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Impromptu
by lostwingsxoxo
( 28, Female )
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Weekend
03-04-13 02:57 PM
One of my Marfan friends that I met on Facebook is having heart surgery. I don't really know him at all, but he was one of the first people I met who had Marfan Syndrome, too. I hope he pulls through. He seems to be in such good spirits and he's communicating a lot of love through his brother who is posting for him. It's really scary!
Speaking of hearts... Jarrett and I have officially gone grocery shopping and are stocked up and ready to follow more of a Mediterranean diet. We are having an Italian Salmon Bread Salad tonight, and stuffed eggplant tomorrow. I have some skewers with cherry tomatoes, fresh basil, and a little mozzarella with olive oil as a snack today. I have been easing into eating raw tomatoes, and eating this kind of snack is definitely a step forward to being a tomato person :P We got a ton of vegetables, red wine, greek yogurt, and we already eat whole grains and nuts. Jarrett is kind of starting at a different place vegetable wise, so his vegetable snack is celery and peanut butter. to start. I also have popcorn he can pop over the stove with olive oil. He likes that. Just trying to keep him from eating out!
This weekend, the choir sang in two separate prisons. I have never been in a prison before, and it was a bit intimidating. Some of these people were in for sexual assault, and some for murdering their own children, among other crimes. It's really quite hard to describe what happened, but we sang for them, and they knew the songs, so they sang with.
Somewhere in the Bible it talks about how Jesus is being criticisized for hanging out with criminals. But he says, don't they need God all the more? Since they are so broken? And I could see in the people who had come to know Christ in prison that in their brokenness, they have received grace on a far deeper level than I. And consequently, their faith is so much more tangible and profound. They had fallen so low, and they had to be pulled up higher.
In the same sense, their music was more profound. They didn't just sing from shallow hearts. They were up, dancing, clapping, singing from the very depths of their soul.
I have performed with international soloists, professional symphony members, people from all over the world, In Brazil, in Gernmany, in Switzerland, even the rock band Kansas, and I have never seen music like this before. These other people can sure teach you about technique and breathing and how to refine your music. But these prisoners taught me about music itself. The pure, raw thing that swells up from your bones that you just can't learn in school.
In that sense, I think these were the best musicians I have ever made music with. And God is still providing me opportunities to learn and play and grow as a musician, in ways I didn't expect, but in the ways I desperately wanted.
Nevertheless, all the hours spent preparing for the trip and on the trip knocked me out, and my boss gave me the morning off. I spent my time cutting up vegetables and preparing easy snacks for the week so Jarrett can just go in there and grab what he wants easily. I also baked cookies! I want to keep our baked goods down to once a week, but the most important thing is to stop going out, so that means start stocking up my kitchen with food that Jarrett really enjoys.
Speaking of hearts... Jarrett and I have officially gone grocery shopping and are stocked up and ready to follow more of a Mediterranean diet. We are having an Italian Salmon Bread Salad tonight, and stuffed eggplant tomorrow. I have some skewers with cherry tomatoes, fresh basil, and a little mozzarella with olive oil as a snack today. I have been easing into eating raw tomatoes, and eating this kind of snack is definitely a step forward to being a tomato person :P We got a ton of vegetables, red wine, greek yogurt, and we already eat whole grains and nuts. Jarrett is kind of starting at a different place vegetable wise, so his vegetable snack is celery and peanut butter. to start. I also have popcorn he can pop over the stove with olive oil. He likes that. Just trying to keep him from eating out!
This weekend, the choir sang in two separate prisons. I have never been in a prison before, and it was a bit intimidating. Some of these people were in for sexual assault, and some for murdering their own children, among other crimes. It's really quite hard to describe what happened, but we sang for them, and they knew the songs, so they sang with.
Somewhere in the Bible it talks about how Jesus is being criticisized for hanging out with criminals. But he says, don't they need God all the more? Since they are so broken? And I could see in the people who had come to know Christ in prison that in their brokenness, they have received grace on a far deeper level than I. And consequently, their faith is so much more tangible and profound. They had fallen so low, and they had to be pulled up higher.
In the same sense, their music was more profound. They didn't just sing from shallow hearts. They were up, dancing, clapping, singing from the very depths of their soul.
I have performed with international soloists, professional symphony members, people from all over the world, In Brazil, in Gernmany, in Switzerland, even the rock band Kansas, and I have never seen music like this before. These other people can sure teach you about technique and breathing and how to refine your music. But these prisoners taught me about music itself. The pure, raw thing that swells up from your bones that you just can't learn in school.
In that sense, I think these were the best musicians I have ever made music with. And God is still providing me opportunities to learn and play and grow as a musician, in ways I didn't expect, but in the ways I desperately wanted.
Nevertheless, all the hours spent preparing for the trip and on the trip knocked me out, and my boss gave me the morning off. I spent my time cutting up vegetables and preparing easy snacks for the week so Jarrett can just go in there and grab what he wants easily. I also baked cookies! I want to keep our baked goods down to once a week, but the most important thing is to stop going out, so that means start stocking up my kitchen with food that Jarrett really enjoys.
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