The other day I was thinking about the special moments in my life. I was on my way to work and had been thinking about my dear friend Diana who is quite ill with cancer and I don't know how much longer she'll be around.
We had talked about our vicarious families - the children of friends and colleagues. Diana is an only child so she doesn't have the benefit of nieces and nephews as I do.
But I thought how some people put their wedding as the greatest day of their lives, or the births of children. I don't have that but I have accomplished a few significant moments - graduations, investiture as a Knight of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem.
The most profound moments have been the quiet ones. Like Elijah on the mountaintop - God came in a gentle whisper. For me many of those moments included music. A non-exhaustive list in no particular order:
- holding each of my newborn nieces and nephews
- some moments of prayer
- the Sanctus in the Mozart Requiem
- singing Handel's Messiah
- singing the Mahler 8th Symphony
- performing Ticheli's American Elegy with the Capitol Pride Symphonic Band
- the CPSB trip to Concord, New Hampshire
- a weekend at the Ciskanik summer home in Pennsylvania
- summer-rep theatre at WVU
- the moment as the curtain opened in Oliver! - a show I stage managed my senior year
- baking cookies with Nana
- listening to Ma tell family stories
- sitting atop a mountain in Germany
- standing near the Grotto in Lourdes
- lunch in Orvieto with Bart
- many evenings at home with George
- family walks in the woods with Uncle Stan and Uncle Gene
- floating on the river
- enjoying friends
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