First Magnolia of the Season

I almost missed it, but I was looking out at the cold rain and suddenly there it was, hearty and bedraggled and brave.

We had a mid-morning date at the downtown movie theater—a showing of Verdi’s Nabucco by the Metropolitan Opera Live in HD. What a stunning piece of music! Oh how I wish I could sing! Not to be a Verdi soprano necessarily, but oh my just to manage a few notes and send them out into the universe! What must that feel like, to have those sounds come from your body, from inside your very self?