After my wife died, I joined a community choir. It gave me respite from my private grief | David Sornig

The article reflects on the author's experience joining a choir after the loss of a long-term partner, Toni. Initially feeling inadequate among other singers, the author encounters feelings of uncertainty while seeking reassurance in their own abilities. The pandemic had brought challenges but also a deeper love for Toni, which the author hoped to honor through music. Following a year of mourning, they found a renewed desire to create music, marking a significant step in their healing process.

I spent a year pupating in the void of it. And while that time of reconstitution certainly wasn't over, one of the certainties I'd arrived at was that I wanted to make music again.

By the time of the pandemic, we'd healed over the worst of it. Our bloom again into deep, constitutional loving was supercharged by the terrible illness that took hold of her two years later.

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