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Current mood:  breezy Category: Writing and Poetry
Here's the story about the birth of my new song.
I could sit for hours listening to stories, or reading them. The storybook of Griffen & Sabine (Chronicle Books 1991) was brought to a book club by Rosie, and I pulled it out early the next morning with a cup of coffee in my garden.
Nick Bantock did an amazing job of integrating words with art and metaphor. The romance didn't escape me, but what haunted me when I got about my work for the day was the spiritual parallel story. It seemed to me that Griffin represented humanity's search for deeper purpose. Griffin is talented and has found a nitch for himself in London's production-driven society. By all accounts he is a successful greeting card artist. (which, I imagine is a difficult thing to achieve.)
He doesn't realize exactly how dismal he feels until a postcard from Sicmon Islands arrives and a strange young woman begins to tell him not only about herself and her rich island life working as the national artist for the Island's stamps, but also as someone who has had visions of Griffin's artwork from when she was a girl. She can tell him his mistakes that he had erased and even make suggestions.
Griffin, of course, is flipped out, but curious and so they begin an exchange of deeper and deeper information about themselves. I see Sabine as the metaphor of God in her knowledge of Griffin, her own loveliness and love for him, and Griffin's responses to her are natural, given the circumstances.
The end of the book leaves you hoping that he had finally made his decision to join her.
That very week, I had also been pondering a book by Joni Erickson Tada, "When God Weeps" and so that philosophy together with the image of the Macaws in the tree exploding when Sabine smashes her toe, the beauty and the pain of life, compelled me to plop down with my pen, paper and guitar and write out a song.
My sister, who is into natural herbs for healing, one day she told me about the poisonous venom from a snake, under ideal circumstances, is actually a potent healing. I have no doubt that the Creator has recipes and remedies for all kinds of illness, and that these mysteries are part of what keep the scientists hopping. All of these ideas and theories are wrapped up in my adaption of the story in song.
2:22 PM
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