There’s one full circle we’ve drawn in the past years of Kanuga. Kids are automatically in the Friday night talent show – the daytime programs do group acts for every age group. So when my sisters and I were little, we were in it every year, in our 3 different age groups. My father often did a parody of some sort, which the adults loved and the kids acted like they understood. More recently, we had a series of years where we didn’t attend the Friday show because there were no kids of age. But now the younger generation is part of it, and so this year we had a family decision that we were going to go the show – and not only go to it, but perform in it.

So my father created a parody psalm, and I worked up a juggling routine with my ancient glowballs (and my blue one died – yay, new juggling equipment to buy!). And we went, and laughed at the kids, and clapped, and sat very still being very nervous (in my case), and my dad did his usual brilliant job of convincing the kids they were amused, and actually amusing the adults, and I juggled in the dark, and finally stopped shaking about five minutes after I got offstage. There were some other great acts, too – Adam did a medley that tells the life of Jesus as song parodies, and Susan sang Somewhere Over the Rainbow with the full intro, which you hardly ever hear anymore. It was the best Friday show I remember, and we got a lot of great comments, too.