Goodbye to 2020! Hello to better times! 🎵

Published: Thu, 12/24/20

Hello to All!

I hope you are safe and well.

https://www.barbaralewis.com/blog/2020/12/seasonss-greetings-from-barbara-lewis-dec-21-2020/

Hello dear Friends,

It's hard to know what to say at this strange time of our lives. What I can do is send you love. And express my great hope for a happier 2021. If you have had a very difficult 10 months - if you have lost someone close, I wrap my arms around you, from a distance. You are in my thoughts. I created a short Christmas & Holiday Greeting video.
You can view that greeting here.

Oddly enough, this has been a productive year for me. Caught inside the house most of the time, I was fortunate to have a way to continue expressing thoughts and ideas through music and more. So I created videos. Lots of them.

Here is one of them. It comes with a WARNING! It's long @ 26minutes! But it is a wonderful story - for both adults and children. If you have some downtime to spend with a magical story on your own or with a child...

The Story of Santapurrs.
"Santapurrs" (video & written story) is a tale for children, but a gift to Grandparents, from my good friend and writer, Bea Magnan. She wrote this beautiful story, inspired by my black cat, DD, as a way to offer something special to Grandparents who could read it with their grandchildren. In this video, I read the story taking on three different guises.

A friend who recently watched the video wrote:
"The story is magical and at the same time draws attention to significant issues such as female roles in life, and race...". You can download the story to read yourself, or watch me read it here: https://youtu.be/azZCxvMjEz8

(For cat lovers! Take a look at the end of the video where DD makes a special cameo appearance at 26:17.)

https://sixtyandme.com/learning-to-sing/

A very newsy web site called, Sixty and Me has published the first of my articles for them here: 8 Ways that singing Can Light up Your Life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjDAPRDJqpM&t=6s

And lastly, of the many songs I recorded this year, this one feels the most intimate, given the tone of these previous 10 months of a pandemic:
Happy Holidays!

Written by my great friend and theatre director, Anna Fuerstenberg, it's a bittersweet song with a few twists.

I hope you enjoy it. I wish you all a good Christmas and/or Happy Holidays! I hope we can all share in the vision of a more upbeat kind of energy for 2021.

Love to you,

Barbara