living life with zest and cousins IG won’t let my photos be great so many photos didn’t make this photo dump God’s coffee and laughter somebody tell Tricia to call the front desk saw a waterfall from the highway and cried all the way through the most perfect of weddings on the most perfect of days

Teaching Choral Methods brings me nose-to-nose with the world and its children and the conditions that enable them to thrive. Always exploring, reading, and considering what or who is left out of the curriculum and how to remedy that. Adding a framework of care - for self and community - can help new teachers get through the grueling first years in the profession and stay in the profession for years to come. Working my way through these texts. Texts by @howhowkk, @sjpluger, @kasperthefriendlychoirdirector, and @beccalegit and @hibaqay (not all pictured) are my FAVS. REQUIRED READING post to come will highlight these incredible resources. #choralmethods #choirteacher #choirconductors #musiced #whatittakestoheal

random pictures because nothing can do it justice! so much learning, listening, enjoying the breezes, marveling at the softness of the sand, cursing and loving the rooster calls through the long nights, eating close to the earth as we’re meant to, knowing it is hard and difficult here and also more alive and more human, hearing stories and languages and singing old songs that are new to us, often learning more from the children than the elders, dancing gahu until our hips were sore and our hearts wide open, watching and hearing and tasting and feeling the extraordinary African diaspora alive around me: everything foreign and familiar all at once… the source goes on living and so must we gratitude upon gratitude for it all volta region, ghana 🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭 @howhowkk @bbqporkchop @beccalegit @prettymuch_rachel