Singing Together is the Medicine we All Need Right Now.
Happy holidays. I wanted to write a short missive in support of singing carols with your fellows this season. I think if there is one societal tradition that our culture is truly missing out on, it’s singing with your loved ones in a room: tuning into each other’s wavelengths through sound, lifting your voices to create a collective shout out into the universe. It is pure magic and we are missing out. This is a tradition, like ceremonial dance, that cultures have joined in since people could make sound. It’s something that all animals do to communicate, to bond together. It is in our DNA. I would argue that singing together is actually a human need. And yet, in this time of extreme isolation and secular, technological bewilderment, it is a very rare moment that any of us join together in song. And yet our hearts are yearning for it. We don’t go to church, let alone sing there. We don’t gather around pianos at night and share songs. We don’t sing grace before our meals. We don’t s...
