“My music teacher offered twittering madrigals and something about how, in Italy, in Italy, the oranges hang on the tree. He treated me - the humiliation of it - as a soprano.These, by contrast, are the six elements of a Sacred Harp alto: rage, darkness, motherhood, earth, malice, and sex. Once you feel it, you can always do it. You know where to go for it, though it will cost you.” KnowsFeelsEarthSexDarknessTeacherTreeCostElementsSixSacredMotherhoodRageTreatedContrastHumiliationOrangeMaliceHarpsSopranosMusic Teacher Book:The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd Source: The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd
“When I speak in Christian terms or Buddhist terms I'm simply selecting for the moment a dialect. Christian words for me represent the comforting vocabulary of the place I came from hometown voices saying more than the language itself can convey about how welcome and safe I am what the expectations are and where to find food. Buddhist words come from another dialect from the people over the mountain. I've become pretty fluent in Buddhist it helps me to see my home country differently but it will never be speech I can feel completely at home in.” PeopleFeelsI CanCountryMomentsHelpingHomeChristianSpeakLanguageVoiceTermSafeMountainSpeechExpectationsWelcomeBuddhistHelp MeVocabularyComfortingHometownDialectFluentHome Country Author:Mary Rose O'Reilley