I know I’m not the only one who has been avoiding the news. It seems a tide of darkness threatens from almost every story. What can we possibly do?
photo by Randy Marshallphoto by Petite Shards Productionsphoto by Petite Shards Productions
Well, Mara Smith, Margaret Taylor and I are lucky enough to work with young people who are weekly ‘doing something’. They are more actively engaged in understanding differing cultures, cultivating brotherhood, and practicing empathy than any other program I know of: they sing together. They sing songs from around the world and across the ages, songs of kings, songs of slaves, songs of the holy, songs of war, songs of pain, songs of hope.
One song may seem a small thing, but many voices singing as one? That’s powerful. That’s the power of song.
Posted: February 4, 2015 by admin
Songs for Peace: Wintertide Concert 2015
I know I’m not the only one who has been avoiding the news. It seems a tide of darkness threatens from almost every story. What can we possibly do?
Well, Mara Smith, Margaret Taylor and I are lucky enough to work with young people who are weekly ‘doing something’. They are more actively engaged in understanding differing cultures, cultivating brotherhood, and practicing empathy than any other program I know of: they sing together. They sing songs from around the world and across the ages, songs of kings, songs of slaves, songs of the holy, songs of war, songs of pain, songs of hope.
One song may seem a small thing, but many voices singing as one? That’s powerful. That’s the power of song.
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