One last embrace before I cross the threshold.
We're singing this song at our concert as well as graduation. I love the song; it is beautiful and moving and pretty much perfect for a graduation song. But the description that accompanies it is wonderful as well, so I decided to share it because people don't have access to that at concerts. I'm pretty much going to bawl when we sing it. sigh
"Omnia Sol" goes beyond the obvious subect of a farewell or "song of parting," although it certainly has that as an integral aspect. From a deeper perspective, it is a reflection on the constant passage of love and commitment in the hearts of those who have been pillars along life's way. In that manner, the ever-changing chaos of life seems to find a peice of solid ground in the simple assurance that one is hardly alone; rather, life is a mosaic made up of visual images, conversations, laughter, love, sorrow, and experiences too numerous to count -- all as a result of one's interaction with other human beings from the moment of birth. One's life has an inseparable kinship with others. The metaphor for that kinship in the piece is "omnia sol" (or "everywhere light" [sun]), and that kinship or light is perpetuated by our daily investing and leaving a bit of ourselves in every soul we encounter. Though we mature and "move on," part of us is "staid" in the hearts and minds of those we chance to meet.
Omnia Sol (Let Your Heart Be Staid)
Somewhere far from nowhere,
I grew both strong and tall.
Longing to become
But knowing not the path at all.
But the footprints of the winter melted to fields of spring;
One last embrace before I cross the threshold:
To life we sing!
O stay your soul and leave my heart its song,
O stay your hand, the journey may be long.
And when we part, and sorrow can't be sway'd,
Remember when and let your heart be staid.
Omnia sol temperat, absens in remota. (The sun warms everything, even when I am far away.)
Ama me fideliter, fidem mean noto. (Love me faithfully, and know that I am faithful.)
Weave the dance and raise the corus, grieve no more.
Through the strength of Orion find refuge from the shore.
Let courage be your oar, let passion be your sail.
Wisdom and truth will guide your deep heart's yearning,
Through all travail.
O stay your soul and leave my heart its song,
O stay your hand, the journey may be long.
And when we part, and sorrow can't be sway'd,
Remember when and let your heart be staid.
Omnia sol temperat, absens in remota. (The sun warms everything, even when I am far away.)
Ama me fideliter, fidem mean noto. (Love me faithfully, and know that I am faithful.)
PS. Come to the concert: Thursday, May 10, 7:00, OHS auditorium
PPS. My dad bought a motorcycle. It's bright yellow-orange.
"Omnia Sol" goes beyond the obvious subect of a farewell or "song of parting," although it certainly has that as an integral aspect. From a deeper perspective, it is a reflection on the constant passage of love and commitment in the hearts of those who have been pillars along life's way. In that manner, the ever-changing chaos of life seems to find a peice of solid ground in the simple assurance that one is hardly alone; rather, life is a mosaic made up of visual images, conversations, laughter, love, sorrow, and experiences too numerous to count -- all as a result of one's interaction with other human beings from the moment of birth. One's life has an inseparable kinship with others. The metaphor for that kinship in the piece is "omnia sol" (or "everywhere light" [sun]), and that kinship or light is perpetuated by our daily investing and leaving a bit of ourselves in every soul we encounter. Though we mature and "move on," part of us is "staid" in the hearts and minds of those we chance to meet.
Omnia Sol (Let Your Heart Be Staid)
Somewhere far from nowhere,
I grew both strong and tall.
Longing to become
But knowing not the path at all.
But the footprints of the winter melted to fields of spring;
One last embrace before I cross the threshold:
To life we sing!
O stay your soul and leave my heart its song,
O stay your hand, the journey may be long.
And when we part, and sorrow can't be sway'd,
Remember when and let your heart be staid.
Omnia sol temperat, absens in remota. (The sun warms everything, even when I am far away.)
Ama me fideliter, fidem mean noto. (Love me faithfully, and know that I am faithful.)
Weave the dance and raise the corus, grieve no more.
Through the strength of Orion find refuge from the shore.
Let courage be your oar, let passion be your sail.
Wisdom and truth will guide your deep heart's yearning,
Through all travail.
O stay your soul and leave my heart its song,
O stay your hand, the journey may be long.
And when we part, and sorrow can't be sway'd,
Remember when and let your heart be staid.
Omnia sol temperat, absens in remota. (The sun warms everything, even when I am far away.)
Ama me fideliter, fidem mean noto. (Love me faithfully, and know that I am faithful.)
PS. Come to the concert: Thursday, May 10, 7:00, OHS auditorium
PPS. My dad bought a motorcycle. It's bright yellow-orange.