Tag: Music
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So She Reads Collection: Come, they told me…
Welcome to our last collection of the year. It’s coming at the beginning of the month instead of the end. I hope these links, pictures, and quotes inspire your words and actions this Christmas season. For the Christ Child who comes is the master of all, no palace to great, no cottage too small. Phillips…
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So She Reads Collection: Feasting
WELCOME to our monthly collection, an online equivalent of the commonplace book. Here is where we offer links and ideas for you to explore, and things we might want to revisit or remember. Brew yourself a cup of tea and savor a quiet moment while you read. Be inspired to live with equal parts industry…
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So She Reads Collection: September Somethings
There’s a purple tint on the woodland leaves And the wind’s are up all day,There’s a rustling heard in the yellow sheavesAnd it seems to sadly say,Sweet summer, sweet summer, sweet summer’s gone away.–S. C. Hanson, page 26 in The Expanded Practical Musical Reader WELCOME to our monthly collection, our online commonplace book. Here you…
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The Power of School Songs: Why Children Benefit From Folk Music
Every September, that’s the same old bell a-ringing in the little red schoolhouse. I hear a discordant note when grade school children sing songs about redemption or wasted years or being lost. There is an inharmonious feeling between what I hear and what I see. Innocent children but words for adults. Childish voices with the…
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Of Memories Most Tender
The ash grove how graceful, how plainly ’tis speaking, The harp through it playing has language for me. When over it’s branches the sunlight is breakingA host of kind faces is gazing at me. The friends of my childhood again are before meEach step wakes a memory as freely I roam. With soft whispers laden…
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We Have Time
As we were driving recently, I found myself singing the song God Has Time. Every line reminded me of his care and then I noticed it also reminded me of the important things that I should care about too. Maybe I am reading between the lines and getting more out of the song than the…
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