weekend update

I hope you all enjoyed this gorgeous weekend. It was perfect out here in Detroit! We celebrated my little sister Celia's birthday Friday night with dinner with the fam and then we all went off to the Motor City Casino to attend the Metro Times Best of 2013 party. 

Saturday evening, we had a show at Bakers Keyboard Lounge! Bakers is the oldest Jazz club in the country and it is an honor to play in this space. 

And on Sunday, the church I grew up at and have been attending every Sunday for 22 years, St. Columban, closed. It's the place I met Bob, my Fiance and it's the place I learned to sing. I've also met life long friends who I will always cherish. It's a very difficult thing for me to rationalize how a thriving, financially independent community can be shut down and it's completely out of our control. It sure has generated some anger and sadness in the community and frustrates me that the Catholic church would rather shut down decades long communities than loosen their restrictions. We were shut down because in a few short years, there won't be a priest to lead our community. I have always been in favor of allowing priests to marry, allowing women to be priests or allowing Deacons to run a parish, but Rome won't allow any of these things, so instead, they close churches. As always, I try to be positive in this blog space of mine that I've created, but at times do feel that I need to express certain frustrations and this is one I'll be trying to reconcile for years to come.

I sure will miss this place.

iz