Changing Horizons

I'm visiting ancestral lands, and part of this particular trip has involved sorting through the last of my things in my father's house, which will be put up for sale in spring 2013. It's been an emotional few days.  I may write at more length on the process later, or I may not. I found this poem by my grandmother in the front pages of a folder full f my grandfather's coin collection, and thought...

Song for October Ending

In around 2006 I wrote this SATB setting of a poem by my grandmother. The weather is a bit autumnal here today and a few people were talking about things they like about autumn, so I thought I'd post it even though it's two months early. SONG FOR OCTOBER ENDING For a season cold rain imprisons us; our lives circle around coffee cups, blue teapots, things simmering on the stove, baking in the...