Happy Day 5 in my COVID-19 30-day creativity challenge, everyone! Here’s my first of two songs that I’ll come up with today to get me back on track. This is really more of a song-lette (songella?) – whatever it is that you call a mini-song. It’s not really finished, as I can see other verses coming in time, but for the purposes of this exercise, it’s good to go!
The first line – and part of the inspiration – comes from some friends. For the past several years (and I sure hope this year, too!), I’ve gotten together with 3 other women who I went to seminary with more than 30 years ago now. We enjoy an extended long-weekend together, usually in a house on a lake, basking in the grace of good friendship.
We’ve also established a few rituals that we’re sure to include in each weekend. One of them is to write poems following the form known as Renga. This is a collaborative form of poetry where each person writes a line without seeing what anyone else has written. It’s astounding the beauty that can come from them. (Equally, as I was reading some of them for inspiration, I was laughing out loud at some of the lines we’ve written.)
In a word, it’s a song about hope. May you keep hope during these days, friends.
A Librarian by Any Other Name 
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