Here's another poem inspired by a prompt I gave in writing club. We were to write a new verse for Frosty the Snowman or a new chapter in his life. I had fun with it, and i hope you will, too ( Read more... )

To all who celebrate, and happy New Year to my friends who don't. I'm learning this for one of my choirs,and it's truly a prayer for peace. In this video, the composer is conducting in Belfast Cathedral. May we have peace and may we help to bring it!

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This is a song I wrote for the ARC giveaway contest - just for fun, since I don't want to actually keep the advance reading copy from anyone else. I hope it will actually play here! Here's the link:

I just checked - Jon, below, noted that the link didn't work for him, though it did for me on the library macbook. So, in case it doesn't work for ( Read more... )

This is passed on from eleanor X, who had posted the video to her own livejournal. It really is a terrific song; I can't get it out of my head, and the lyrics (in spite of a couple of infelicitous words like "puppetile" - why not "puppet-like" or simply "puppet's"?) are pretty astonishing. If you watch this, consider the relationship described ( Read more... )