All singers, whether you are a professional, hobbyist, or volunteer, will encounter times when creating music just won’t come easily for various reasons. The most obvious reason will be because of an emotional event that has happened to us or someone we know. This has happened a few times for me when asked to sing…
Author: The MuSinGer
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Experienced sacred choir member and cantor. Catholique.
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How a TV Show Gave Me Hope
I have just emerged from watching a beautiful television series which left me beaming with peace, happiness, hope, and optimism after every episode, but still somewhat tinged with sadness. That television can be the cause of such joy is a refreshing and rare experience in our time, as most of what we see on ‘the…
Knowing Me…Watching You?…A-ha
Okay, brace yourself, here comes a bit of a revelation: I love ABBA. And the above title got me singing ‘Knowing Me, Knowing You’. This song is about relationships – more on that later – but it also makes me wonder… how much do we really know ourselves? Do we spend so much time musing…
The Darkness
An intense personal darkness is with me. This has been triggered by several things, especially life and career transitions, but also because of the actions of some people around me. Despite my own advice about not allowing yourself to be affected, things just sometimes do get to you, and you just have to ride it…
To Give, and Give…and Give
So many times over the years I have repeated a pattern which has often, if not always, ended up in me feeling drained, depleted, and sometimes discarded. When you find yourself in a situation or in relationships with different people – be they personal or professional – and find that you are continuously giving of…
Planet of the Fakes
I like positive posts (writing them and reading other people’s), and this is part of the reason why I started The MuSinGer, but sometimes having a good rant feels… well… invigorating. Seriously though, taking the time to think about why we do what we do as humans and as a society can help us to…
Book review: ‘You Are Enough’ by Mandy Hale
A few posts ago I reviewed Mandy Hale’s book Beautiful Uncertainty. Her newest book, You Are Enough: Heartbreak, Healing, and Becoming Whole, is the subject of today’s post. If you have read Beautiful Uncertainty, you could not ask for a greater contrast between that book and this new one, and perhaps even wonder if this…
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