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OftenBen  ·  3172 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: April 27, 2016

Probably shouldn't drink in church but oh well.

Tonight, and tomorrow night I'm performing my last concert of my first season with the new choir at the Rosary Cathedral in Toledo. It's got about 2 seconds of reverb through the hall, and combined with the Toledo Symphony we fill the space with thunder and lightning. I'm so glad that I made the decision to audition last summer, for all kinds of reasons. I'm honored that these men and women count me as a musical peer.

Mentally, well I'm learning a lot about myself right now. I'm learning how to kind of just be okay. Not perfect, not in crisis, just how to be okay.

I've also lost 2 lbs since Saturday :)





steve  ·  3172 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    combined with the Toledo Symphony we fill the space with thunder and lightning.

Knock em dead.

    I'm so glad that I made the decision to audition last summer, for all kinds of reasons.

I love that you did. When grown ups participate in "extra curriculars" like this... It reminds me to get busy living or get busy dying.

OftenBen  ·  3171 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I appreciate it man.

It's hard to feel bad when you're able to share in this kind of experience. The (Union) orchestra might disagree with me, but I think everybody who participated in this event has benefited.

user-inactivated  ·  3172 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Probably shouldn't drink in church but oh well.

Not Irish catholic, are you? :)

OftenBen  ·  3171 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I suspect if I was raised in that specific sect I'd still be religious.

user-inactivated  ·  3171 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Didn't work on me and my brothers, so its hard to say. Depends more on the community and how they react to the world at large, IMO. The Unitarians I've met never left the church, the few Jewish people i know never left etc.

OftenBen  ·  3170 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I actually went to a Unitarian church a few times in the past year because I've been trying to be get off my angry agnostic box and be more genuinely tolerant of religion/religious people.

I can definitely dig the Unitarian vibe a lot more than the sad, condemned sheep bah bah bah vibe I grew up in. I like their emphasis on being 'The religion of Jesus, not a religion about Jesus.'

Other than that, no christian sect has surprised me.