Song for our kids\' godmother

 

Song for our kids' godmother

[Original Chinese Verse:紮紮兄弟幹媽讚]

(2013-10-20）

Our kids have godmother- 

Sarah as a composer, 

Has no much interest in modern tonal music,

But loves to write joyfully in the style of Baroque.

Classical music works are so elegant ,

Which my light verse poems cannot compare with.

So far Sarah published two CDs,

With the effort of a decade.

'A Glimpse of Heaven' is a set of string quartet works,

Fifteen pieces of melody fly over mountain and canyon.

Her most recent work is a violin concerto，

'Ora e Sempre– Always & Forever' is indeed always and forever.

Sarah originally was not trained as composer,

She studied medical in Ithaca .

Then she moved to Southern California to do cancer research in Salk Institute,

And settled down there as professional doctor.

Nothing more wonderful than being doctor to save lives and restore people's health,

But even more wonderful miracle came to her.

With melodies falling from sky here and there,

God said 'You can compose!', she heard.

Sarah believes in God,

She always does what God let her do.

When melodies fills her mind,

She sits down and writes them down. 

Sarah lives in Southern California,

Where we actually met her.

At that time our James just started to learn cello,

So we found Sarah as his mentor at weekend.

James' mom managed his cello learning,

At that time,cello was taller than his height.

How could he express his feelings without basic skills?

His cello playing was just like sawing woods in quiet forest.

Sarah taught James Bach cello suites number one,

My ears were both almost cut off when James began to play.

However, Sarah said he did very well, 

And with potential of being a future Yo-Yo Ma.

What Sarah said scared James' mom,

Because she could not figure out how a small pond could hold a whale.

Sarah's words also worried me,

Because I didn't expect a duckling could live on trees.

Art Practice to our family is like blind walking,

We were really unclear on what to do.

It looks like a cicada climbing high on tree,

breathing wind and drinking dew and singing until the end.

With thousands of candidates as future Yo-Yo Ma,

Maybe only one horse(Ma) will actually gallop in the music field.

Today James looks like Yo-Yo indeed,

But tomorrow he will be another me almost for sure.

Anyway, as parents we worried a lot,

How can I afford a genius at our average home?

Whatever did Sarah praise,

We didn't increase much investment on James.

I crossed ocean and went back to work in China in 2005,

In the next year, I came back to US to move my family.

When kids were ready to fly to China,

Sarah quickly decided to become god mom of kids.

Time flied fast and flowers blossomed ten times,

We moved back to Northern California.

In past years during summer and winter breaks,

Sarah always came To visit us.

During staying,she still played cello with James,

We still listened to CDs by Yo-Yo Ma.

What happened in the past became good stories to chat about,

We also thanks God for let us find each other in this way.

The day before yesterday, Sarah came to Bay Area for a business trip,

And stayed in a hotel near SFO Airport.

We drave there to meet her,

Joshua asked me to speed up until arriving .

Before we said goodbye and left to home,

Joshua's mom told Sarah that I also got triggered by something.

I spent much time to write light verses everyday ，

Which bothered her and kids quite much.

In life we keeps accumulating till release,

Just like Big Bang happens anyway.

Whatever happened to Sarah

Might also applies to Me this time.

By writing light verses, I can have fun to memorize what happened in the past,

For example, I just wrote down this story.

As long as God allow a cicada to sing,

Cicada will just keeping praise God even though she/he breaths wind and drinks dew.