New Year’s Eve, 2020
2020 was a rough year, but one that can give us hope for the years to come. We saw greater civic engagement and, amongst all the cynicism, a real feeling that government CAN be better in the new year, and in all that follow.
Month: December 2020
Christmas Eve, 2020.
The decorations went up early, but the preparations took longer. Were I not looking at a calendar, I would not know tomorrow was Christmas. It’s sneaking up on me for the first time in my ...
First Christmas
COVID-19 has made Stan Rogers’s ‘First Christmas’ a song for us all. As a part of my own meditation on not making it home this year, I’ve written a verse: She’s always thinking of how ...
Hearing Again, for the First Time.
I’ve spent the most incredible moments of my life are surrounded by sound. At St. Olaf, I was a part of a 450 voice choir. At an Albanian wedding, an older group of men singing ...