A Season for Songs

December, with its holidays of love and light, is anchored for me by the songs of the season. My favorite ritual is the Holiday Concert I coordinate at the Canterbury Children’s Center, a small, one-room schoolhouse for grades K-4. This year, the children memorized and sang songs in honor of Native Americans, whose culture they had been studying, Hannukah, Solstice and Christmas. Normally, we hold this concert at in the dark, a short hike down into snowy, luminaire-lit

woods. This year, it rained, so we held it indoors, which was beautiful and intimate.
With a halo of candlelight illuminating each precious face, the children become an angel choir, reminding us that innocence, trust and wonder reside in all of us.
May your holidays be filled with love and light and full of songs to open your heart.