People say that we should relish each day, because it's a gift. However, many of our days just don't feel that way. Yesterday was a gift. I feel that way each time I get to spend my day in song. The quartet sang a full three hours in a coaching session with Jan. She gave us so much. The sound we produced was so joyous and full, and every ringing chord was like a wave of healing energy that pulsed through our bodies. No wonder your arm hairs stand up when music is grand! It feels like the whole body is resounding in kind.

After the coaching session, we went on to the mall, where we were hired to roam and sing for two hours. People seem so astounded when they hear live music in public. They stand and stare, or sometimes they scuttle by, too shy to stop, and keep turning their heads back, wondering and listening. The best moment was in Coldwater Creek, when we started to sing, the crowd at the cash register line spontaneously burst into applause. And as we sang the line "tiny tots with their eyes all aglow" in the Christmas Song, a woman pushed her stroller close, and the child's eyes were transfixed upon us. The grandmother cried.

Today, another gift, as we go into San Francisco for the Harley Toy Run. This year, there have been so many disasters in the world - tsunami, hurricanes, war. Sometimes it is hard for my heart to carry all those stories of loss. IPerhaps the reason for the holidays is to fill up the heart with compassion and love, so we can carry on another day, another year.

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