“It's About
Time”
“It's
about time we realize it, we're all in this together.
It's about
time we find out, it's all of us or none.
It's about
time we recognize it, these changes in the weather.
It's about
time, it's about changes, it's about time.”
John
Denver (except from “It's About Time” 1983)
There's a video making
its way across the internet of John Denver singing “It's About
Time” in Russia in 1986, before the end of the Cold War. This song,
as is true of many of his others, is all about love and brotherhood.
I have to confess that I have always loved John Denver's music—ever
since I saw him sing “Country Roads” in a little tavern in
Colorado Springs in the early '70's. It was a time of war and unrest
that produced his yearning for peace, and home. Mine, too. After
thirty-four years, the words of his songs are, unfortunately, still
timely.
Denver wrote: “People
everywhere are the same in heart and spirit. No matter what language
we speak, what color we are, the form of our politics or the
expression of our love and our faith, music proves we are the same.”
It IS about time, don't
you think? Time to put ego aside, and tend to our families and our
neighbors. Time to stop worrying about climbing the ladder, and
keeping up with the Jones, and focusing on me-my-and-mine. Time to
consider that people everywhere are flesh and blood and heart and
soul, and just want to live in peace. Time to reach across, and reach
out, and give a hand up. Time to love this planet that is our home
enough to treat it with respect.
Since this is poetry
month, I am taking liberties with you. Here is a beautiful Eskimo
song from the book: Earth Prayers.
“The
great sea has set me in motion.
Set me
adrift,
and I move
as a weed in the river.
The arch
of sky
and
mightiness of storms
encompasses
me,
and I am
left
trembling
with joy.”
It doesn't get any more
spiritual than that. May your day be blessed with beauty.
In the Spirit,
Jane
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