Missy Higgins: You have opened up a new door; you can steer

This song featured in a beautiful and moving story told in the comments of Gary’s post Kate Miller-Heidke doesn’t like to be ‘poked’. I’ve been looking at the lyrics…I can see why it would have touched so deeply on that night.

It’s fascinating to me how the lyrics to songs, or passages in a novel or poem, or even the scene of a film, can have so many meanings for the listeners, the readers, the viewers…the audience. There are so many more meanings than the author or writer or director or actor could ever have intended. Those meanings become part of the song or poem or film for us. In the telling of the stories associated with these we illuminate not only new ways to look at the created thing, but also we illuminate our selves for others. Since none of our experiences is entirely unique, telling these stories often evokes something universal, something shared by everyone.

I think this is why I feel compelled to write, why I felt compelled to start this blog. We are moved and inspired by the arts, and when that inspiration moves us to share our experiences, our stories, we participate in the inspiration. It’s a beautiful feeling to learn you’ve moved someone with words you’ve written. It’s a powerful beauty to see someone inspired to share their own moving experience, to participate in and expand the beauty and inspiration and move others. It’s the kind of amplification that makes the world a better place to be in.

It’s also fascinating that the genesis of this song occurred in an open space under a starlit sky, and the experience shared took place in an open space, under a starlit sky. ~ For you, Melita.