This weekend is very special for my singing community, the Gaia Women of the Great Lakes Basin. We've brought one of our favorite composers/song directors, Norma Luccock, into town from Vancouver, British Columbia. Our weekend started tonight (Friday) at the Ojibway Nature Centre in Windsor, Ontario where Norma led us in song for two hours. Tomorrow (Saturday) we'll have the entire day with her at a church in the metro Detroit area.

I think this candid shot gives a pretty good sense of the energy and inspiration Norma brings to her music and to her work as a director. When I took it she was leading us in her song, "Peril and Promise," the lyrics of which are based on The Earth Charter.

And now I must go to bed. My alarm is set for 6:45 a.m. and it is going to go off all too soon!