Today’s the day I have known was coming for awhile. It is the first day accompanied by cricket song which means that autumn is coming and summer is drawing to a close. The sky is slightly overcast, the temperature is 68 and when the sun does peek out it is not with the white hot intensity of summer but a softer, more golden light. Everything green is turning a more yellow green as the season gets ready to change. My mood is also one of anticipation as is often the case with change. First the sounds of summer change to autumn, the light changes, the colors of the garden change, then my oldest daughter is going to preschool for the first time and the youngest will have her first swimming lessons. Summer will be over soon and it’s not that just the season is changing, but it would seem that life is changing too.
Sunrise, Sunset Lyrics- it seems appropriate, though my mood is not quite so drastic and my kids are still small- thank goodness! But time sure does fly…
(Tevye)
Is this the little girl I carried?
Is this the little boy at play?
(Golde)
I don’t remember growing older
When did they?
(Tevye)
When did she get to be a beauty?
When did he get to be so tall?
(Golde)
Wasn’t it yesterday
When they were small?
(Men)
Sunrise, sunset
Sunrise, sunset
Swiftly flow the days
Seedlings turn overnight to sunflowers
Blossoming even as we gaze
(Women)
Sunrise, sunset
Sunrise, sunset
Swiftly fly the years
One season following another
Laden with happiness and tears
(Tevye)
What words of wisdom can I give them?
How can I help to ease their way?
(Tevye)
Now they must learn from one another
Day by day
(Perchik)
They look so natural together
(Hodel)
Just like two newlyweds should be
(Perchik & Hodel)
Is there a canopy in store for me?
(All)
Sunrise, sunset
Sunrise, sunset
Swiftly flow the days
Seedlings turn overnight to sunflowers
Blossoming even as we gaze
Sunrise, sunset
Sunrise, sunset
Swiftly fly the years
One season following another
Laden with happiness and tears
