Hey. It’s been a while. The last time I wrote was 6 years ago—since then I’ve been to college, Scotland, moved to DC, finished half of grad school, and revisited tour stops from ten years ago (New York City, Boston, Annapolis, Philadelphia). Finally, too, I’ve got the perspective to understand just how amazing the God’s Light choir experience is, and how my six years in choir shaped me. I’ve been chatting about it to my friends here, and one of my dear ones wrote back “What an absolutely wonderful experience for a teenager. It almost makes me wish my grands were Methodists!!!!!”
And oh, was I excited last week to learn that God’s Light would be stopping near me! See, there are people who commute into DC from Frederick, which means it’s kind of like calling Rome, GA, “Atlanta”. After a bit of surreptitious facebook research and cross-state grapevine via a text from Mom relaying what she “heard at the pool just now,” I determined when, how, and where to show up. (Gotta love it. No matter how far you go, you can never. escape.) I’ll be leaving work shortly to escape the worst of traffic on 270; you think traffic on 285 is bad (which it is), come drive round the Beltway any time between 12 midnight on a Sunday and 11:59pm Saturday. I plan to hang round downtown Frederick for a while, maybe find a bite of supper or a secondhand bookshop or a Goodwill to drop off the things in the back of my car (a chore I’ve put off for two weeks now).
Last I talked to Jeff a little after 1pm, they were somewhere near Hartford, CT, 6ish hours out. Happily, I’m not 🙂
All right. I’m so keen it’s hard to wait, and I’ll be off now. Will finish writing later tonight once I’ve seen everyone and have something to say beyond I’M SO KEEN.