I changed my mind which track of Laura's to include tonight, after watching the Daily Antidote of Song's session from today, which was powerful and sobering, and still hopeful, all at once. What is the Daily Antidote of Song, I hear you ask? It's a group of activist, community-minded, musical, cheerful and wise (so wise!) souls who meet every day, for around 30 minutes, to share a song and think about the world! Most participants are in the US and Canada, but there are a few longer-distance members from the UK as well (hello Ruth!). It's another of those happenings that came up through the pandemic - that maybe wouldn't have come into being any other way - but are now growing as a force for good and for connection between people. I'm really happy to have found it! Oh yes, and each day we learn a new song!!
So today's song at the DAS gave us knowledge of the work of Harry T Moore and Harriette Moore, work which put them in the firing line and led to the bombing of their home and their deaths on Christmas Night, 1951. This is the song we learned:
More on the Harry and Harriette Moore story here:
And everyone is welcome at the Daily Antidote of Song - details here:
So, I was kind of saving this track by Laura until a little nearer Christmas, but it seems the right track to upload today. Powerful, sobering and still a little bit hopeful...
I dwelt on this song overnight and visited it again this morning. Yes,it's sobering like the visit to DAS yesterday and the introduction to an atrocity I was totally unaware of - but also the knowledge that love is more powerful and it can make the biggest changes especially when people join together. Thankyou again for your choices.
This is an excellent choice after today’s DAS. One of the DASers said to me how sad the song was today (based on the Langston Hughes ballad—the Harlem Renaissance comes around again) and I told them what I could hear you say, which is what you say above about today’s DAS and Laura’s song, there is hope in it. When people die, their dreams don’t have to die with them.