Maya’s been singing her way through daily activities lately — walking to the bathroom (“going toooo the bath-rooom”), playing with Georgia, eating. It’s very cute; I always claim she’s got a good sense of melody. Sometimes it’s kind of operatic, other times cute and musical.
This evening, we went out for a late-night grocery run, and she found her missing sheep-baby (it’s a round stuffed sheep that has been imbued with sentimental value and baby-ness.
Maya is in the back seat, strapped into her carseat, playing with her sheep. Daddy starts the car and begins driving.
Maya: [singing] Sheepy Sheepy She-eepy
[some time later]
Daddy: [singing] Sheepy Sheepy She-eepy
Maya: [firmly] Daddy, don’t sing that song.
Daddy: Okay.
[some time later]
Daddy: Sheepy Sheepy She-eepy
Maya: Daddy, stop singing that song.
Daddy: Sorry. I won’t sing it anymore. [pause] I like that song, though. I heard you singing it. You know how you get a song stuck in your head? [silence] Do you ever get a song stuck in your head, Maya?
Maya: No. I have a song in my tummy.
Daddy: In your tummy?
Maya: Yes, in my tummy.
Daddy tries to imagine having a song in his tummy.
I had to think about it for a little while, and envision a song circulating around in my stomach, and I have to admit that I like the idea. I think it makes much more sense than having a song in your head — after all, if it comes out your mouth, where must it originate?
There FEELS like a profound something in this entry. “Singing our way through the day – through our daily activities.” Isn’t that the essence of Work Is Worship, on one level of comprehension?
I vaguely recall Zivar having a daughter who sang through the day. Which one was it? There were a few times when more than one child would be singing her song, completely absorbed in an action or thought, oblivious to all going on around her.
What else does Maya sing about or sing to accompany her movement and her actions? Dp all or most children sing? Is singing a natural response of the soul to the complexity of life? Is it an expression of the soul within us?
Chorus: There FEELS like a profound something in this entry. “Singing our way through the day – through our daily activities.”