Sing-along Café 2024-11-14

Thank you for your patience. I'm late with this review.

I've been feeling a bit under the weather these past few days. I'm a little slow and generally out of sorts, not my usual self. This was already the case on Thursday evening, and so the theme was perfect. Our theme was Songs with Flying or Sailing, and escaping in music. So, I was taken out of my funk for a couple hours. Music is like that anyway, it can take you someplace else when you need to steal away from unhappiness or stress or boredom, ennui. Robin was saying that it's sometimes a struggle to come, to get out of the house to come to our singing night, but, once the music starts, her body relaxes and her spirit lifts, lightens and brightens. For sure, that's what I feel too.

I'm also lifted up and comforted by the easy and gentle kindness of the lovely people that sing and talk and sip tea and share my banana bread, or whatever I happen to have, on Thursday nights. The Fellowship Room at Trinity is homey-comfortable and warm. It's always a lovely evening in lovely company.

The theme of flying and sailing ended up including taking a train and being lifted up On Eagle's Wings. We'll definitely do this theme again. I keep thinking of songs to add to the list.

Here's a sample of the songs we sang and listened to:

Sailing by Christopher Cross
Sailing Away by Chris de Burgh
Come Sail Away by Styx
Come Fly With Me by Michael Bublé
Jet Airliner by the Steve Miller Band
Leaving on a Jet Plane by John Denver
Up-Up and Away by the 5th Dimension
Wellerman by Nathan Evans (also the Kiffness Remix)
Puff, the Magic Dragon by Peter, Paul & Mary
Marrakesh Express by Crosby, Stills & Nash
Can't Fight this Feeling by REO Speedwagon
On Eagles Wings by Michael Crawford and by the York Region Community Choir
In the Bleak Midwinter by the York Region Community Choir

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