A Shared Motif

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A Shared Motif_A Portrait of the Shaw Family-POEM

A Shared Motif (The Shaw Family)-VOICE&TRIO

A portrait of the Shaw Family

To be a person is to be a gift,
Given in love. For each of us receive
The gift of being from another and we lift
Each other into light with every glance,
Given and returned in this long dance.
We have become ourselves through fathers, mothers,
All whose traces, and whose grace-notes, leave
Us all the more the people that we are.

Playing for others, in our turn, we hear
Our own tune, in a new key, played by others.
So with this family: each at their ease,
Relaxed within themselves, and yet aware
Of one another, as a simple grace
Sounds its soft motif through the quiet air.

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A Shared Motif_A Portrait of the Shaw Family-POEM

A Shared Motif (The Shaw Family)-VOICE&TRIO

A Shared Motif

A portrait of the Shaw Family To be a person is to be a gift, Given in love. For each of us receive The gift of being from another and we lift Each other into light with every glance, Given and returned in this long dance. We have become ourselves through fathers, mothers, All whose traces, and whose grace-notes, leave Us all the more the people that we are. Playing for others, in our turn, we hear Our own tune, in a new key, played by others. So with this family: each at their ease, Relaxed within themselves, and yet aware Of one another, as a simple grace Sounds its soft motif through the quiet air.