Evening

and I have to admit, with all my talk of singing, I sing because I love to sing. I'm not a great singer, though I'm getting better. In the one choir, I'm probably the weakest singer, but I add to the overall volume and I can carry a tune, generally stay on pitch and can hit some fairly high notes, but I'm not doing any solos. The other choir, I do get to do them if I want to, and again, the voice lessons helped tremendously. I have more control over volume, more volume in general, and, hello, I can sing vibrato, I just never did before. (And I kinda' like singing without it.)

I was thinking about Roger Ebert earlier. He was a good man, in the best sense of that word. There was this quote that the news used about him earlier, from his memoirs:

“‘Kindness covers all of my political beliefs,” he wrote, at the end of his memoirs. “No need to spell them out. I believe that if, at the end, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do. To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn’t always know this and am happy I lived long enough to find it out.”

I think he nailed it. Boa noite.