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| Lyell Fork of the Tuolemne River, Yosemite National Park |
I watched the version they did in Central Park, 1981...It was wonderful...Next I listened to "American Tune". Why don't people write songs like that anymore? There was a comment under the video...
"The day after the 9/11 attacks, I went to work, and plugged this CD into my player, not thinking about this song at all. When it began to play, I burst into tears. Without a word, and without knowing what I was listening to, the woman sitting across from me moved to sit next to me, and hugged me until she had to get off the bus. A song that will live in my heart forever"
Her words made me realize how much music touches the deepest part of us. How we seem to have a built in mechanism for wanting to let music in to feed and move us. Because it does. Her experience of being comforted by a stranger reminded me of how much we need each other and can change a life just by being there. Anyway, this is what I was thinking after watching the concert and reading the special comment ...
"God knows how to make us a symphony. A sweet, deep healing song...that's what he can make of us.
If only we could allow ourselves to listen to the voice that could put us in synch, in time with his timing and each other.
God knows how to make us flow together so that our lives look like the river of living water that quenches and cools the aching need that parches every soul.
God knows how to help us play a note that matters and catches hold so that we know it by heart and sing it easily.
I'd like to listen long enough to learn how to play my part in the symphony and stop trying to conduct the music of the universe."
Here is the link if you want to watch...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTZkk66pd1I
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