a day in the life of a bowhead

tonight was the best night.

Christ Church Cathedral - Nashville, TN

it was peaceful, enlightening, music-filled, relaxing and a plethora of phrases. i had heard of the cathedral in nashville having a community service every first friday. tonight was the first night baby girl and i went. it was meaningful to me on several levels. first of all, it was musically amazing. a gorgeous mix of blues and light jazz, so spiritual and uplifting – and when the liturgical dancer began, the tears just flowed. i found it funny the first service we went to, the preacher at my church was doing the story-telling. he is a nationally known storyteller and attends these services regularly, so i was not really surprised. i just found it ironic that i was going for a new experience, only to hear my own preacher.

the whole service was beautiful, the whole experience.

another reason this time was so meaningful to me is my T is episcopal and it brought back thoughts of our attending services together in houston, in san diego, with our daughters and each other. not long ago we had a moment together. a friend of ours was having a major family crisis and i realized we had never really prayed together, just us. so tentatively, i asked, ‘could we…?’

my T blesses me each and every day. this night, she blessed me beyond any words i could express to you.

anyway, after the service had ended, baby girl and i went for sushi to this little place downtown that has really good service and an amazing sushi bar, it is also reasonably priced. as usual, it was good food and good conversation between my truly unique daughter. we dont often get nights out like this and i love the idea of a monthly outing with her like this – although, i do see this happening more often than just for first fridays. in fact, we are going to get our animals blessed in about a month – she is so excited about that.

on the way back to suburbia, i engaged in conversation with my T and really did not want this night to end yet, so we went to barnes and noble and both got lost in the books. i got one i cannot wait to read. it is about reclaiming the strong, positive karma that was orginally associated with the word ‘cunt’. in fact, that is the title _cunt_. i look forward to this bit of reading. i also found another book i am dying to read, although it is very ‘legalistic’ in its verbage. baby girl found a book she wants, but it is the fifth in a series we have (although not the fifth), so we bartered she could get it after she has read the others. madeline l’engle has always been one of my favourite authors and this is a book i was not aware of, i cannot wait to read the series with her.

of course, a trip to the bookstore is not complete without either coffee or ice cream. so we went for ice cream. we shared a cone of cheesecake ice cream and i got some coffee ice cream to bring home. as we approached our van, baby girl says, ‘i know its raining and we haven’t been home, but it’s been a really nice night.’

i couldn’t have said it better myself. i am truly blessed.

and i look forward to finishing this and continuing wonderful conversation with my T.