I have come to fall in love with teaching in Catholic schools. What are YOU in love with?...

"Nothing is more practical than finding God, that is, than falling in love in a quite absolute, final way. What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination, will affect everything. It will decide what will get you out of bed in the morning, what you will do with your evenings, how you will spend your weekends, what you read, who you know, what breaks your heart, and what amazes you with joy and gratitude. Fall in love, stay in love, and it will decide everything." - Pedro Arrupe

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Good for the Soul

“Music is more logical than the human mind can comprehend: yet we can recognize it and surrender to it. We cannot comprehend music but music can comprehend us.”
- Peter Hiett

As the celebration of Catholic Schools' Week continued today, we had the opportunity to attend a performance held at school by three incredibly talented musicians skilled in the art of drumming. They played drum sets, but they also played drums from around the world, including Brazil, Western Africa, Northern Europe, New Orleans, and the Caribbean. (Some of the students even played some additional percussion instruments in a conga line!)


The greatest thing about it - for me, at least - was that the music and rhythms spoke right to my heart. I honestly can't even express how I felt. It was so uplifting - such a great middle of the day (on a Wednesday!) activity. I could have listened all day without becoming bored. Seriously.

As we conga-lined back to class, it hit me how hard it was going to be for the students to refocus after such an activity - especially for math. But, they managed to pull it together, and we learned all about graphs (and counted a bunch of change they brought in for the Pennies for Patients project - that's another story) before lunch.

So wonderful. So beautiful. I am still in awe. Music is amazing - it is beyond words yet it touches into the depths of our souls.

Wow.

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