For Wilshire Baptist Church
Monday night at Wilshire Winds rehearsal we were practicing a piece called “Consolation” by Noah D. Taylor, and director Shana Gaines stopped us and suggested we try something new: spread out in a large circle and play the piece while facing each other. She said it would help us hear who has the most important parts at different times, especially as the dynamics – the loudness and softness – changes, and it would help us play more in tune.
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“It’s Luka’s world, and we’re just living in it.”
The local sports anchor gushed on Sunday night as he described the NBA All-Star performance of Dallas Mavericks phenom Luka Doncic. There’s no arguing the kid has game like nothing we’ve seen lately, but I bristled at the notion that it’s all about him and we’re just spectators. And I don’t like any statement that might lead some to believe that unless they rise to Luka’s level, they’ll never be more than just another schlub watching life from the grandstands.
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Looking out the window on a February morning, daffodils are raising their yellow heads, purple irises are blooming at the corners of the porch, and dianthus decorate the flower beds with red and white polka dots. Even the dead brown lawn is decorated with tufts of green weeds. It’s beginning to look like spring, but this is a “false spring.” February is our coldest month in North Texas, and most likely we’ll see another freeze or two. Still, this preview of spring provides a promise of what is to come and what can be. So it is too with some people we meet.
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