by Michelle Tocher | Apr 28, 2022
A few days ago, I started humming a tune. It wanted words, and so I started singing, “What on earth am I meant to do?” The song had an ancient, mournful spirit, as if were a lost hope looking for light during these troubled times. I stood up from my chair and walked...
by Michelle Tocher | Apr 20, 2021
“Stillness Rising” is a meditative song that takes us into a quiet place to consider what we might hear from the Earth with the rising of stillness. Stillness Rising by Michelle Tocher...
by Michelle Tocher | Jan 12, 2021
Over the holiday, I rediscovered “Down in Yon Forest,” a mysterious old ballad that I performed at the Toronto Storytelling Festival many years ago. I stood alone on stage and sang it in a childlike a cappella voice, imagining it to be sung by an absolute...
by Michelle Tocher | Apr 18, 2020
I’ve been having a recurring image of us sailing away from the harbor of the world as we knew it. Some of us are reaching back, wondering how to recover the security we had before. Others are groping in the fog to find hopeful possibilities. Then there are the...
by Michelle Tocher | Sep 20, 2019
I’ve recorded a little impromptu talk here (with an equally impromptu demonstration) of how I’ve been working with poetry lately and crossing the bridge from speech to song. The lines I’m demonstrating come from a poem by St. Teresa of Avila. I also make reference to...
