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) |
|---|---|---|
| Cielito Lindo | Marie Houde | |
| Commitment | ||
| David Francey | David Francey | |
| Exuberance is Beauty | Michael Hurley | |
| Healing Journey | Nicola Oddy Heathe | Anne Mortifee |
| How Long? | Doug Forde | |
| Johnny | Martin Luther King Jr. | |
| A Nurturing Song | Colleen LaHaise | Alan Cohen |
| Sense of a Goose? | Marie Houde | |
| Time Management | Ron Wilkinson | |
| Walden Pond | H. D. Thoran | |
| Quote From, "A Return to Love" | Margaret Sutherland | Marianne Williamson |
| Notes to Myself | Bill Hatt | Hugh Prather |
| The Basket | Ruth Morrow | |
| Viva La Difference | Ted Snider | Ted Snider |
| Joining Together | Wendy Workman | |
| What's Important | ||
| Recipe For Living | Louise Bark | |
| What is Success? | Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| Unknown Title | Colleen LaHaisse | |
| Verily, I say, 'tis what it's all about | Craig Jones | Jeff Brechlin |
| Attitude | Louise Bark | Charles Swindoll |
| There's a Change A-Comin' | Gord McDiarmid | |
| Letting Go | Kathy Coulson | |
| Rhythm & Genes | Anne Chiareli | Bronwen Wallace |
| Words and Song | Martin Kandler | E. Harburg |
| The Wonder of it All | Elaine Brown | Ralph Marston |
| Music As Therapy | Sherry Aylesworth | Sarah Ban Breathnach |
| Priceless | Linda Williams-Erdahl | |
| Always SING! | Kathy Reinke | |
| Wendy - in memory of Bill Peruniak | Wendy Stewart | |
| Buttprints in the Sand | Elaine Brown | Sam Glen |
| Music: An Ode | Craig Jones | Algernon Charles Swinburne |
| Warriors of the Rainbow | ||
| Did I Miss Anything? | Diane Dowling | Tom Wayman |
| One Voice | John Rosseel | Ruth Moody |
| Grandma's Apron | Elaine Brown | |
| It's The World We live In | Joyce Dendy | |
| Vajra Song | Henry Clarke | Ven. Gendun Rinpoche of the Buddhist tradition |
| Forrest Gump | Kat Hatt | |
| The Paradox of Choice | Louise Mallory | From an interview with Barry Schwartz |
| Risk | Linda Williams-Erdahl | |
| A Prayer for the World | Barb Perry | Rabbi Harold S. Kushner |
| Holes | Diane Dowling | Taken from the Ontario Farmer, Feb 10, 2004 |
| Spin and Counter Spin | Gerry Gregory | Jon Contorines |
| The Night Spirit And The Dawn Air | Henry Clarke | Thomas Merton, Trappist Monk & Mystic |
| Don't Quit | Dorval Card | |
| Poem by Native American Healer | Colleen LaHaise | |
| Connections are Made Slowly | Valerie Colgan | |
| 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 (SCW) |
| A Celtic Blessing | Sue Lyon | O'Donohue, John "Eternal Echos." p 143. |
| The Miracle of a Brother's Song (sequel added) |
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 |
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