How MANY First Communions???
Let’s try this again!
This has to be the world’s most boring blog!
Of course, since no one seems to read it but me and my favorite spammers . . . so what?
This weekend is Pentecost and with it comes the pscyhological end of the choir season. There are churches where music directors keep soldiering on, since liturgical Ordinary Time is really anything but ordinary. But I say, “Stop the insanity!” We are only human and we all need a break – if not a life of indolence at least a break from the ordinary. It is a time when we can do those exotic things that normal people, with less insane work hours, can make time for more easily if they choose to . . . like “spend time together”, or “count daisies”.
Starting next week, the phone stops ringing, the e-mails stop coming, and folks withdraw from frenetic church activity. It is a time to catch up, look forward, and enjoy more evenings at home – for both myself and for them!
It’s also a time to revive a languishing blog and give some TLC to neglected projects and ideas.
Certainly the coming months will not be boring. The NPM (National Association Of Pastoral Musicians) Convention is here in Chicago this year and we will be there, promoting our CDs and websites and seeing old friends again. Being local this year I will be helping out with preparing for a few events like the Opening Plenum Address music, the Convention Eucharist Choir, apart from bringing our own youth choir and having two showcases ourselves. Look out for us if you are going – Exhibit Booth #119 – Kingsfold Music Productions.
Busy and off the streets as this will keep us, it is NOTHING compared to the insanity of the last few months. I’ve been working in this profession for a long time now – am I just turning into an old dude or are things just getting crazier. There has to be an easier way.
So I’ll say it in public (listen up, spammers!): I vow, this Summer, to work efficiently and proactively so that next Spring will not be as insane as this Spring. Advance prep is the name, moving past sharpening pencils is the game!
Next year in Jerusalem . . . a day early and less dollars short!
