A View from the Landscape of Time

Landscape

by King's Singers 2006

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The land and its eternal relationship to time, the seasons have ordered our lives for longer than any society can recollect. As we make way for the times of the seasons, may we joyously make yet another season in time.

"We are all shaped, perhaps unconsciously, by the landscape and time in which we live. This evocative and spiritual programme, which contains five King's Singers commissions, explores the links between human life and its surroundings through the differing personal languages of poets and composers."

Landscape from the site: kingssingers.com

We are all shaped, perhaps unconsciously, by the landscape and time in which we live. This evocative and spiritual programme, which contains five King's Singers commissions, explores the links between human life and its surroundings through the differing personal languages of poets and composers. - See more at: http://www.kingssingers.com/p/cds-aand-dvds/landscape-aand-time/cd18.html#sthash.rMsWU6nH.dpuf

The King's Singers Album, Landscapes-- 2006

The Miracle of a Day

"It is the gift of the artist to bring this to us one and all, an ordinary spring day!"

Ordinary Day

Sung by Sarah Mclachlan

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Its not that usual when everything is beautiful
Its just another ordinary miracle today

The sky knows when its time to snow
You don't need to teach a seed to grow
Its just another ordinary miracle today...

Birds in winter have their fling
And always make it home by spring
Its just another ordinary miracle today

When you wake up everyday
Please don't throw your dreams away
Hold them close to your heart
Cause we are all a part
Of the ordinary miracle

Ordinary miracle
Do you want to see a miracle?

Its seems so exceptional
Things just work out after all...

Its just another ordinary miracle today

Here in the northern  hemisphere, at least, there are the definite signs of spring. Even after what, in some parts, has been a mild winter, the grass lightly green, there are still those definitive signs that the season is changing. Around us, the frogs emerging up from their muddy sleep are singing once more; birds, doves, Red Wing blackbirds, and all the native songsters are returning; they drill the morning air with arias of delight.

 The earlier light warms and wakes the trees; their beauty and delight is glistening, renewed for some and the misery of allergies for others; still we marvel, like the lyrics of this song, to what seems to be 'an ordinary miracle today.' Writing about art and spiritual matters, Thomas Merton writes "One of the most neglected areas... is the ability to see the value and the beauty of ordinary things, to come alive to the splendor that is all around us... " It is the gift of the artist to bring this to us one and all, an ordinary spring day!