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Nice work on the structure. Looks good, and I love the idea of groups dissolving once a task is done. Very sane! Have a great meeting in SF, and if you need a musician in the future, let me know. I'd love to join you.
Blessings and Peace,
AH
Profile Information
- Your Parish
- Smokey Mary's
- Your parish website
- http://stmvirgin.org
- Your blog (if you have one)
- http://anahermusic.blogspot.com
- Your Anglican 'Species'
- Lay person, Vegetable
- Your 'Day Job'
- Musician
- What you do for fun and re-creation?
- I teach chanting as a spiritual practice, walk my dog, ride a bike, make music, wander aimlessly about, praying and singing (you might not notice right away).
- What do you see as some of the biggest challenges facing Anglicans today?
- To build supportive communities, especially with people of other faiths.
- What do you see as some of the biggest opportunities for Anglicans today?
- We already have everything we need to build supportive communities...
Many of you are aware of my music and my singing partnership with Ruth Cunningham, a member of The Anonymous 4 vocal quartet. Our second CD project, HARC: Blessed by Light
is now available here: www.cdbaby.com/cd/harc2 . If you prefer to download your tunes, go here: www.digstation.com/harc. It will be available on itunes as soon as they get it set up.
HARC: Blessed by Light contains beauty and fun, is great for tooling down the highway, for yoga, or for sitting meditation. There are chants, tunes, rounds, and mantras for your heart, for group singing, to usher you into heaven and enjoy the party upon your arrival, and to help you be your best self in the holiday traffic or right before you sleep. There are tunes that used to sound different somehow, tunes with other tunes buried inside them, and a bit of folk music thrown in for good measure. There are a few tunes from the new hymnal, Music by Heart. I think you'll like the variety, close harmonies, and instrumentation.
Thanks for your friendship, time, consideration and support.
Blessings and Peace,
Ana
http://www.ruthcunningham.com/ - Ruth's website with lots of cool links and clips
www.myspace.com/anahermusic - for more tunes and appearances!
http://www.anahermusic.blogspot.com/ - Ana's occasional writings on beauty, God, music, etc...
http://www.anahermusic.com/ - for links to all Ana's music, appearances, and her book The Sacred Art of Chant: Preparing to Practice
Ana Hernandez's Blog
Prayer and the Facts of Life
“Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s words usually seem worth reading but rarely move me to action. So why I felt as though suddenly struck by lightning upon reading these words the other night is beyond me. Truth be told, I wasn’t even reading Emerson at the time I stumbled across them. I was reading an essay about him by Mary Oliver in her book Long Life: Essays and other Writings. She went on to say “and suddenly that elite… Continue
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s words usually seem worth reading but rarely move me to action. So why I felt as though suddenly struck by lightning upon reading these words the other night is beyond me. Truth be told, I wasn’t even reading Emerson at the time I stumbled across them. I was reading an essay about him by Mary Oliver in her book Long Life: Essays and other Writings. She went on to say “and suddenly that elite… Continue
Posted on October 30, 2008 at 12:30pm —
One Way to Support a Sacred Musician
It may seem paradoxical that one of the most direct routes to silence and a peaceful state of mind is by making sound, but humming is the fastest way I know to achieve a deep meditative state. At the beginning of my prayer time, I sit on my cushion looking for silence and a little peace. Humming helps me to quiet my mind, so I can enter the realm of contemplation. Listening for the silence beyond the sound has helped me to be a little more mindful, and to keep my heart open in difficult situatio… Continue
Posted on June 16, 2008 at 7:00pm —
My Summer with Daddy King, By Gurdon Brewster
This week, I’ve been reading a book I found in the Episcopal Bookstore in Seattle (on my February trek out to Olympia to teach a workshop at St. John’s). I was surprised to see it there, and I hardly cracked it open until the day before yesterday, when I found it was stuck to my hand and wouldn’t let go (you'll see, and I won't even mention the recipes). I was surprised to see Gurdon's name on the book, because he was a mentor of mine when I lived in Ithaca, NY (1978-80). It seems he still is a… Continue
Posted on May 19, 2008 at 7:00pm —
A Prequel - "Where's the girl?!"
Greetings all,
This is a note about the not-so-recent past. Think of it as a prequel that doesn't require you to sit in a dark theater, or eat popcorn. Feel free to do those things, though, if you think it'll help. Feel free to skip this post and come back another time for something more to your liking... Hey, it could happen! Future posts will deal with life as I experience it (whoa!), and the beauty that is all around us, which lately means music, chanting workshops, recording sessions, 176 hi… Continue
This is a note about the not-so-recent past. Think of it as a prequel that doesn't require you to sit in a dark theater, or eat popcorn. Feel free to do those things, though, if you think it'll help. Feel free to skip this post and come back another time for something more to your liking... Hey, it could happen! Future posts will deal with life as I experience it (whoa!), and the beauty that is all around us, which lately means music, chanting workshops, recording sessions, 176 hi… Continue
Posted on May 18, 2008 at 6:30pm —
Comment Wall (8 comments)
- At 6:43am on October 15, 2008,
Dent Davidson said… - Yo Ana - it's been way too long! I do hope we will run into each other some time in the not too distant future. Good things happening all around - and bittersweet farewells to the good people here in the northwest.
Jim and the girls join me in sending love, hugs, licks and wags!
:-)
- At 7:53pm on October 14, 2008,
Liz Graves said… - love the motorcycle!
- At 5:03pm on September 3, 2008,
Bess Garrett said… - Hi Ana,
We met ages ago at RBTE - I used to own St Bede's Books in Baltimore. I'm glad to hear about your blog, can't wait to read it. I hope you are doing well
Bess
- At 2:19pm on August 25, 2008,
Bowie Snodgrass said… - Hi Ana, welcome to Anglimergence!
- At 10:17pm on August 23, 2008,
David James said… - Hello Good Friend, I'm off to Disneyland with my grandkids for the week, but first I'm stopping in Santa Barbara to see the friends I made on last year's sabbatical. Love you! D
- At 7:37pm on August 23, 2008,
Devon Anderson said… - Hey sister! good to see your face - I was just hearing about you from Sheryl Kujawa (I'm doing a DMin this fall at EDS) -- I don't know how your name came up, but she gave me some updates on your life. Peace - D
- At 10:22am on August 23, 2008,
Mary Grambsch said… - Hello Ana,
Croton Point was beautiful; lots 'o sunshine and fresh air. The cabins seem to be fairly assessable, which is great for my Honeybear. Ta! Mary g.
- At 1:48pm on August 17, 2008,
Becky Garrison said… - Welcome on board.
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