Opal Reflections
Perspectives through Prose, Poetry and Photography
Tag: Berkshire Choral Festival
A Musician’s Notebook: Making a Rainbow
This is a beautiful and special place. Each summer, a prep school campus of rolling, green hills, clear mountain air, and rippling streams, nestled at the foot of Mt. Everett in Sheffield Massachusetts, becomes a backdrop to artistic achievement and expression. Although I’ve been participating… Continue Reading “A Musician’s Notebook: Making a Rainbow”
Weekly Photo Challenge: Letters
This series of photographs is posted in response to the prompt “letters“. Upon first glance, these two photos, are a welcome banner and a logo on a cap. For me, though, when I look at these photos, I am instantly transported to the mountains… Continue Reading “Weekly Photo Challenge: Letters”
On Miracles
🎵🎵🎵 The same old butterflies returned to her stomach and her pulse quickened with uncertainty, as she turned into the familiar road that led to her mountain retreat. Her friends and acquaintances from prior years had opted for other weeks, other programs, other Directors.… Continue Reading “On Miracles”
Dona Nobis Pacem
🌾🌾🌾 🌾🌾🌾 Whitman, Poet penning poems: War poems Williams, Composer setting words to music: Dona Nobis Pacem. Artistic genius, both united inevitably in performance. I sing through tears, their requiem for fallen Father and Son. 🌾🌾🌾 Trifecta Challenge Week 75: a thirty-three word “free-write”… Continue Reading “Dona Nobis Pacem”
Why “BCIJo”?
To the uninitiated, this blog name may seem illegible and perhaps even irrelevant. But it isn’t either of these things. After having toyed with the idea of changing my blog name, I realized that after these seven months of blogging, I do have an… Continue Reading “Why “BCIJo”?”
Lighthouse in the Mist, Cape May, NJ
Bandit
Festive View from the Pub, Peddler’s Village – Lahaska, PA.
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