This morning I was leading the early morning Taize singing in the Sanctuary here at the Findhorn Foundation’s Cluny Hill College. This is a gathering of anyone who wants to join in singing and chanting for half an hour.
I boldly lead off with one chant, ‘Confitemini Domine’, getting the first note right, but the second one was way off — and could I get it right? No! And neither could anyone else! I was beginning to feel a bit hot and bothered. This is a lovely song when the four part harmonies come together, so I really wanted to do it. After a few false starts, eventually I heard someone singing the right tune, and picked it up from there — thank you, whoever you were!
Afterwards, someone (more...)
About Jane Duncan Rogers
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“I want to know what makes people tick!”
That was my passion at aged 16, and it’s been my passion every since. As a teenager, I was already fascinated by how people thought, why they thought what they did, and the resulting behaviour (not to mention my own!). Later, with a psychology degree and Diploma in HR Management under my belt, I’d become head of the HR department in a leading department store in London. But I still wasn’t satisfied, not in terms of my personal life, nor what I was learning about others. In the early 80’s, ripe for a change, I ended up in what I would now call a cult-type organization, where I certainly started learning and my personal development journey (more...)