Thursday, February 12, 2009

Recession Worries or Fun and Singing?

So, in waiting for a google chat to start up, I wonder about the worries many of us have these days. I am job hunting, and trying to find a new career/job/work and thinking about the future of the individual in the work environment. Are we all going to be entrepreneurs? Trying to build new teams with new people every time we start a new project? So, I could be thinking sober thoughts about serious subjects.

Instead, I am smiling about the fabulously funny and amazing singers I just watched in the local high school choir show, "And Then There Were Nuns". For a couple of joyful hours, almost a thousand people put aside all extraneous headaches, and spent a lot of time listening to beautiful rich voices, young and old, soloists and enthusiastic groups acting and singing in such exuberance. Everyone on stage just sang with all their heart, and we the audience cheered and whistled and clapped and laughed. I am so thrilled that they can be humorous - sometimes slapstick - sometimes shtick - in very broad silly skits - and we can all immerse ourselves in fun Broadway show tunes and 200 outrageous nun costumes.

What a great joy to sit with old friends and youngsters growing up, all enjoying singing and laughing together. The best!