What’s your song?

Is there a song you carry in your heart?

One that seems to sustain you, or nourish you?

Last night I held the third online gathering for a small group of men. 

The previous two times we worked with poems, and this time, recognising that we all learn about ourselves and our world in different ways, this time we switched it up.

The invitation was to bring a song that had personal meaning.

One that has walked with us, 

Or one that has newly arrived in our lives.

Something powerful occurred to me during the evening,

We all have a song in our hearts.

And perhaps, just as Rilke asked, 

Maybe our lives, are one “great song”, 

Maybe we are the song.

But I wondered, how often do we get to sing it, or share it?

To end our session, I selected this ‘grace note’, 

Old Song.

I found it in the Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart, in the chapter:

“Loving the world anyway”.

What I hadn’t appreciated until the session though, was just how fitting it was, because whilst it speaks so strongly to the human condition, the theme of what it feels like to be alive surfaced part way through.

So that closing line, regardless of what song is in our hearts, seemed like a beautiful way to close a beautifully real 2 hours.

“To be alive to hear this song is a victory”.

Next month, there isn’t an online session, because instead, we are gathering in person, on a small farm in rural Suffolk.

We hope it will be a beautifully alive weekend.

So if you would like to join me, Giles, and a small group of men, all the details are in this link.

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