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| Butterfly and hummingbird |
(Another
short sound bite extracted from a
scene from a play that is in the
works.)
(Setting: It
is a new day, the sun is peaking over the horizon and almost as fast as the one
beat of a heart all the darkness that filled the night has been transformed.
The illumination by that great mystical star from heaven allows the pilgrims to
experience the sacredness of colors of the trees and flowers. Birds sing in
simple melodious delight. The wisp of the winds creates a “swooshing whisper”
as if to pass on some great secret. The
rippling of the stream is mantra to the dawn. The crickets’ nocturnal chorus
fades with the warming daylight and the monarch and hummingbird pass the time in silence.)
.....Pilgrim
1: Music has a purpose you know. I don’t understand it but the creation of a
piece of music has a mysterious mystical origin. Where do you think composers
and songwriters get their ideas for creating a particular piece of music? A
songwriter friend of mine says he has no idea where he gets the musical notes
and the lyrics for his songs. It all just seems to pour out when he begins to
compose the song. There seems to be some consecrated spark that fuels the flame
that burns within the hearts and souls of these artists and finds it’s escape
through a channel we call music.
Pilgrim
2: What?
Pilgrim
1: That unknown beatific source is that same source that had given the birds an
intuitive desire to sing as well as creating the origins of the science that when
orchestrated properly the wind can be heard brushing the leaves and the waves sing softly and sweetly kissing
the sand on a deserted beach..
Pilgrim
2: Oh come on now where are you going with this? All I was doing was walking,
talking and listening to some music.
Pilgrim
1: Remember that the word “inspire” has it’s origins from the Latin “inspirare”
which in turn means “breathe into” and there is this ineffable force that
somehow breathes into everything and everyone nourishing their spark of
life residing within them. As you remember your Latin the term vocation comes
from “vocare” which is to listen to that voice within .There is that secret voice
that calls some to be composers – songwriters and they create sounds and
sometimes words that in turn blesses those who in turn open their hearts to
hear the music .
Admittedly
some music sounds as though it has origins that are not divine but that are a
matter for another exchange. But isn’t it uncanny how some songs can lift our
spirits, some console us, some reflect exactly what we are feeling, some grab
us and suddenly our whole bodies respond by holding onto one we love and
sharing the joy with movements called a dance….do you think all of that is an
accidental coincidence? Some songs invigorate our weak spirits and nourish us
with an energy we never thought we had to fight all injustice. What about the
lyrics of some songs that say exactly what is written on your heart or blesses
you just at the moment you require redemption or consolive illumination, do you
think those lyrics found your soul by chance?
Pilgrim
2: OK, you are losing me completely now.
Pilgrim
1: I heard this famous singer once
describe how music has become a form of “ear pollution.” In some cases music
has become a tool to help drown out the noise of the world. I guess there is a
value in that at times. In other cases it has become an economic channel with
its only purpose is to fill someone’s off shore accounts and have no
grace-filled origins. Do the truly great gifted artists stop painting or
sculpting if they are poor? Do you really think the masters of creating or
performing music, or even those who write poetry or great literature are only
motivated by the desire for attaining great wealth by using their gifts?
Music
is sacramental and when one’s listening to music the originating gift becomes self-perpetuating
…as long as there are ears and hearts to be present to what they hear.
Pilgrim
2 returned the ear-buds back in his ears, he clicks on his MP3 player, adjusts
the volume to loud and responds
Pilgrim
2: OK, we can continue another time? So excuse me “Professor IknowsomuchIwanttotellsomebody”
as I get back to my gift and get blessed.
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