i carry your heart song

a big welcome to all the lovely ladies from sits who are stopping by today.  i hope you enjoy your visit, and i look forward to checking out your blogs as well!

something you may not know about me is that i love singing and have been composing songs (for fun) ever since high school.  since i always enjoy learning something new about my fellow bloggers, i thought it would be fun to share one of the songs i've written.

i wrote this song for my sister, hannah, as a christmas gift a few years ago.  the lyrics are adapted from e.e. cumming's poem "i carry your <3" - a favorite of ours. 

i hope you enjoy (and if you don't - please be kind : )

original poem by e.e. cummings

i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart)
i am never without it
(anywhere i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling)

i fear no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet)
i want no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)

so, mavens, do you have any hobbies or interests that not too many people know about?  i encourage you to share them too!

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cocktails & carols

no, this is not a post about me drinking a bit too much and then breaking into song.  (though that would be quite entertaining...)  last night craig and i joined my parents and sis at a local bar lounge to partake in some (organized) carol singing to celebrate the holiday season.  how festive! 

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we ordered our drinks as they passed out song books and prepped the crowd for the sing along.  (for those of you who don't know, i love singing...as does my family.  we sing a lot.  in the car.  while cooking.  for no reason whatsoever.  we break into song quite often.)

the event was organized by a local carol society (yes...they do exist...).  needless to say we had a lot of fun.  and a lot of laughs.  my recommendation?  while the holiday season is upon us and public displays of unabashed singing is allowed (more or less), indulge yourself.  i mean really...who doesn't love to sing?!  even people who "can't" sing, love to sing.  (i learned that last night....lol.)

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so, sing in your car.  sing while baking christmas cookies.  and sing to your neighbors when you deliver them...if you dare...

oh the weather outside is frightful, but the fire is so delightful....