A Reason for Hope
It was like traveling back in time, watching John Sebastian’s folk music documentary on PBS: An old black and white video of Judy Collins singing Turn, Turn, Turn, another video of Harry Belafonte crooning Jamaica Farwell, Trini Lopez singing If I Had a Hammer.
Old songs rolled on: Where have all the flowers gone, Michael Row the Boat Ashore, Blowin’ in the Wind. An aging Barry McGuire, standing on a stage, bald with a grey mustache, singing The Eve of Destruction.
The documentary ended with Roger McGuinn, no longer young, singing, There is a season and a time for every purpose under heaven…a time to gain, a time to lose, a time to reap, a time to sow, a time for love, a time for hate, a time for peace, I swear it’s not too late. Those words came from the Book of Ecclesiastes, written twenty-five hundred years ago.
The nation that gave us those folk songs is now a memory – America’s a different country today. But the words still touch a chord. The roots are still there. A reason for hope.
A Reason for Hope
It was like traveling back in time, watching John Sebastian’s folk music documentary on PBS: An old black and white video of Judy Collins singing Turn, Turn, Turn, another video of Harry Belafonte crooning Jamaica Farwell, Trini Lopez singing If I Had a Hammer.
Old songs rolled on: Where have all the flowers gone, Michael Row the Boat Ashore, Blowin’ in the Wind. An aging Barry McGuire, standing on a stage, bald with a grey mustache, singing The Eve of Destruction.
The documentary ended with Roger McGuinn, no longer young, singing, There is a season and a time for every purpose under heaven…a time to gain, a time to lose, a time to reap, a time to sow, a time for love, a time for hate, a time for peace, I swear it’s not too late. Those words came from the Book of Ecclesiastes, written twenty-five hundred years ago.
The nation that gave us those folk songs is now a memory – America’s a different country today. But the words still touch a chord. The roots are still there. A reason for hope.