Quilts and Thoughts…

Posted By margaret on February 14, 2009

If you’ve visited the multimedia page on this blog recently you may have noticed a new category, poetry. If you’ve never visited the multimedia page and accessed the player I urge you to click on the Multimedia Player on the horizontal bar beneath the banner. The Music category holds mp3 files which you may access while you visit any of the blog pages. Movies about quilting or interests of quilters may be found under the category Movies and likewise for the new category, Poetry.

Below is a quilter’s husband’s explanation of the inspiration for his movie, Tears in the Trees. I hope you’ll enjoy this one as well as others he has produced; they reside in the movies category.

His thoughts:

Quilters like poets, authors, composers, painters, and others artists have an intrinsic need to create. Not only do they create, inspire, and reveal but also bring comfort and security to the people they love. We all need our security blanket or quilt. What can be more comforting the wrapping oneself around a quilt that brings both physical and emotional warmth.

In the poem The Leaves, the poet makes a metaphorical reference about leaves that evoke the same emotion.

The North Wind is calling, is calling,
And we must whirl round and round,
And then, when our dancing is ended,
We’ll make a warm quilt for the ground.

Tears in the Trees is an amalgamation of inspirational sights, sounds, music, and poetry. The indescribable beauty of the fall foliage defiles all words. Perhaps, only the poet can truly evoke the emotions and imaginary of the autumn season. The heart must also feel what we see with our eyes. Combing seeing with our eyes, feeling with our heart, hearing the sounds of a gifted composer, you can get a glimpse of inspirational nature of the autumn season. The camera captures the sights. The poet captures the emotion. The composer captures the sounds. The listener hopefully captures the inspiration of the autumn season.

Fall is my favorite season of the year; this is true as far back as I can remember. Every autumn my wife and I turn into leaf peepers. Is it any wonder that her web and blog sites reflect our love of the colors of the fall foliage? It is interesting to note that the colors of fall are the same colors that reflect warm and are visually active on the color wheel.

I like all four season of the year. In every sense of the word, each season echoes, to me, the circle of life.

Spring— a renewal and a new birth of life.
Summer— a growing and frocking in youthful new adventures.
Fall— a maturing of looking backing and remembering, As well as looking forward to the future with anticipation. The acceptance and inevitability of our own mortality of ourselves as well as our love ones.
Winter— a quite time of reflection and acceptance of the physical and looking forward to the spiritual rebirth of spring.

Tears in the Trees may be interpreted on many levels. Perhaps the falling leaves represent tears of both sadness as well as happiness and perhaps the many colors are that of the many people that have enriched our lives. No one interpretation is better than the other. It is…what it is… on one level; however, there are many layers and each layer can sever it’s own purpose. Melancholy as well as cheer, joy, and happiness can coexist together.

The original music was composed by Jimmy G. which he express his thoughts on his composition. “I’m not sure if the music reflects exactly what I felt, however, I wrote from the heart of what I felt and wanted to ‘say’.” The video borrows its title from his composition. The music by itself is truly inspirational. Listen for each individual instrument that adds it’s own unique quality to the composition. I am especially moved by the sound of the acoustic guitar.

Song Title: Tears of the Forest (Faster version)

Instruments: piano, strings, oboe, clarinet, orchestra bass, harp, acoustic guitar
Time: Medium Tempo, soft, orchestrated melody

The poems in the video are written by the following:
Autumn Fires by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Leaves by anonymous

Recited by Sherman E. Walgren, whose photo appears in the movie, Poet Laureate of the USS Northampton reunion association.

Photography and special effects by Margaret Bucklew. Photograph location include. Maplewood Cemetery and surrounding location in Harrison, Arkansas as well as locations in Vermont and New Hampshire.

Video produced and edited by Phillip Bucklew chiseledincloth.com

Special thanks (to the 90 years young) Sherman E. Walgren affectionately known as “Sail Easy.” He has especially enriched our lives. “Sail Easy” served aboard the USS Northampton with my uncle Ernest Dean Parsons.

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