Seven at Secular Singers

Yesterday, Secular Singers was held at my house. There were seven of us there: Steve N. and his wife and daughter, Marilyn C., Bea McC., and J and myself. We began with watching a video on playing the recorder. We used our new laptop computer to view the videos. The videos we watched were on YouTube. We learned how to play "Ode to Joy" from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. This is just a beginning. We intend to play recorders each time we get together (for the foreseeable future).

Then we moved to the piano and went through our songbook -- a looseleaf binder in which I have collected freethought songs from wherever I could find them. Most people stayed for four hours, but a lot of that time was spent in conversation.