In
late 2011, when I was beginning to anticipate retirement, I decided to work
with a life coach to stir up some options.
It was an exciting few months and my coach, Cathy Akiyama, strongly
encouraged me to start singing again.
“Sing every day for a month”, she advised, and so I decided to open
myself back up to that. Singing had
always been an important part of my life, but I had purposely shut it down for
two decades to attend to other commitments in life – running a laboratory,
attending to an ill husband, raising a child.
Anticipating retirement this summer, I auditioned for this Gilbert &
Sullivan operetta, being produced at the Dance Palace in Point Reyes Station,
as way not only of dipping my toe back into music making, but also as a way of
meeting members of this West Marin community.
“Oh, rapture!” Am I ever having
fun!
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