Anatomy of a Composition - Ode to Wonder

I wish I could sing. In fact, I wish I had any real musical talent. Don’t get me wrong, I played musical instruments in various adolescent settings; show band, marching band, and even sang in ensembles and musicals, but I never really could “feel” the music. It was always just a mechanical exercise of finding the correct notes. As presented, an Ode must be sung, but I am not a singer, and so this will have to fall short of a true Ode.

But to wonder, to look up, to look out, to gaze past a horizon, and to wonder what is beyond; that is a human gift. We all have such different circumstances, but we all have the capacity to look out, to take in to terrestrial and ephemeral world that is around us, to experience it with our senses and to either grow or share what is learned.

That wonder, that innate curiosity to piece the puzzle together, that compulsion to shed an old skin and to scratch from the earth something new, that is the one worth singing.

Yes, I wish I could sing, but for now I will shoot.

Anatomy of a Composition - Ode to Wonder

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Anatomy of a Composition - Ode to Wonder