Sydney is a founding member of The Songkeepers. In this entry of the Sharing Circle, she shares her inspiration for her first song, the namesake of our choir’s seasonal performance on November 22 and 23, 2026.

One of the beautiful byproducts of women gathering to express themselves creatively is that we share and process stories together. Our nervous systems sync up as we tell our stories. And most remarkably, those voices in our heads, when exposed to daylight, get disarmed. We come to realize how common and actually banal they are, and we let them go.