The Singing Pool

When Wendy moves to a new neighborhood,she faces religious intolerance and isolation. In her dreams she finds her inner voice, restoring her sense of purpose and belonging. The Singing Pool is a coming of age story about overcoming prejudice, self doubt, and finding inner peace and strength. Madelyn Lantz wrote the story for The Singing Pool while working on her Master’s Degree at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The story was inspired by her drawing of a bird being born with angel wings near a waterfall. Madelyn explains: “A few days after drawing this image, I wrote a story based on an inspiring vision of a healing pool containing creative water. This story expressed traumatic events from my childhood. These events were an ongoing occurrence in first grade where I was exposed to intolerance towards my Jewish faith, and have dominated my life with an underlying current of anxiety, fear, self doubt, self pity, and denial of my heritage and culture.”