2001-05-18 - 12:02 a.m. Most of my search-engine referrals are spawned by people looking up poems or feminine hygiene products. (Sometimes the two even intersect - cf. Lucille Clifton's wishes for sons.) Occasionally I get a visit for "vintage peignoir" or "seafood salad." My most amusing hit of the week, however, has been "bad Unitarians." It would have been especially appropriate earlier tonight, when I was contemplating skipping choir practice. I'm glad I went, though. There's a piece our director wrote called "A Single Tear" in memory of "the martyrs of the American Civil Rights Movement" that features a lovely, spine-chilling ending - the choir softly sings the words "burning, burning" over and over again while a soprano soloist sings "we shall overcome" high above the chords - a song that I've heard dozens of times, but seems to me a new song entirely when I hear Susan's voice soar out above the murmur: We shall overcome some day. Also, the director handed out music to another Ysaye M. Barnwell song called "Wanting Memories," to perform the day before Memorial Day. I hadn't even planned to attend that service, but the song is too cool, and the sermon looks promising, and I figure Dichroic and T. could very well use that morning to themselves anyway... I think on the things that made me feel wonderful when I was young,
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