Sing Song Ping Pong

Rehearsing in a choir of 360 people can get pretty intense, especially when you're in an non air-conditioned space.  Many of the tenured choir members have adapted to these conditions with make-shift fans.  I wanted to join in, but I wanted to make my fan special.  As I brainstormed a design, most all of my ideas were shaped like a ping pong paddle.  What could ping pong have in common with the Tabernacle?  I brewed on that thought for a couple days, and then following a Sunday morning broadcast the epiphany came to me.  Ping pong has nothing to do with the Tabernacle itself, but it sounds an awful lot like what happens within the historic walls: Sing & Song.  Sing and Song are like my yin and yang to ping and pong in my brand new set of choir fans.  I had to make two just in case someone brought a ball.  Each fan has been carefully crafted with scrap matte board, Kodak photo paper, a popsicle stick and assembled with glue. Chinese characters for both sing and song appear engraved on the neck of each fan.  Each fan has a green and a red side symbolizing balance and harmony.  One can almost hear the sound of a bouncing ping pong while fanning; as the sound of a metronome the bouncing ball continues to bounce in your mind.  All of the sudden ping pong and sing song seem to be directly interconnected.