It feels like this was a week of big transitions for many. Some finished or graduated from school (as teachers or students), some of you head to cooler weather for the seasons, some of you are making moves, some of you are starting new projects–or ending them. Sometimes there are words for these transitions and sometimes there are none.
For all of these transitions–or even just the little transitions of your day–here is a beautiful song that reads like a Mary Oliver poem. May the words land on you where you might not have the words.
The Lost Words Blessings
By Julie Fowlis, Karine Polwart, Seckou Keita, Kris Drever, Rachel Newton, Beth Porter, Jim Molyneux, Kerry Andrew.
Enter the wild with care, my love
And speak the things you see
Let new names take and root and thrive and grow
And even as you travel far from heather, crag and river
May you like the little fisher, set the stream alight with glitter
May you enter now as otter without falter into water
Look to the sky with care, my love
And speak the things you see
Let new names take and root and thrive and grow
And even as you journey on past dying stars exploding
Like the gilded one in flight, leave your little gifts of light
And in the dead of night my darling,
find the gleaming eye of starling
Like the little aviator, sing your heart to all dark matter
Walk through the world with care, my love
And sing the things you see
Let new names take and root and thrive and grow
And even as you stumble through machair sands eroding
Let the fern unfurl your grieving, let the heron still your breathing
Let the selkie swim you deeper, oh my little silver-seeker
Even as the hour grows bleaker, be the singer and the speaker
And in city and in forest, let the larks become your chorus
And when every hope is gone, let the raven call you home
If you’d like to hear the song, you can find it here:
https://thebirdsings.com/lost-words-blessing/