for the night, but resistance comes in the morning. #cantstopwontstop #collectiveliberation

A photo posted by Anne Dunlap (@fiercerev) on Nov 9, 2016 at 8:45am PST

Poetry for Survival

At my other blog I have shared a couple of poems, yesterday and today, to help get us through this end-of-election anxiety about what's coming next:  "Gate A-4" by Naomi Shihab Nye, and "Beginners" by Denise Levertov.

Wherever you may be on this planet, I hope you find some solace, and maybe even some encouragement to keep going, from these poets' words.

May we all get free, someday.

Renee and Georgia

Favorite 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 here in this video are any indication, it will be gorgeous.  I hope a recording is forthcoming...anyone know?

Monday Marschallin: Classic Edition

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf.     

I like that glance, there.  Why do I get the feeling she's about to say, "I like the hat"? 

Marschallin Monday: Waiting Edition

Nothing clever to say here.  Other than, is it April yet?

Marschallin Monday: Upper Right Corner Edition

Because 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. 

 
Fleming/Graham, 2000 season.  Click on image for a bigger version.

Interview With Me

I shared at my other website that the Alumni Director at my seminary, the Iliff School of Theology, 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 read it here.  I talk about my work some, and also Dr. Vincent Harding, and my grandfather, and our family's 5 years in Kansas, among other things. Enjoy!

Road Trip Beautiful

I missed two Marschallin Mondays but that's cool, because I was working on a story (you can read it here), because yes, I am still obsessed with Carol.  Don't you wonder what happened on the road trip, the things we don't get to see?  Well I did, anyway.  Enjoy.

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.

I haven't written stories since I was a teenager.  Poetry, journaling of course but not stories.  It's an interesting thing to come back around to (full circle, if you will), and I find I enjoy it.  Sometimes my imagination for the world gets exhausted, and this helps. 

A little more beauty for you, that I discovered.

Hélène Grimaud is spectacular and mesmerizing in her performance of the Rachmaninov 2nd Piano Concerto.  I was supposed to writing but I kept watching her.  Really stunning.

And, a beautiful fanvid for Carol, set to "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face."

Marschallin Monday: Vacation Edition

Don't mind us, we'll be ignoring the larks and keeping the curtains closed, thank you very much.

Didonato and Schwanewilms.

Marschallin, um, Friday: Favorite Dress Edition

The Marschallin could wear this, no?  We'll just keep to ourselves what we imagine is causing this rather, um, delighted expression.

Non-Conforming, Mismatched, Maladjusted

I preached this Sunday (first time in a long time) and posted my sermon on my other site.  You can read it here.  It was good to be in the pulpit again!

Holding...Holding...

What I love about this is her total joy about what she's able to do.  Very cool.

Monday Marschallin on...Thursday?

The Marschallin is giving the eye to yours truly being too busy to remember to remember her on Monday. I will grovel accordingly, and pray for a gentler schedule in coming weeks.

Seriously?  You forgot about me?  How is that possible?