Today I picked up this link from Norm Strauss (via my friend Jan Fischer), for his song "The Immigrant".
"This land is so big you can finally be yourself.
Let these open fields free your captive soul
Let these open fields free your captive soul
or let those wild mountains
swallow you whole.
Follow your heart, even to unfamiliar places.
Follow your heart, writing your story on these pages
The land that I called 'Father'
still comes to me in dreams
and sometimes I wonder
where would I be?"
still comes to me in dreams
and sometimes I wonder
where would I be?"
While the song is set in a different place and time, some of the lines rang clear for me - telling our story, as well as that of my grandparents. "Follow your heart, even to unfamiliar places." "Starting over at 46 (47) years old", "and we held our breaths and hoped that all the stories told were true, a frontier land with promises of more..."
I've lived between these lines. Thank you Norm Strauss.
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