Anything I was thinking of posting today has dropped into insignificance after listening to the Gesualdo Six singing Byrd's Lullaby 'My Sweet Little Baby'. (Yes, there are only five singing, no, I don't know why)
I was actually looking for something different, but came across this and it is so beautiful I looked no further for anything.
A friend of a friend has just had a baby in... let's just say it's a country that's at war.
That's nothing special (sadly); babies are born in war zones everywhere, all the time. But I have seen a picture of this newborn baby, asleep, innocent of all knowledge.
oh, oh, my heart... it's when the abstract becomes real, when the crowds become individuals...
The full text for this lullaby concerns Herod's slaughter of the Innocents...
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