Tea for the Tillerman

I didn't know just how happy singing makes me. I knew I missed it, and that if I didn't find some kind of way to be singing again that there would be some void in me. It does something different for me than playing violin does. For me, singing is all about community, the people I'm with, singing in a group. Violin is something I do by myself, and for myself, almost exclusively. When I was in art class in 7th grade, we were asked to do some sort of project on what made us feel like our best selves, or something to that affect. I immediately thought of violin, and running. I love sprinting. The feeling of taking everything you have and powering through it as fast as you can and leaving everything or nothing behind. I feel the same way when I play violin well. I pour whatever it is I'm feeling into Mozart or Bach and what comes out is just for me, good or bad. I sing because it joins me to people and because I love it. I play violin because I need to.