Hallowell events

Yesterday evening we had a Hallowell rehearsal - always an uplifting experience. Our usual leaders, Mary Cay Brass and Peter Amidon, were away, so Fred Breunig and Becky Graeber led us. Becky brought a sonic ritual she had learned from Chloe Goodchild. It involved singing a syllable on a particular tone with the hands positioned for each of the seven Chakras: Sa (root), Re (Pelvis), Ga (Solar Plexus), Ma (Heart), Pa (Throat), Dha (Third Eye) and Ni (Crown). The tones essentially follow the major scale, though she said there are variations involving the various modes. More information at Chloe Goodchild's web site called The Naked Voice:   https://thenakedvoice.com/. 

Later today, Hallowell will sing at the 40th anniversary of the forming of Brattleboro Area Hospice, which I was personally a part of. That will be held at the Putney School Auditorium. Following that we have a Dummerston Choir rehearsal.

Sunday, I am leading the Dummerston Choir in the morning and then after lunch, a group of us from Hallowell are singing at a funeral for Bob Reuter's (a member of Hallowell) mother at Centre Church in Brattleboro. I knew Bob's dad, Ernest Reuter, going back to high school days when he was president of the National Pilgrim Fellowship. Life has so many threads!

 We checked our spring today after a pretty good rain - but it hadn't come up at all. Disappointing! We don't have to haul water, but we have to be careful in using it.