A TIME TO REPAIR I typically look to laughter for solace, so at the end of last year, I wrote a song recounting my very practical, if somewhat obsessive attempts to make lemonade out of isolation. […]
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CALL FOR LEMONADE!!!!
CALL FOR LEMONADE!!!! Hey, everyone – share your Lemonade with the FAR-West community!! In the many months that we’ve been publishing our Lockdown Lemonade blog, so many have come forward to share the positive lessons learned by creating lemonade out of the lemons handed to all of us once we went into lockdown mode. The […]
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Reconstituted Lemonade “Now my question is, why are there always lessons? And what if we never learn them, do they return again? Is there magic that keeps us moving forward like a tide that pulls us shoreward? And will these lessons end?” –Severin Browne, Lessons With all his wisdom, our dear friend Severin probably never […]
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Lockdown Lemonade #38 by Penelope Salinger
While I Stayed Home, My Songs Went Traveling One of my most satisfying musical activities is singing at the bedsides of the dying, through the Threshold Choir, an international service organization whose motto is “kindness made audible.” We sing softly, a cappella, usually in trios. Of course, the pandemic eliminated bedside singing, as well as […]
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Learning to Love Lemons My first grandchild was born February 28, 2020, and my wife and I were booking plane tickets to go to Chicago to meet him. I’d scheduled myself off work for an entire month, but by the time we started making travel plans, the pandemic hit. We went into lockdown March 4. […]
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Catching Up While the World Was Slowing Down I have a friend who makes the BEST lemonade ever! Apparently, she tells me, there is some controversy about whether or not to use simple syrup – needing to heat a 1:1 ratio of sugar to water. But I do know, if you just add the sugar […]
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How You Survive a Pandemic When it rains — when the droplets bounce in the birdbath, off the pebble-strewn bed of pooling water, rippling outward in concentric circles, each drop disrupting the rings of its predecessor — and the cat watches from its perch on the paint-chipped dining room windowsill of the home we have […]
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So Far So Good The pandemic has been cruel to countless people. Compared with others I have no real complaints. My graphic business did go into a coma. But I think the pandemic is telling me to give up the ghost and retire. I have food and a roof over my head. My music life, […]
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I’m Not Dead Yet My first thought was, “I’m too old for this.” When I retired a few years ago and decided to become a full-time singer-songwriter, I had been out of the music scene for many years. I had to start all over again, doing open mics, and re-learning all my songs, many of […]
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60 to 0 Before the lockdowns, before the quarantine, before the stay-at-home orders and mask mandates, I knew I was burning out and reaching a point in my music career where I needed to stop and think. 2019 had been an incredible year: I went to FAI in February and all the regionals, traveling from […]
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