Crossing the divide

So many bloggers are posting 100 facts about themselves and I feel as if my entire blog is facts about myself. Oh well, and yes, feelings too! Here is one fact about me connected to a feeling.

My favorite song (which I sing quite well too, by the way) is Across the Great Divide by Kate Wolf. I first heard it 18 years ago in Herzliyah with a bird-watching man who had clear blue eyes, and wept when he listened to music. Ah, and it's a relief to realize that I have forgiven him too. I especially love Kate Wolf's version but Nanci Griffin does a great job too. Well, of course, she has Emmy Lou in the back-up vocals!

I think it's a song about how I feel.

Across the Great Divide by Kate Wolf

I've been walkin' in my sleep
Countin' troubles 'stead of countin' sheep
Where the years went I can't say
I just turned around and they've gone away

I've been siftin' through the layers
Of dusty books and faded papers
They tell a story I used to know
And it was one that happened so long ago

CHORUS:
It's gone away in yesterday
Now I find myself on the mountainside
Where the rivers change direction
Across the Great Divide

Now, I hear the owl a-callin'
Softly as the night was fallin'
With a question and I replied
But he's gone across the borderline

CHORUS

The finest hour that I have seen
Is the one that comes between
The edge of night and the break of day
It's when the darkness rolls away