Remember me?
Yes, it has been a few days since I checked in, hasn’t it? I can’t believe it is already Thursday, when it feels like just yesterday I posted a Feel Good Friday video!
My week has been both great and as stressful as it could be. Let’s focus on the great, shall we?
Monday evening, Smiley took me over to Bicentennial Mall and showed me all kinds of helpful hits with my new bike. Stuff about how the gears work, shifting gears on inclines, tips like leaning in to your turns, learning to coast in your turns, and some rules of the road and biking etiquette. It was cool and I learned a lot! I have some great friends who will take time out of their busy schedules to help me get going on my bicycle. I’ll say it again…I met these friends through blogging. The Nashville and Tennessee blogging community is such a good group.
Tuesday evening I was reunited with some of my old pals from Belmont University after having not seen many of them for 20 years! The unifying factor in this reunion was our friend, John Robinson, who is a missionary in the Celtic-speaking countries, based in Wales. He is home on furlough, and wanted to meet up with folks, so we decided why not have an impromptu reunion!
Many of us had sang together back in the day. In fact, here’s a picture of one of the Belmont Chorale’s many configurations…
Of course, I’m the one with the big blonde hair…it was the 80s after all, and no I was not a fan of Flock of Seagulls but a couple of guys may have been.
Nice dresses, huh? I think my mom made this one. Did you mom? Please advise.
Poor mom had to make so many of these choir dresses throughout my school years…most of them were not the most fashionable frocks in the world. That was not her fault, she didn’t pick out the styles, but she faithfully and wonderfully sewed them for me and others, too.
Here’s an article about when we toured Eastern Europe in 1989 — one of the best trips I have ever, ever been on.
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We all thoroughly enjoyed seeing each other after all these years. You know…I am completely honest in saying that we have all aged quite gracefully and it truly felt like 20 years vanished the moment we laid eyes on each other.
I’m not one of those people who dreads reunions, I love them, so I was completely in my element. It was a wonderful time.
The rest of the week has been stressful and crappy.
I said I was going to focus on the good.
Hence, I shall end this post with this thought…
“We are, each of us, angels with only one wing, and we can only fly embracing each other.”
– Luciano Decrescenzo
Filed under: Blogger Buddies, Friends, Fun Stuff, Music, Things That Inspire Me, Yipee! | Tagged: Belmont Chorale, Belmont University, reunion
Thank God for your hair, Ginge. I’m always able to pick you out of a crowd.
COOL
who made the rule about hideous choir dresses? Remember the one Mama Farver had us buy that fell apart at the seams in the washing machine?
The 80’s was the only time it was ever even sort of hard to determine Ginger’s big blonde hairdo from the other big blonde hairdos.
Hey, thanks for the nice comment on Delmer’s blog. I sang in an a cappella group and a vocal ensemble back in the day. Your pics bring back memories!
Ahem…Yeah, I’m still here and so is the homemade dress, (still hanging right where you left it)! Hmmm…I thought I made a FEW fashionable things way back then!
If you remember, someone in the Ukraine liked the Black Jacket just fine, didn’t they?
Oh, I wondered what you were doing Monday while we were dodging the Bad weather bands coming from “Fay!”
BTW, I’m looking at your old wrecked Bicycle out behind the Barbecue Pit right now! (It has had it)! Remember your bad wreck out on the side street when you were really young? Just thought I’d remind you of that, too, but had better go before I think of More!!!
Bye for now….MOM