THEY ARE MY SONG is a book I just finished making. Okay, Mamm, Danann, Sidhelagh, Drustann, Alianora, Sass, Talorc, Caileen, Kalann, Aine, and Merri did it. Credit where credit is due, you know.
It's what I've been working on for the past months and let me tell you it's been a LOT of fun!
Now that it's done and 'out there' I reckon I can finally tell you a thing or two about the whole thing.
And no I'm not going to blab the whole story. That would defeat the purpose of getting it published.
Still, there's a story behind the story and I can tell THAT.
Into every life, no matter where or when it is lived, comes a time when each of us is faced with making a choice.
What is important enough to us that we will risk all in order to preserve it for those who will come after us?
At the time and the place of this story, the legacy our people are forced to defend is, on the surface, the belief system by which they live their lives - religion, if you will.
Before their time, their people have fought to remain in their own homes, to retain their own independence, to maintain their own culture. Some won; some lost.
Our people represent, in the gathering darkness following the invasion of Europe by the Huns and the fall of the Western Roman Empire, one of the few remaining sparks of light in an Age that comes to be known for its Darkness.
This is a work of fiction.
However - that time, that place, and such people as we meet in They Are My Song were very real.
Their immediate forebears had fought to preserve the land in which they lived; without those battles, and the price paid, our people may well have not HAD a legacy to pass on, nor a safe (relatively speaking) place in which to preserve it.
Religious freedom is but the tip of the iceberg. It symbolizes a much more fundamental concept.
The people of our story, and those who came before them, and those who have followed them, have preserved for US much more than religious freedom. In that struggle, individual freedom has also been preserved and passed on.
The right of each and all to choose, and follow, whatever path best suits us, is something we take for granted, most of us.
We need to remember that the struggle to preserve that choice has been going on for a very long time, by the very people from whom we are descended, a lot of us. Real people, real lives, real blood.
We also need to be paying attention to our OWN times, our OWN lives, our OWN choices ... and maybe give a little consideration to the legacy we are leaving for those who will come after US.
They Are My Song:
Choice
Creation, Life, Death, Eternity
Peace
Faith
Healing
Hope
Love
As the characters' Voices Sing and Speak of these things, are we paying any attention at ALL?
No comments:
Post a Comment