I encourge you to listen to this beautiful little song sent to me by a friend yesterday.

She said: “Gary, this brought the protectors on Mauna Kea – and you, and demonstrators elsewhere – to mind.

Thought you might enjoy hearing it – a good reminder from long, long ago.

Aloha,   Mary

How Can I Keep From Singing? (trad. updated by Joel Mabus)

There is a song we seem to know
That’s just beyond our hearing
Softly now it seems to grow
And through the fog is clearing
The music sweet, the lyric keen
A message to us bringing
I hum along and I join the tune
How can I keep from singing

From time to time, there comes a song
It matters not the singer
A song of grace and charity
No trace of guile or anger
As harmonies around me build
A new world just beginning
My faith renewed, it beckons me
How can I keep from singing

When warriors come and bang the drum
And march their troops before us
Then friends of peace link hand in hand
And join as one in chorus
Their voices rise from every land
An anthem sweetly ringing
I hear their song of peace on earth
How can I keep from singing

A song of hope, a song of love
A song of understanding
A song to lift me up above
This world of strife and yearning
So long as blood within me flows
This song shall know no ending
So while I yet have breath and voice
How can I keep from singing