FAMILY REUNION

I spent tonight with my family. No, not my family of origin…but the family I’ve created for myself. Tonight was the first rehearsal of the spring season for the Magic City Choral Society. I’ll never, ever be able to fully express just how much this amazing group of men means to me. I have never been a part of an organization that has touched me deeply on so many levels. While our focus is music, the sense of community we build with one another and the deep friendships we establish make Tuesday nights the highlight of the week for a great many of us.

To think that just less than five months ago, I didn’t know any of these people who are now among my closest and dearest friends. To think that I was terrified to walk into that first rehearsal blows my mind. Now, a Tuesday night is just not the same without being with the men I love to laugh and sing and share my life with. The beautiful thing is that my friends who knew me before joining the choir see a changed man in me-for the better.

Here’s my confession: I’ve grown more in the last five months as a person, more socially and more musically than I have at any point in the last thirty-five years of life. I’m incredibly, overwhelmingly blessed. And, beyond that, I’m proud to say I’m part of such an amazing and talented group of men, my brothers in the truest sense of the word.