Tag Archives: Rev. Micah Busey

NY Mysteries April 24, 2020

 

If you feel sorry for yourself, join the line. Then read Gabrielle Hamilton’s account of the life and temporary death of her delightful, unique, sophisticated, romantic little restaurant in the East Village, Prune.  Hamilton’s evocative essay is in the April 24 New York Times. I loved that place. Ever go into a restaurant and feel both at home and excited? That’s what Prune did for me. Why hadn’t I been there in years? Life, I guess. I can’t remember specific items on the original menu except for skate wing which was delicious. Going to the Prune website is like visiting a friend on her/his last legs. The photos of the beautiful, simply arranged food bring it all back. Sob.

 

 

 

A Stuyvesant Town Squirrel eating a muffin
Rev. Micah Busey on the corner of Thompson Street

 Henco Espag, Judson’s Musical Director posted this message on 3/27/20. Working with Henco is heavenly. Grab this opportunity. 

Hallooo Judson,

We are putting together a Judson Quarantine Artbook to feature creations inspired by our shared social distancing experience both for our virtual services and in a live in-person concert once we are all back together again.

Below is the website link to the contest and the full submission guidelines pasted in as well.  Please share this with everyone!!!!

We already received submissions within 10 minutes of posting.

Thank you!

Henco

https://www.judson.org/quarantine-artbook-contest

Graphic Lessons: What do a thirty-four-year old, a nine-year-old and an eighteen-year-old have in common? Murder. 

Millie Fitzgerald applies for a Windsor School teaching job, faints on a  dying man in the school kitchen, deals with a troubled nine-year-old and with the eighteen-year-old niece of the murdered man.

Graphic Lessons: Nine-year-old Dana is the only witness who overhears a person fighting with George Lopez, the soon to be stabbed Windsor School kitchen worker. Who can she tell? Her mother who  accuses her of lying? Her father who’s fled to Singapore? She tells Millie. 

Graphic Lessons: NYPD Detective Steve Kulchek is assigned the murder case at the prestigious Windsor School. What’s bugging him? His partner was stabbed. He feels remorse over screwing up an important case. His corrupt boss is a trustee of the Windsor School. His girlfriend married his boss. And his daughter quit college. 

NY Mysteries April 10, 2020 

How to deal with the Coronavirus Pandemic… Jokes? They trip across my email. There are lots of them and they’re funny. Alcohol? Drinking statistics are zooming.  At the Frick Collection  Xavier F. Salomon, the Frick’s Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator, discusses Giovanni Bellini’s St. Francis in the Desert, Saloman focuses on St. Francis’s love of nature enveloped by his religious beliefs. He recited Francis’s The Canticle of the Creatures.

All praise be yours, my Lord, through Sister Water,

so useful, humble, precious and pure.

All praise be yours, my Lord, through Brother Fire,

through whom you brighten up the night.

How beautiful is he, how cheerful!

Full of power and strength.

All praise be yours, my Lord, through our Sister

Mother Earth, who sustains us and governs us,

and produces various fruits with colored flowers

and herbs.

Curator Salomon compared the loveliness of the spring in  Bellini’s 1480 painting with the very beautiful, dangerous, unknown spring we 2020 New Yorkers are living through.

 Back to humor, a friend emailed this Passover email during the time of the Coronus Virus: Commemorating not getting killed by a plague during a plague that you hope you’re not being killed by is probably as Jewish as you can get.  

Let’s say good bye to John Prine with Rev. Micah Busey”s Tiny Prayer :

Thank you for telling us honest stories of ourselves, set to sweet melodies that allow them to sneak into our hearts, comforting us with universality, teasing our follies just enough to invite us to take ourselves a tad less seriously.

Amen

 Henco Espag, Judson’s Musical Director posted this message on 3/27/20. Working with Henco is heavenly. Grab this opportunity. 

