El Dia De Los Muertos

I know...morbid title, right? In Spanish, it means the Day of the Dead. It is a holiday celebrated primarily in Mexico, but our church has taken to observing it instead of/along with All Souls Day. It's a celebration of those who you've lost in your life.

In preparation for the service that day, our choir director found a perfect piece...haunting piece...He has a real knack for finding just the right piece of music. It's called Mata Del Anima Sola, and it has been haunting me for the last week. Here's a link to a group that did a fairly good rendition of the song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbN3AsHhTwE. The tenor solo is luring and haunting. The english transaltion is interesting...and it's had me pondering its meaning all week.

Tree of the soul lonely,
wide opening of the riverside long
now you will be able to say:
Here slept Cantaclaro.

With the whistle and the sting
of the twisting wind,
the dappled and violet dusk
quietly entered the corral.

The night, tired mare,
shakes her mane and black tail
above the riverside;
and, in its silence,
your ghostly heart is filled with awe.

Would love your thoughts on it's meaning...

In the meantime, I also found a somewhat gruesome website. I don't believe this stuff, but found it interesting that the deathclock says I'll be 95 when I die. How weird is it that I've had more than one palm reader/psychic's give me that exact same age... Check out http://www.deathclock.com/.

That's it for me today. I'm sorry it's been so long since I posted. It's been a very busy couple of weeks.