You’re shining and I can see you
Basking in the glow of support from my 123 Kickstarter backers. All I can do is smile and offer this chorus of gratitude: (a wee bit of Shawn Colvin’s “Diamond in the Rough” as sung into my iPhone in a luxuriously reverberant stairway)
a huge machine
I once had a tiny Russian voice teacher who liked to tell me, as she pushed her little fist into my belly, “The other girls, they can be lazy, but you, you have a huge machine, you cannot be lazy!” (I can still hear her insisting — insert your own favorite Russian accent here — [...]
Coming home to the land of love
We brought it on home and wrapped up the Kickstarter phase of my new album. Now it’s on to the next phases of this wonderful birthing process: finishing the recording, getting the CD itself together, sending goodies to all my Kickstarter backers, and having a CD release concert to benefit Berks Women in Crisis (May [...]
These are the words
With three weeks to go to meet my Kickstarter deadline and fund my new album “at the edge of the unknown,” I am sharing more here of what is emerging in the studio. Here is a first draft of “These are the words” (complete with me singing sharp in places ’cause that happens when I [...]
Let me hear you!
I want to share with you some of the new music on the album I’m incubating (and kickstarting): In the coming weeks, I’ll be posting a few “rough drafts” of different (very different) songs. “Hashmi’ini” is the first of these and the first opportunity for you to: have a taste of just what it is [...]
Birthing “at the edge of the unknown”
It’s time to birth a new album! Watch the video above to learn how you can help. Then go to my Kickstarter page to pledge your support. I have about a dozen or so songs that I’m in the midst of recording. Some are more in my Torah-inspired singer-songwriter vein (including “Gone Tarshisha”), others are [...]
Bringing our whole selves to At-one-ment
This year for Kol Nidre, I’ll be offering Libby Roderick’s healing anthem “How Could Anyone” as a starting point for bringing our whole selves to the work of teshuva — the return to wholeness. Here’s my version: We have tried finding and offering only our best, only our strengths, and that was good and important [...]
How can I keep from singing
As I head into the home stretch of preparations for Rosh HaShanah (the Jewish New Year) — the turkey and lamb roast are in the oven, the sermons are also cooking slowly, my head is filled with High Holy Day memories and melodies – I keep coming back to this song. I keep coming back [...]
Yah is my strength and my song….
As we approach Rosh HaShanah, it’s amazing to review everything I’ve been blessed to do this past year. First is my adaptation of Rabbi Shefa Gold’s Ozi v’zimrat Yah that I used with a variety of groups this summer — including patients at a local mental hospital — to help them find their way out [...]
