As we step into our last week with the colour orange — the colour of fall sunsets, crunchy leaves underfoot, jack-o-lantern smiles, and towering sunflowers — we arrive at one of its most joyful qualities: fun.
Singing is work — real work. It demands focus, repetition, patience, breath, awareness, and grit. Anything we deeply care about will always ask something of us.
But the truth we sometimes forget is this: discipline and joy are allowed to coexist. In fact, the work should eventually ignite us. It should make us feel alive.
I hope you’re beginning to feel the results of your effort — the strength in your voice, the growing trust in your body, the spark of something awakening. And most importantly — I hope you’re letting yourself have fun. Yes — fun.
Because when we give ourselves permission to let go — even a little — we discover something magical:
→Technique gives you the wings. Fun is what lets you fly. 🪽
We can get so focused on doing it “right” — the vowels, the phrasing, the story, the breath plan — that we forget that structure is not the destination. It is simply the launchpad. Within structure we find freedom — the freedom to be expressive, to savour the feeling of sound moving through us, to delight in the moment where a note feels like light pouring out of you.
This week: let go. Smile. Play. Let singing feel good.
This Week’s Challenge
Write a short reflection:
How does singing make you feel — and where or when do you have the most fun with music?
Describe it like a moment, a metaphor, or a small memory. Let us feel it with you.
Orange ends in joy. Let it end in laughter, aliveness, and the kind of fun that reminds you why you showed up in the first place.
— Andrea “letting go” Donais