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This weekend I am ‘flying home’ to Michigan, Land of Perpetual Snow and Ice.
The main reason for this trip is to hear my mother sing. Since as long as I can remember, she has been an amateur singer; she is an alto. Every year she and her group sing some sort of concert for Good Friday. They usually do some sort of Requiem or Mass or something apropos for Easter.This year she is sings Mozart’s Requiem. I really want to hear that, so this year I opted to fly home. They always sing in a Grosse Pointe Episcopalian church. It is quite a lovely setting; often this church’s grounds have daffodils. Daffodils are my favorite flowers; they herald spring more than lilies.
Besides hearing her sing, I will go to Ann Arbor. I will have lunch with my friend Eileen.
I want to go to Zingerman’s and order one of everything.
I will stop by and visit friends Dale and Martin. There, I may get to meet a celebrity – Frederica von Stade is going to be at their home! What I treat it would be to meet Ms. von Stade! She is one of my favorite singers. Dale says she is ‘Sunshine incarnate”.
On Saturday evening I am going to the Easter Vigil service at my old parish. I want to hear my old bell choir perform. I miss them. However, when they heard I was coming into town they asked me to fill in as a substitute. So I will be playing as well as visiting. Yikes! I will be playing some treble bells which I haven’t done before. The music was faxed last week.
On Easter Sunday I will go with my parents to her church (that makes for two services, so I will be most virtuous). Mother will have an Easter brunch for whatever brother wants to pop by to see me.
And then I fly home. And there is NOTHING PLANNED for some time after that. Hurrah.
Only possible trip may be a weekend in Palm Springs for doing nothing more than swimming and reading.
