For some time now, I have been easing out of major activity with lactation
(not entirely successfully, I might add!).

One way of getting away was increasing my musical activities.  Tonight I
just returned from the final spring performance of the Whatcom Chorale, and
110+ voice group in which I sing first alto.  We concentrated on Handel for
our spring performance and di the four coronation anthems as well as the
Foundling Hospital Anthem--to lots of applause, I am happy to report.

The lyrics of one of the coronation pieces may interest you all.  It
generate a great deal of discussion among the different sections, to which
I added an explanation re: nurturance and what it means worldwide.

Here are the lyrics (imagine the basso's and tenors singing these words as
well as the sopranos and altos).

My heart is inditing
Kings' daughters
Upon thy right hand
Kings shall be thy nursing fathers (and queens thy nursing mothers)...

...with variations on these words but the theme being of nursing men as
well as women

I can't seem to escape references to nursing, be they referable to
breastfeeding or not!
Enjoy the summer (or winter!), everyone!

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"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly
disguised as impossible situations."
Kathleen G. Auerbach,PhD, IBCLC (Ferndale, WA USA) [log in to unmask]

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