AKBAY: CHAPTER 6 - THE RESURGENT YEARS (2013-2015)

Sleep repairs, regenerates, revitalizes…

For some, singing is in their skin. If they cannot sing, they watch the singing. Watching a performance is a good way to compensate. For a brief moment of imagination, the watcher becomes the performer one more time. As the words in the song Memory in the musicale Cats go:

“I can smile at the old days
I was beautiful then
I remember the time I knew what happiness was
Let the memory live again”

One evening after watching the Philippine Madrigal Singers, something tugged their innards, some voice called them out and some whiff of breeze led their way. Unable to control the magic, love heeded the voice, longing gave in to the calling and one day they were back in the ministry they truly loved to the gut. As the saying goes, one cannot put a good person ... a good choir ... down.

And so they accepted a mass slot at the National Book Store. Maybe the church was still a daunting, if not a haunting, challenge. Not totally ready yet, a bookstore chapel will do for a start. And start they did, initially, once a month, then twice a month ... wait, something is happening here, something is “a-brewin'”! 

The giant has awakened !!!