Are You Out There?

Sitting in a quiet café today waiting for a friend to arrive made me feel strange or out of place.. It hit me the reason why I started feeling uncomfortable was because there wasn’t the sound of music or the noise of people voices telling stories. The Simon & Garfunkel song “Sound Of Silence”, entered my head and hearing in it in my imagination lifted my spirit. As we all know with all the dark clouds and stormy situations in the world through out time, some human and some in nature in the middle of it all a song can lift ones spirits. Storytelling and song is as old as human culture I guess. Many societies have long-established storytelling and song traditions. The deal with stories, and song performances thereof, function is to entertain as well as educate. Plato said, “Those who tell the stories rule society.” I would say that would also apply to song. So I would like to thank all the wonderful musicians, songwriters and storytellers on chordie who take the time to post their songs and poems for continuing that tradition. What I’m thinking is there must be people who read these posts on chordie who have never posted, that write and play songs.

So, if you're reading this and your one of those it would be great to see you become a presence on here.