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So. I just got back from my church gig that Mr. Seible got me at his church. It was an Interfaith Pride Service. Which is ironic, because I had just been upset terribly a couple days before by the heretofore unbeknownst bigotry of the world (yes, I am sheltered). I'd been in an on-and-off depression thinking about how ignorant, narrowminded and proud of it a lot of the world is, and how it affects (and opresses) the rest of us. The fact that there is real, unthinkng, unquestioning hate in the world had just dawned on me in a personal sense (again, in a different way than the rather numbingly shocking first one). So then. I was at Mr. Seible's purple church, in a choir robe with a rainbow ribbon, singing for their service, and moved despite the tremendous cheesiness nearly to tears several times, because it was so reassuring to know that something is being done, that there are places where nobody cares and love is just love. The readings were from Jewish, Christian and Islamic texts, and the music was by us, a gospel choir, a lesbian soloist, and the Gay Men's Chorus small ensemble, and the responsive readings were completely inclusive. Apparently it was a little overwhelmingly liberal for Julia, but it came at a perfect time for me, struggling with the reality of worldwide unfairness. The speaker was a priest from the Diocese of New Jersey, and he started with some ironic statements, quotes from verses that people assume they hear: "For God so loved the Heterosexuals..." and so on. And then he explained that Jesus didn't say any of it. I can't explain it, but what he said went way beyond religion (of which I am not in favor, generaly) and beyond politics, and just kind of reminded us all that whether or not we agree with anyone, we can still love them.
So. I am cheesed out for the weekend, but I think I needed it.
Before this so revelatory service, we went and sang at Roger's. He got new books. Oh, man did he get new books. He has five copies of a collection of ALL of Palestrina's Masses! AAH! We went through a couple of them. Oh, how I love Palestrina. And then we had hamburgers. We showed them the Lakme that we're so impressed with, and they were duly impressed... Oh, we did leave early to get me to my gig, and were late anyway, but on the way, on the freeway, it was very cool... Completely clear coming back from Roger's house, and then you coud see this big mass of gray over downtown, and it was so weird... It got closer and closer, and you could see lightning, but there was still no rain over us, clear as could be; and then this sheet of gray fog seemed to divide the road right at a sign dividing the HOV to 610. It was rain. Completely straight curtain of rain, with clear air on one side and finger-sized pounding raindrops on the other. Very strange. But cool. It was like 50 billion acorns suddenly fell on the car, the noise it made when we crossed the line.
So. I am cheesed out for the weekend, but I think I needed it.
Before this so revelatory service, we went and sang at Roger's. He got new books. Oh, man did he get new books. He has five copies of a collection of ALL of Palestrina's Masses! AAH! We went through a couple of them. Oh, how I love Palestrina. And then we had hamburgers. We showed them the Lakme that we're so impressed with, and they were duly impressed... Oh, we did leave early to get me to my gig, and were late anyway, but on the way, on the freeway, it was very cool... Completely clear coming back from Roger's house, and then you coud see this big mass of gray over downtown, and it was so weird... It got closer and closer, and you could see lightning, but there was still no rain over us, clear as could be; and then this sheet of gray fog seemed to divide the road right at a sign dividing the HOV to 610. It was rain. Completely straight curtain of rain, with clear air on one side and finger-sized pounding raindrops on the other. Very strange. But cool. It was like 50 billion acorns suddenly fell on the car, the noise it made when we crossed the line.
