On the Occasion of Savitri D's Birthday. We get lots of thanks for her direction of the StopShopping Church performances, and - The News from the Natural World, the heart of Earth Riot.

She's our leader as we look for a new home for our chxrch, and embark on new music. This past Sunday, at our rehearsal, the choir sang the entire time. What I mean to say is that it was as if we sang one single song the entire two and a half hours, with Josh Kawan Nelson and Phillip Golub on the keyboards... we veered and soared and improvised, a sustained height of emotional outpouring. Savi, how to direct the planet's criers through many moods and smooth rides and then craziness, anger, love...