Creative Lakeside

     Writing a novel, revising it and getting it published are acts akin to climbing Mt. Everest… or at least El Capitán, where I believe they have big grizzlies enhancing the toil and danger.
     Two booksigning parties were celebrated in August, one by El Ojo del Lago's ex-columnist Irma Ashley for her novel, Beat the Drums for Tomorrow, and the other by our own editor Alejandro Grattan-Domínguez for his novel, Only Once in a Lifetime.
     Though it carries the title of Grattan's motion picture, this book, (Grattan's third), is a much fuller depiction, lively and colorful in his reader-friendly style.
Congratulations are indeed in order.
      With the energy of youth, The Houston Childrens Choir performed a gruelling schedule during their short stay at Lakeside. At their St. Andrew's concert they sang, among other beautiful numbers, "Lord of the Dance" and "The Lord's Prayer," which continues to haunt me at this writing much later. There is nothing like music, nothing else like sacred music, and brighter still is sacred music performed well by the pure voices of children.