Hallooo Judson,

We are putting together a Judson Quarantine Artbook to feature creations inspired by our shared social distancing experience both for our virtual services and in a live in-person concert once we are all back together again.

Below is the website link to the contest and the full submission guidelines pasted in as well.  Please share this with everyone!!!!

We already received submissions within 10 minutes of posting.

Thank you!

Henco

https://www.judson.org/quarantine-artbook-contest

Graphic Lessons: What do a thirty-four-year old, a nine-year-old and an eighteen-year-old have in common? Murder. 

Millie Fitzgerald applies for a Windsor School teaching job, faints on a  dying man in the school kitchen, deals with a troubled nine-year-old and with the eighteen-year-old niece of the murdered man.

Graphic Lessons: Nine-year-old Dana is the only witness who overhears a person fighting with George Lopez, the soon to be stabbed Windsor School kitchen worker. Who can she tell? Her mother who  accuses her of lying? Her father who’s fled to Singapore? She tells Millie. 

Graphic Lessons: NYPD Detective Steve Kulchek is assigned the murder case at the prestigious Windsor School. What’s bugging him? His partner was stabbed. He feels remorse over screwing up an important case. His corrupt boss is a trustee of the Windsor School. His girlfriend married his boss. And his daughter quit college. 

NYMysteries – April 20

Joyce DiDonato Master Classes Part 2  My friend and I had attended the Friday session. There was a soprano, Alexandra Nowakowski and a mezzo-soprano, Maya Amir, one countertenor, Keymon W. Murrah and one tenor, Aaron Crouch. They would not have been chosen for the Master Classes if they hadn’t had wonderful voices. Joyce DiDonato was very level headed and articulate about the tough and rewarding profession they’re pursuing. She nailed their individual foibles. One of the sopranos thought too much. One of the tenors was told that the last thing the world needed was an opera singer. What is needed is someone who interprets every part individually. We returned for the final session Sunday. It was thrilling to witness the confidence the artists had gained.  People flew in for the Master Classes. We sat with a German woman who tracked previous singers. Earlier, a woman from Quebec told me that she followed DiDonato. The singers were accompanied by the gifted pianists Justina Lee and Shannon McGinnis .

Joyce DiDonato Master Classes 2019: Justina Lee, Shannon McGinnis, Keymon W. Murrah, Alexandra Nowakowski, Maya Amir, Aaron Crouch, Joyce DiDonato

 

 

 

 

 

 

I received a blackmailing scam email earlier that day and was on paranoid alert. What an invasion of privacy!  My computer guy calmed me down. He’d heard it all before. I did not reply or answer the email. A picture was attached, supposedly of me whiling away the time watching porn. 

 

Rev. Micah Busey posted the following on Facebook: 

Reminder to Christians that Holy Week is actually about the government-sanctioned assassination of a queer migrant organizer, the collective trauma and resilience of an activist community on the margins, and the triumph of communal, cooperative, hopeful, resistant, persistent, radical love over racist, hateful, fear-filled empire.

Resurrection always was and still is political.

So there! A very Happy Easter and Passover!

 

 

Graphic Lessons: What do a thirty-four-year old, a nine-year-old and an eighteen-year-old have in common? Murder. 

Millie Fitzgerald applies for a private school teaching job, faints on a  dying man in the school kitchen, deals with a troubled nine-year-old and with the eighteen-year-old niece of the murdered man.

Graphic Lessons: Nine-year-old Dana is the only witness who overhears a person fighting with George Lopez, the soon to be stabbed Windsor School kitchen worker. Who can she tell? Her mother who never listens or accuses her of lying? Her father who’s started a new family in Singapore? She tells Millie. 

Graphic Lessons: NYPD Detective Steve Kulchek is assigned the murder case at the prestigious Windsor School. What’s bugging him? His partner being stabbed ? His hated boss, Captain Dick Holbrook, being a trustee of the Windsor School?  Losing his girlfriend to Holbrook?