Content alert: If you’re raw and tender from a traumatic loss, this might not be the best time for you to view this video. But I find tremendous consolation within it. And hope. And encouragement to love, love, love . . .
Beneath the lyrics, I offer a bonus video on this day of total solar eclipse. Will you be watching?
IF I COULD SAY (From The Turning, a cycle by Maura Bosch) It was her twenty-ninth birthday in three days I was outside playing She was inside in her room She had a heart attack The last thing I said before I went out It was just lucky I guess I know I said, I love you I love you very much If I could see her now I would start up right where I left off I would say to her If I could say I love you I love you very much And then, I would say Look, I'm grown Look, you have two grandsons now And then, I would say Look at the tree The tree you planted so long ago The tree you planted, it shades the whole house now The tree you planted so long ago (My thanks to the composer and Chor Leoni.)
Your Eclipse Bonus
(My thanks to Richard Strauss, as rendered by Wayne Yang.)
The Gentle Nudge
Join other Rafters this week for . . .
WEDNESDAY: Creatives’ Coffee (Zoom, 4:00-5:00PM Central, at this link)
THURSDAY: Poetry Pick-Me-Up (Zoom, 12:00-1:00PM Central, at this link)