Today’s prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “sing.” Use it any way you’d like. Have fun!

“To sing is to pray twice.” The quote has been attributed to St. Augustine. If it weren’t for the music, I don’t think I’d go to church much. Fortunately, there’s music. and singing.

Would Rev. Dr. William Barber and his prayer partners have been arrested at the capitol Rotunda if they’d been singing (praying twice) instead of praying once? I bet they would have still been arrested. Rev. Barber is significantly disabled. And they arrested him. For praying. They were praying for mercy. And if that’s not bad enough, the capitol police removed all the press before the arrest so we couldn’t see it happen.

Writing about this gives me a some energy in spite of having been very lethargic for the past few days with some kind of sinus infection. It might be related to my root canal to be completed in about ten days. I even had chills one night, and I’m on an antibiotic. Progress is very slow.

But there’s hope. One thing that has helped is the sinus rinse that’s been recommended by multiple doctors which I finally got desperate enough to try, especially since a doctor gave me a sample. The other hope is that I found myself singing yesterday – my corny standby, the Sesame Street song, “Sunny Day, chasin’ the clouds away.” It’s supposed to be sweepin the clouds away, but I’ve always sung chasin.”

I went to look up the correct words, not that I’ll sing them correctly, and found this video of one of my favorite singer/songwriters singing to Oscar the Grouch.

James Taylor is a gentleman and a good sport. His song to Oscar reminds me that sometimes it’s okay to accept someone’s grouchiness instead of trying to change it. Even my own. Sometimes.

Oh! Here’s another song about singing from Enya, another favorite:

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