{"id":2959,"date":"2014-01-31T16:41:52","date_gmt":"2014-02-01T00:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=2959"},"modified":"2014-01-31T16:41:59","modified_gmt":"2014-02-01T00:41:59","slug":"revived-at-sea-01302014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=2959","title":{"rendered":"Revived \u2013 At Sea \u2013 [01\/30\/2014]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"revived\"<\/a>I should probably point out that my voice has returned to me. That might be considered rather important after all. It was certainly important to me!<\/p>\n

A lot of people \u2013 particularly some of my coworkers on board \u2013 don\u2019t really understand that primal fear that hits me with total vocal loss. It\u2019s terrifying. It\u2019s like a dancer breaking an ankle, no matter how certain you are that it is<\/i> going to heal, that it is<\/i> going to get back to normal, you can\u2019t help but hear your mother\u2019s\u00a0 voice in your head<\/p>\n

Be careful with your voice Shaughnessy, take care of it, or one day you\u2019ll open your mouth and it won\u2019t be there.<\/i><\/p>\n

Singing isn\u2019t just something I do on occasion if people decide to ask me too, it\u2019s almost my daily therapy, and not being able to? Not the easiest thing in the world. I had no problem with not being able to speak \u2013 in fact I almost welcomed it because it prevented a lot of people coming to me with problems I couldn\u2019t solve because it would have taken me too long to write out the answers \u2013 but not being able to sing? Or even hum? When my belt voice is how I work through really bad days? Not good\u2026<\/p>\n

Anyway\u2026.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m supposed to be singing in the Radio Dinner Theatre that\u2019s coming up in a few weeks. Thankfully, I picked a chart that sits in my alto range, because my top sop range is still pretty weak (apparently I still have a sinus infection, loads of fun there). Much as was the case last year, it\u2019s a chart I\u2019ve never done before so I met with the pianist this afternoon in the midship piano lounge and, peering over his shoulder so I could follow the music \u2013 marked my way through it a few times to be sure I was even going to be able to pull it off. We weren\u2019t really sure you see, as it\u2019s a big band tune that has been transcribed into a single piano part (and I mean it was originally for a real<\/i> big band, the kind they haven\u2019t had on ships in a very very long time if ever) \u2013 but as usual, the fellow who does my transcriptions did a fantastic job. This is definitely one I\u2019ll be keeping in my repertoire.<\/p>\n

But moreover, it just felt so good to be working<\/i> again, even half<\/i> working. I slip into a different world when I sing, everything else just kind of\u2026disappears. And I very much needed that this morning.<\/p>\n

Now\u2026we\u2019ll just have to see how the actual show goes\u2026two more rehearsals to go\u2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I should probably point out that my voice has returned to me. That might be considered rather important after all. It was certainly important to me! A lot of people \u2013 particularly some of my coworkers on board \u2013 don\u2019t … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-below-the-waterline","category-grand-world-voyage-2014"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3GtNE-LJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2962,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959\/revisions\/2962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}