The open door lets the women’s singing waft into the cool evening.
Had someone passed by on the narrow, residential street in this college town, they may have slowed, stopped even. And listened in the dark to the two-round, a cappella harmony coming from the small, white house.
But they likely would not have recognized a tune or lyric. The songs are not for them.
They are for the dying.
The women inside make up Lawrence’s new Threshold Choir. The idea is for members to go in small groups to a hospice setting, hospital or home and sing softly at the bedsides of those near death.
At the recent rehearsal, member Anne Haehl tells the ... continue reading
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