Things That Bring me Joy. ‘Happy New Year’
Blessings to you for the New Year ahead. Harry Baker’s poem attached sums up 2023 for me, especially the last line. So, I wish you and all your families many Joy’s in 2024. Now, it’s time to write your own poem. X
So, 2024, opens a door,
to health, peace and light.
Choose the strength to make that step,
Go forth with a newfound might.
Push that door, for 2024.
Fill your life with so much more.
And finally this beautiful piece of Music from the Scottish folk group Capercaillie. It is a haunting piece of music performed so magnificantially by Capercaillie with the backing of the Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Spellbinding. (Inspired by the poet Sorley MacLean). One of the most powerful lines in this song, “Well, it’s nature’s way of saying, Our backs are up against the wall”
To the highest ridge of Storr
Where the lapwing sings a eulogy
At the wonder of it all
As the evening shadows plunder
The cloak around the world
We remember all the mornings
At the heart of it all
At the heart of it all
Is a calling to this land
In the words of our salvation
Is a song for the common man
At the heart of it all
Is a story to be told
For the sake of our salvation
And the troubles we behold
You can see the river rising
Its banks will creak and slide
There’s a silence in the evergreens
And a surging of the tide
Well, it’s nature’s way of saying
Our backs are up against the wall
By the hush of the world
In the lull before the storm
At the heart of it all
Is a calling to this land
In the words of our salvation
Is a song for the common man
At the heart of it all
Is a story to be told
For the sake of our salvation
And the troubles we behold
The poems and the musings
Of Sorley MacLean
They tumble and cascade across
The page of every man
They will rise and spring to life again
In a song for the good of all
Where the people and their land are at
The heart of it all
At the heart of it all
Is a calling to this land
In the words of our salvation
Is a song for the common man
At the heart of it all
Is a story to be told
For the sake of our salvation
And the troubles we behold
Read about Sorley MacLean. His poetry readings were described as deeply moving even by listeners who did not speak Gaelic;[8]: 17 according to Seamus Heaney, “MacLean’s voice had a certain bardic weirdness that sounded both stricken and enraptured”.
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