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A Letter To Our Singers
by Sandy Siegel Miller I don’t know about you, but I love surprises – good surprises. In these days of COVID-19, I feel like most of the surprises lately have been bad. And then here came all of you, and the dream that Jon and I had of a virtual...
Finding Peace in the Pandemic
Now that it's up on YouTube, I thought it might be helpful to tell the story of my latest song. I don't know about you, but it has been a challenge for me to find inner stillness and repose lately. I find myself getting more physically tired than usual; there are...
Paying Attention, Part 1: Walking the Dogs
Almost every afternoon, sometime before sunset, I have the privilege of taking our two English Cocker Spaniels to the park. They are littermates (brothers, I call them) named Higgins and Moseley, 6 years old. Taking them to the park is one of the favorite things in my...
Old Dog, New Tricks
by Sandy Siegel Miller I write this morning, our 4th day of COVID-19 shelter in place, and in the background, Jonathan is on our first-ever Evanston Sounds Good Choir “Zoom coffee hour”! There’s a lively conversation among the 25 participants, including their...
Connecting Our Hearts
by Sandy Siegel Miller Like many of you, in the past week or so, my days have been dominated, in one way or another, by the coronavirus. My Sounds Good/Good Memories work life changed significantly when we made the difficult decision to cancel rehearsals and focus on...
Our Choirs in the News
The Episcopal Diocese of Chicago has a magazine called Thrive. The most recent issue featured a superbly written article by Lu Stanton León about our beloved Sandy Siegel Miller, program director of the Good Memories Choir. In addition to featuring Sandy, the article...