Many Seasons
By Bunjigram on May 19, 2024 9:10 pm
So this week I was feeling a bit nostalgic. On Friday, my brothers and their wives came to my home, and we spent hours going through boxes of items that I'd been storing in my garage for sometime. These were no ordinary "things". They were items that had belonged to our parents. Most of their belongings we had sorted through a couple years ago after my Dad had passed. Mom passed three years prior to him. We knew these remaining items would take more time since they were more personal. Things like Mom's jewelry, Dad's coin collection, family Bibles, photo albums, and familiar little trinkets from bygone years. I think we all wanted some time to pass before we tackled these little treasures. Anyway, it was a heart-warming experience to see items and their stories passed on to sons and daughters-in-law. Thinking about this, I was reminded of a poem that a family member wrote nearly 27 years ago as a tribute to my grandmother on her 90th birthday. A framed copy hangs on a wall in my home. Called "Many Seasons", here is one stanza from the poem that I really like: "We are shadows passing in pale moonlight. How wonderful that we should get to dance together and share with one another the blessings of our fragile lives." Sitting at the piano today thinking about this "dance" we call life, I had this little waltz pop into my head. It captured my mood perfectly, so I recorded it and named it "Many Seasons" as a tribute to my parents, grandparents and the beautiful poem that inspired this song. Thanks for listening. -RCN
Performed on a Shigeru-Kawai SK-5 grand sample on the ES8.
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