2022 Life Logs, Day 344: Drizzly by Day, Concert by Tonight
Date: Saturday, December 10, 2022
Weather: Drizzly Rain and Chilly: High 41, Low 34 degrees F
Sunrise and Sunset: 6:59 am & 4:13 pm
Location: At Home in the Cottage, East Falmouth, MA
Chilly and drizzly makes for a nice day to stay inside and try to catch up on paperwork and photo editing. I am gloriously behind on both, but I did make some progress today. My math tells me we currently have 9 hours and 12 minutes of daylight. I guess that means 14 hours and 48 minutes of darkness. I can’t wait for Winter Solstice when minutes of daylight slowly starts to increase.
This evening Heather and I went out to dinner at Estia and took a few minutes to talk about Christmas. Then we went to a concert at the Falmouth Academy to hear the Sons of Serendip.
Heather just heard about the concert yesterday and mentioned she was going. The singer in the group used to be with Hyannis Sound, a professional a capella group that gathers in Hyannis each summer. Heather loved his voice when she heard him years ago and remembered his name. I decided to go with her and what a wonderful decision that was. Micah, the singer in the group of four musicians, described them as four millennials who happen to be Black. The musical quartet met while in graduate school at Boston University, completing degrees in Law, Cello Performance, Harp Performance, and Theology. The one who started out as a lawyer, plays the keyboard and writes music, and the singer, Micah, was the Theology major. They are dynamic and you can feel through their music their dedication to making this world a happier, more caring place. I didn’t think anyone could make me cry just listening to a rendition of Nat King Cole’s The Christmas song . . . Chestnuts roasting on an open fire . . . but tears came to eyes tonight when Micah sang it. The program was not just Christmas music, but the group’s rendition of Oh Holy Night was also wonderful. Micah introduced the song by saying that it is song of hope. He described it like seeing one candle lit in the darkness making just enough light to give hope. And even if just one more person joins with their lit candle, it gives more hope . . . which is much needed in today’s world. He also shared his favorite poem that was written in answer to the question, “What is the most important thing inscribed on a tombstone?” The poet’s answer was the dash between the date of birth and date of death in that the dash represents all the life in between. What a beautiful thought.
In the first half of the program, the group took suggestions from the audience for a song that they would put together for the second half of the program. They chose Hey Jude, one of my favorites. The encore song was Leonard Cohen’s legendary Hallelujah. Micah had said earlier in the evening that it was his favorite song to sing. So, he ended the evening with that. When I looked up the meaning of serendipity, “the occurrence and development of events by change in a happy or beneficial way”, I realized that Sons of Serendip is the perfect name for this group. I think everyone attending left looking at life in a more positive, loving way.
