"The Horse Bones" -- Peacemaking Music

I have been rehearsing with a small group of musicians for an upcoming performance on Culture Day, this Saturday the 3rd. The leader of the group is an English teacher at a nearby school. Although I don`t understand much of what we sing (in Japanese), it is peace that we sing about. I will be performing `Blowing in the Wind` and `The Water is Wide/Though I May Speak` (in English).

`Though I May Speak with Bravest Fire` is a song out of the UU hymnal, to the tune of `Water is Wide`. The first two verses are very Buddhist, I think:

Though I may speak with bravest fire
And have the gift to all inspire
And have not love, my words are vain,
As sounding brass, and hopeless gain.

Though I may give all I possess,
And striving so my love profess,
But not be given by love within,
The profit soon turns strangely thin.



It is a pleasure to sing for something I believe in. I miss you, Mo, RCA, and Portland UUs!!!!!