loves made up of small bright things
Feb. 12th, 2008 03:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lotesseJust bought myself three immeasurably precious songs from Amazon - all three by Pete Seeger. "Crow on the Cradle," "Oh, Had I a Golden Thread," and "Black Girl." Only the last one is widely known, because Nirvana sang a version of it called "Where Did You Sleep Last Night." My Tita used to sing it to me as a little girl, that one sad single verse again and again.
Oh Pete. His voice keys me right back to love, to childhood, to the safety of my big rambunctious passionate family. To the truth of the basic goodness of the world. I may hunt down other versions of his songs, but it's never not his voice I want to be listening to.
In a fabulous segue, "I do not know what it means, but the spell of it has been on my all of my life." Because I've also been listening to "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" again, and Reep! And oh, good god, Caspian, Caspian the boy-king of Narnia. Mmmm.
Oh Pete. His voice keys me right back to love, to childhood, to the safety of my big rambunctious passionate family. To the truth of the basic goodness of the world. I may hunt down other versions of his songs, but it's never not his voice I want to be listening to.
In a fabulous segue, "I do not know what it means, but the spell of it has been on my all of my life." Because I've also been listening to "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" again, and Reep! And oh, good god, Caspian, Caspian the boy-king of Narnia. Mmmm.