I was in my first year at Westminster Choir College and I was studying German. Our prof came in very bleary-eyed as she had been on the phone all night. She relayed many first hand accounts from both sides of the wall which somehow seemed more real than what we had seen on TV.
Leonard Bernstein died that fall so he couldn't conduct Elijah with the New York Philharmonic. It became Kurt Masur's first concert with the Phil. To me, singing Elijah with the conductor of Mendelssohn's Gevandhaus Orchestra who had turned down the invitation to be part of the new German government was an amazing privilege few of my much younger classmates could appreciate. It was an amazing time. Love will win. I just wish it didn't take so long so often.
Light one in your heart.... click on the photo to see a short video of burning velas.
Caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar. Traveller, there is no way. The way is made by walking. Antonio Machado
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“The Windsor report. It’s just a report. When did it become like the Bible? The Covenant. Why do we need another Covenant? We have the Baptismal Covenant. We have the Creeds. What else do we need?” Bishop Martín Barahona, former Primate of la Iglesia de la Región de Central América and Bishop of the Iglesia Anglicana Episcopal de El Salvador
I am a life-long Episcopalian, who has been ordained since 1993. I was rector of a family-size congregation from 1994-2008 and and ended three years as priest in partnership at a pastoral-size congregation in Vermont's fourth-largest city (Rutland) in 2011. Now I am vicar of a tiny congregation in the Green Mountains of Vermont. I am involved in church governance at the diocesan, church-wide and international Anglican levels. I was a member of a CREDO faculty team working with the clergy and lay leaders of l'Eglise Episcopale d'Haiti. I also try to go to El Salvador a few times a year and am officially Canon Missioner of the Anglican Episcopal Church of El Salvador (since 2004). In 2007, I finished the 1570 km Chemin de Saint Jacques/Camino de Santiago de Compostela. I greatly enjoy hiking in the Vermont Greens and NH Whites and reflect on those hikes. In 2010 I also completed walking the 273 mile-long Long Trail in the Green Mountains of Vermont... maybe next the Appalachian Trail? Lastly but most important, I am a cat-fanatic. (N.B. Whatever I post here does not reflect either the opinions of my congregation or of The Episcopal Church but merely those of an individual.)
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I was in my first year at Westminster Choir College and I was studying German. Our prof came in very bleary-eyed as she had been on the phone all night. She relayed many first hand accounts from both sides of the wall which somehow seemed more real than what we had seen on TV.
Leonard Bernstein died that fall so he couldn't conduct Elijah with the New York Philharmonic. It became Kurt Masur's first concert with the Phil. To me, singing Elijah with the conductor of Mendelssohn's Gevandhaus Orchestra who had turned down the invitation to be part of the new German government was an amazing privilege few of my much younger classmates could appreciate. It was an amazing time. Love will win. I just wish it didn't take so long so often.
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