Listen With Your Heart

Imagine a very small girl listening to a song and being entranced by the music. She has no understanding of the movie it comes from. She only hears the words, feels the tune sinking into her being and in that instant it becomes a part of her forever.

Music is an important part of this child’s life, but not this kind of music. She will spend years playing the piano without ever playing it. She will hear it playing in her head again and again on nearly every milestone in her life and sometimes in between. Yet she will never find all the words, nor the music when she wants it, because she does not remember its name, or perhaps she never knew it.

Later, as her own baby grows inside her, she searches for this song whenever she has the chance, asking over and over again and getting only shrugging shoulders, or strange looks from people who think she is just pregnant and overly emotional. No one else ever seems to have heard it, or found it as unforgettable.

Even later, as she helps a friend who is dying of cancer, she thinks of this song, but by now knows to keep it to herself. Still it runs through her head and speaks to her in ways no other song ever has.

And tonight as she contemplates the beauty of a new life just now entering this world, it fills her head and heart once more. Only tonight, as she is taking a shower, she realizes she might find it on the internet.

Just in time it seems. And though the movie means little to her, the song is a lifetime of dreaming and loving and being connected by the words and tune of Dimtri Tiomkin.

This is a link, if you are interested. (I would listen to it without looking at the pictures. Hear it the way that little girl did so many years ago.)


　http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOVFbsHDgd0