This Month’s Newsletter

This month’s issue includes a description of our most recent Pre-Cinco de Mayo Mingle (Ole!), and spotlights how our choir members are supporting one of our partner choirs.  The newsletter also provides an invitation to our annual Spring Concert, “Be Encouraged,” that will take place on June 20^th.  And check out our latest “MoHa Pop Quiz.”  The answer may surprise you.

Please continue to spread the word about Mosaic Harmony, seek concert opportunities, and invite others to be a part of this wonderful and wondrous, supportive community choir.  Make Us One!

Read newsletter: May Newsletter

Hello, Friends of Mosaic Harmony!

If All You Ever Do

Springtime. The air smells fresh and clean after a cool shower. The flora and fauna awaken, beginning their life cycle again. Bees dart from blossom to bloom; the birds build nests and find worms for their young, and plants and trees stretch and grow to cover our lawns, gardens, and parks. There is motion and a sense of purpose everywhere. Every thing seems to be accomplishing something.

After a cold, dark, and stormy winter, we, too, are pulled to start, to finish, to accomplish something, anything. The season urges us to get things done. Even our vocabulary reflects the push to move quickly forward. We “spring into action,” we “spring clean,” we “spring forward.” The expectations creep up on us: wash away the film of green-yellow pollen, step outside and exercise more, trade the heavy coats for lighter jackets. Like the bees, we flit from task to task, landing briefly before zigzagging in another direction.

We look at ourselves, both inside and out – and we go down the proverbial rabbit hole – microscoping our purpose, our achievements, our goals, asking ourselves if we are doing all we can or should do. It’s exhausting.

Perhaps, instead of getting caught in the cycle of the “should’ve, could’ve, would’ves,” we consider these words from Zanna Keithley, author of “This Is How You Find Your Way.”

“When you’re hard on yourself because you think you should be doing or completing or achieving more, remember this: if all you do in this life is stay true to yourself, create meaningful connections, give people a safe place to land, cultivate your unique gifts, and offer your wholehearted presence to every new experience that finds you – you’re doing so much more than you’ll ever realize. And if all you ever do is have one honest conversation each day. If all you ever do is show one person that they’re truly seen. If all you ever do is make someone laugh. If all you ever do is remain brave and open and curious and kind. If all you ever do is honor your beating heart. If all you ever do is sit with your pain and give yourself compassion and heal and keep healing over and over again. And if all you ever do is lean deeper into grace. If all you ever do is offer love and acceptance in rooms where it feels like there is none– then, I promise, you are doing so much more than you think.“

Keithley gently and expertly reminds us of the value in what we do each day – the difference we make and how much we accomplish, often without even realizing it. True success, she suggests, lies in the meaningful, valuable, and precious things we do for ourselves and for others. Everything else is simply a grace note.

Read more: May Newsletter