A Sunday Stroll, A Singing Choir, Songza, and a Chicago Open House

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Sunday emerges superbly this day, shining on the denizens of this metropolis we call Chicago.

Hallelujah.

And as Jackson, Lucas and I took a spin around the block before I head to my open house in a contemporary single family home in the Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago - Jackson on his brilliantly beautiful blue bike and Lucas with feet propped up on his Kettler trike, me pushing with one hand and balancing a cup of Metropolis coffee in the other - we heard the congregation lifting their voices in St. Gertrude's at the corner of Granville and Glenwood.

Jackson always asks if we can see if the church is open as we pass. Today with the doors wide open we had our answer. So we crossed the street and took it all in, enjoying blue skies, warm weather and the beauty of "Hallelujah" being lifted by a church full of voices.

Hallelujah.

One of the glories of several movies that I love watching with the boys are single stamp songs that are so magnificently massive that they surpass the boundaries of the movie that they spawn from. And so is the case with "Hallelujah" from the movie Shrek.

And as we returned from our ambulation about our Edgewater neighborhood I turned to Songza and pulled up the entire series of Shrek-related "Hallelujah" songs. And so it now serves as the backdrop as the boys tunnel small holes in the backyard and as I furiously scratch out this brief missive.

And so as you consider the state of your current Chicago home or plan what bit of real estate you will next pursue in Chicago click the connection here to see if Rufus Wainwright singing "Hallelujah" from Shrek has the same glorious impact on you as it does in my neck of the woods.

Hah! It's kinda like love, you just don't know where it's gonna come from, and you surely can't plan it. But when it's there, voila! That's the beauty of life - there's a compelling mystery as we experience one great thing after another, sometimes with knowing anticipation and at other times fully and wholly unexpected.