Soul Food - An Open Voices Tradition
Each week at rehearsal, before the "serious stuff" starts, one of the members shares some "soul food" with the choir. This helps us move from the business (or busyness?) of daily life into a more focused awareness, it helps us to celebrate the creative forces of the universe and it helps us to come together in a unity of purpose. Every voice, conducting gesture or tinkling of the keyboard has been nourished by this soul food.
We have had some wonderful and moving Soul Food this term. Here is a collection of some of our many remarkable contributions. More will be added over time.
| Title | Contributor | Author (if known) |
|---|---|---|
| Don't Quit | Dorval Card | |
| Poem by Native American Healer | Colleen LaHaise | |
| Connections are Made Slowly | Valerie Colgan | Marge Piercy |
| Prayer for the New Year - 2006 | Dave Best | |
| Zen Sarcasm | John Rosseel | |
| How to Build Global Community | Barb Perry | The members of Syracuse Cultural Workers |
| A Celtic Blessing | Sue Lyon | Eternal Echos, by John O'Donahue, p 143, reprinted by Perennial 2002 (an imprint of HarperCollins publishers) First published in the USA |
| The Miracle of the Brother's Song | Henry Clarke | |
| Do You Know Any Crack(ed) Pots? | Joyce Dendy | |
| A Friend | Mike Olive | |
| In Flanders Fields | Claudette Lovelace | Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae (1872-1918) |
| Tommy's Tangerine Tree | Lorne Carmichael | Ruth Hilton Hatfield |
| A 23rd Psalm for Open Voices Caffeine-Addicts | Henry Clarke | Henry Clarke |
| Some Suggestions for Healthy Living | Henry Clarke | |
| Stress Management | Kathy Coulson | |
| The Original Do, Re, Mi | Kathy Sage | David Neff |
| My Paint Brush | Henry Clarke | Bettie B. Youngs |
| Resting Dreams | Henry Clarke | Joyce Rupp |
| A New Choir Season's Spiritual Resolutions | Henry Clarke | Adapted from the Wiccan Tradition |
| Installing Love it IS SO GOOD | Gerry | |
| Silence | Dave Best | Maharishi Mahesh Yogi |
| An Everyday Miracle | Dave Best | |
| Seven Blunders of the World that Lead to Violence | Linda Williams | Mahatma Ghandi (1869-1948) |
| Feeling Old? | Linda Wiliams | |
| "Common Voices" - It was Amazing | Marilyn Parks | |
| Mother Gone to Glory | Diane Hopkins-Rosseel, Shirley Wildebeest, Carla Burr | |
| Port Shoem | Tim Aylesworth | Speverent Rooner |
| Excerpt from The Prophet Faulkner | Jim Hill | Larry Levinger |
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