The Silent Referee
Lenda Letlaka
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“Of your silent referee,” I used to sing as a teenager in high school to Sarah McLachlan’s iconic song Angel.<br/><br/>“You’re in the arms of the angel. May you find some comfort here…”<br/><br/>I haven’t thought about that song or those <a target="_blank" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=sarah+mclachlan+angel+lyrics&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS885US885&oq=sarah+mclachlan+angel+lyrics&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i512l3j0i22i30l6.6336j1j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8">lyrics</a> too much since the 90’s.<br/><br/>Last week I travelled up to <a target="_blank" href="http://www.cityofgeorge.org/history/history.htm">George, WA</a>. Yes, clearly the town namesake thought it would be funny to name itself after the United States first president for no other reason than they could.<br/><br/>Anywho, Brandi Carlile was playing at the Gorge Amphitheater a place we hadn’t been since she first headlined the epic venue in 2019. But, not only was Brandi going to be there, this time she was bringing along the absolute legend Sarah McLachlan!<br/><br/>McLachlan is the woman who started, conceived of and made <a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilith_Fair">Lilith Fair</a> in 1997. The first festival full of female artists housing greats like Indigo Girls, Sheryl Crow, Tracy Chapman, etc and respectively raised over $10 million for charity.<br/><br/>Every ounce of my teenage heart wanted to go to Lilith Fair. And, every ounce of my closeted heart knew it’d be a bit too obvious to share such a compelling desire. I figured, I could wait just a couple more years ‘til I was out of high school and then I could go do what I really wanted.<br/><br/>In the meantime I listened to Sarah McLachlan on repeat. There’s something about the sensuality of her voice, the way each note starts up high in her seventh chakra then travels it’s way down low into the root chakra winding it’s way all the way back up to the seventh again. Taking you a
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