by Toni McNaron | Jan 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
At my church this past Sunday, the choir sang a powerful piece composed by Pavel Tschensnokoff, a Russian composer living between 1877 and 1944. The title is “Salvation Is Created” (1912) and the only words are “Salvation is created in the midst of...
by Toni McNaron | Jan 6, 2020 | Uncategorized
At 10:19 p.m. on December 21st, those of us living in Minnesota marked the exact Solstice moment–at that precise minute we made the magic planetary shift or turn so that the next day we would receive a tiny sliver more of sunlight. For four decades, it has been...
by Toni McNaron | Dec 10, 2019 | Uncategorized
No, I’m not referring to the Disney feminist remake of the story of the Snow Queen. I’m referring to another queen who actually is still alive–Queen Elizabeth II–and to the six-season Netflix special about her life and reign. “The...
by Toni McNaron | Nov 25, 2019 | Uncategorized
Some words delight me simply because of how they feel in my mouth as I voice them. Incunabula is one of those words. The repeated “u” makes my lips pucker, while “nabula” sounds like a word a wizard might utter to work magic or like some...
by Toni McNaron | Nov 2, 2019 | Uncategorized
A friend just sent me an article about Janis Joplin because a new biography is just out about her. She was a blazing comet on the rock music scene in the 1960’s, but, like all comets, vanished too quickly to be taken in fully. The new biography talks about how...
by Toni McNaron | Oct 19, 2019 | Uncategorized
If “Carla Hayden” is not a household name, I understand. And, if you don’t know a lot about our Librarian of Congress, I understand that as well. But in these days of dangerous mayhem and destructive hate speech, Ms. Hayden and her title give me...
