Food for Thought (#85)
“You are marvelous. The gods wait to delight in you.”
– Charles Bukowski
Archive for March, 2011
How Songs Change
Songs change.
If you sing a song for a long time — a good song — it changes and grows just like a person. You get to see it’s personality. It shows you its funny side — or the pain it keeps hidden underneath.
I learned this song from Ysaye Barnwell in a workshop many years ago, and I’ll admit it troubled me a little. I wasn’t sure I liked singing about finding peace in dying and it made me sad to think of slaves singing this song and longing for the release of death. (There’s a lot of pain in that idea.)
But … when I got the news this weekend that the mother of one of my ATWI classmates had passed away earlier this week, this is the song I found myself singing.
And there was comfort in it (at least for me).
Like I said, songs change.
[audio:http://songtaneous.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Soon-I-Will-Be-Done.mp3|titles=Soon I Will Be Done]Food for Thought (#84)
As I wind down from working with the kiddos, these quotes seemed appropriate. *smile*
“A grownup is a child with layers on.”
– Woody Harrelson
“[We] do not quit playing because [we] grow old; [we] grow old because [we] quit playing.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes
(*Mr Holmes said “men,” but I decided he meant all of us. *smile*)
“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
– C.S. Lewis
