If you grow it they will come.
Lavender that is.
Embed from Getty ImagesNot so far away several acres of transplanted heaven glows blue and purple.
Hip high bushes tremble in the Summer breeze.
A Summer breeze carrying an intoxicating scent that lifts the heart and calms the spirit.
Peace comes dropping slow.
Rows and rows of nature’s glory climb towards a hazy horizon.
People of all ages and cultures walk the straight path between the rows with like devout pilgrims.
In the shimmering stillness there is an awareness of profound blessings to be harvested here.
Settling into the self, breathing slow, sloughing off the shackles of busyness.
Emerging into simple being.
Being.
The bonny birds wheel higher and higher in the sky making perhaps for Leith Hill.
Embed from Getty ImagesLeith Hill where the young Ralph Vaughan Williams’ musical soul was quickened and nourished.
Embed from Getty ImagesA musical soul which survived the horrors of war to produce quicksilver streams of tender beauty.
A musical soul which evoked in, ‘The Lark Ascending’ a sense of the mystical gyre uniting life and death.
Walking among the lavender it seemed as if this wondrous music infused the air.
I have chosen to feature an incandescent performance by by Nicola Benedetti.
Listening we are invited to enter the realm of the sublime.
Note: I would urge you to seek out the astonishing poem by George Meredith which inspired Vaughan Willians to create his own masterwork.
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Hi Thom, both the music and the poem that inspired it are beautiful and full of power. That someone could be inspired write so many lines about the song of a bird may be lost on the average person now. But the older I get, the more I am drawn to the simple creatures so close to us that we seldom stop to notice them. Now my wife and I feed our local birds just so we can sit and watch them. Now the local deer come to eat the seeds the sparrows and the blue jays drop on the ground. Quail come in groups of 50 or more. These are the things that makes getting older more than acceptable. What beautiful music you bring to us. Thanks, Thom.
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Thanks Charlie. Nature is so full of plenty. Regards Thom.
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Nicola Benedettii is wonderful, isn’t she? I’ve seen her several times, the first when she was a teenager and had just won BBC Young Musician of the Year. I just googled to see how long ago that was – 12 years and she’s now 29! Time flies. I also like Vaughan Williams. I had no idea when I was young and enjoyed a TV programme called Family at War that the theme tune was taken from his music. See what memories your post has stirred up today?
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Thanks Anabel. Delighted to have stirred those memories. Regards Thom.
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Thanks you so much for sharing this with us. I was not familiar with this piece.
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