timeless princess

It's 10:27 pm and I am tired. a good kind of tired says one of my friends. I've had a fairly productive week and started running again. :)

Today, I recorded some music and went to teach some students pieces for a singing competition.
One thing I am starting to discover about working with different singers is that you can learn a lot about someone's personality and demeanor through their voices and understanding about music. They each take a different path finding their "voice" or understanding of the concept. Singing, music making, learning how to make music an artform in your own experience...it all seems so abstract much like fluffy purple elephants on a picnic or something like that. I guess that is the beautiful thing about music and art. You know, well fed elephants and all.

After practice, I hung out in the choir room and played some songs on the piano. One particular piece, "So this is love" from Cinderella, a princess song. As I was singing, one of my students came by to listen and she started to sing along with me too. It's like one of those scenes from a musical, where all is right in the world when the characters suddenly dabble into music and sing away. They shut themselves out from the world and become a prince or princess in their own right.

I was thinking about Disney princesses and it seems these days, the princess movies are becoming far and few...however...the idea of wanting to be a princess...I believe this doesn't ever die really. Life just kind of cycles around like that which is an interesting idea in itself. The ironies, joy, struggle, fights, awkward situations, sadness, victories...all battling to find out the truth and make sense of it. Redemption really.

I guess if anything, what I most enjoy about teaching my students as well as myself is that we have every right to sing, find personal truth, that unique inner "voice" inside all of us and not feel the least bit guilty because of it.

Love,
C