Viqui Dill

Christmas 2022: Livestreamed video by Charles Town Now

https://fb.watch/hM8_ZSYdqI/ Even though Facebook and WordPress don’t play well together, you can still catch the video of us at the Holiday carol sing along on Christmas Eve at Ortega’s Taco Shop / Bushel and Peck in Charles Town WV. Hear Jim sing a new favorite, Jackson Browne’s “Rebel Jesus” at 57:00 for a special treat.https://fb.watch/hM9juPLJOy/

Christmas 2022: Christmas Eve Morning Concert Ortega’s Taco Shop Charles Town Now

https://www.facebook.com/bushelandpeckwv/videos/3113298138962424/ Even though Facebook and WordPress don’t play well together, you can still catch the video of us at the Holiday carol sing along on Christmas Eve at Ortega’s Taco Shop / Bushel and Peck in Charles Town WV. Hear Jim sing a new favorite, Jackson Browne’s “Rebel Jesus” at 57:00 for a special…

Jim and I love to make a joyful noise and have the people sing along. Hear Jim sing a new favorite, Jackson Browne's "Rebel Jesus" at 35:00 for a special treat.

Sunday Service (December 18th, 2022) Jim and I love to make a joyful noise and have the people sing along. Hear Jim sing a new favorite, Jackson Browne’s “Rebel Jesus” at 35:00 for a special treat.

Pride Month: I want to be a better ally

A timely call for peace

If the Leader Ain’t Happy, Nobody Sings

This is a repost from WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 2012 on my old blog. I hope to include it in a book someday.

Warning: What you’re about to read is considered a heresy in schools that teach worship leadership. It is based on my personal experiences, both as a worshiper and as a worship leader, and is offered as a cautionary tale.

One size does not fit all

What they teach about arranging a song for the…

Flying in a BGV Formation – I love harmony vocals!

This is a repost from SATURDAY, JULY 3, 2010 on my old blog. I hope to include it in a book someday.

This blog post is for all of you who love singing backup vocal, which we in the biz call BGV for BackGround Vocals.

I love singing with you guys. We fit together in a tightly controlled and yet totally organic formation, like a flock of geese flying in a V. Our lead vocalist goes up, we go up.…

Hey! Who Turned off the Water? – The Worship/Shower Analogy

This is a repost from MONDAY, JUNE 14, 2010 on my old blog. I hope to include it in a book someday.

A great worship experience is like a great shower and shampoo. When it’s going great, you can just stand there and let the whole thing wash over and envelop you. Ahhh, that wonderful washed clean feeling. Surrender to it.

There are a couple of things that can cause this awesome experience to fail.…

I Kiss with my Eyes Closed

This is a repost from FRIDAY, MAY 14, 2010 on my old blog. I hope to include it in a book someday.

I kiss with my eyes closed. I also take a shower with my eyes closed and I worship that way, too.

I think worship is a lot like kissing and showering. Worship is an experiential activity and when it’s good, I want to put my whole self into it. I close my eyes and I let go, just like kissing and…

4 Musical Languages of Worship

This is a repost from WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 2010 on my old blog. I hope to include it in a book someday.

Hey, it’s Viqui Dill again. I haven’t blogged in a while and now I have something to say. I want to hear your thoughts about it, too. So please please please leave a comment.

Today I want to talk about the 4 Musical Languages of Worship.

We don’t all speak the same language. The language or…

Man in the Middle, Mom on the Sidelines

This is a repost from MONDAY, JULY 26, 2010 from my old blog. It was a good day gone horribly bad. It strikes me as I read my own words how very first person the narrative is, maybe even narcissistic. But I wanted to get the story down before I forgot it and I wanted to give some props for the folks in my world who are so good to me.

  Dill Pickers at at Morgan Arts Council

It is July 24th and…

This is a repost from SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2011 from my old blog. The message is still true.

It’s the last thing Jesus said to us, before he flew back home. Acts 1:8

“But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

I like what he said, and I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about…

A Tale of Two Little Girls

my sister in blue on the left, me on the right in pink

This is a first person story I have needed to tell for some time. It’s a story of two little girls: me and my younger sister.

We were two little girls who grew up in the South in the 1960s and 70s; two little girls raised by the same family, playing with the same toys, sharing the same friends, attending the same schools, worshiping at the…

We’re gonna do this together with Viqui Dill – Content Content podcast

You can listen to me chatting with the fabulous #TechComm influencer and podcaster, Ed Marsh, on his Content Content Podcast from June 25, 2019. We had a whole lot of fun and Ed is a great interviewer.

Check it out.

Viqui Dill, Senior Technical Writer at American Woodmark in Virginia, talks to Ed Marsh how everyone is a project manager in some form, life in the (literal) hardware industry, her…

Viqui Dill #PowerOfStory 2019 07 16

Viqui Dill presents her story to celebrate her 60th birthday. #PowerOfStory #StopSuicide

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Blog post: A Tale of Two Little Girls http://viquidill.blogspot.com/2011/12/atale-of-two-little-girls-my-sister-in.html

Blog post: Letter to myself in 1987 https://viqu…