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I love this story too... I play the tune on my fiddle :)

As I read your words Iā€™m sitting in the home where I was born on the other side of the continent from where I now live, just beyond the kitchen where my mother has the 9 lessons and carols service from Oxford blasting on the radio, and outside a goose has loosened himself from where he was frozen in the pond, and the juxtaposition of reading this story and hearing Christ stories in the background is just really making me smile right now.

Thank you for this beautiful story recounting, and those paintings are amazing... a merry returning of the light time to you

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Dec 24, 2022Liked by Sylvia V. Linsteadt

Sylvia, thank you (and your brother) for this beautiful song and story, story and song. Thank you also for gently calling attention towards the heart/soul teaching of the song (and away from the well-therapied brain) and also for your interpretations and preferences, Iā€™m grateful to receive them.

Iā€™ll be sharing this with my Scottish mum - Janet - who I think has lived this story, and continues to in some ways. Iā€™m inspired to explore expanding this story, based on hers...

So so grateful for this sharing of your lovely voice - may the blessings of the season be yours!

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Jan 2, 2023Liked by Sylvia V. Linsteadt

I love this so much. Thank you, Sylvia. I have been listening on repeat since I first heard it... it is connecting me with my beloved Scottish roots. I would love it if you created more music with your brother. Your voice with his strumming is heaven, and that with your sincerity and choice of lyric is wholesome medicine.

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Dec 26, 2022Liked by Sylvia V. Linsteadt

What a gift! Thank you Sylvia, so much, for this beautiful feminine evocative offering. Your voice is both healing and full of heart. Sending you many blessings during this tender season.

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Dec 29, 2022Liked by Sylvia V. Linsteadt

You were many blessed Sylvia, beautiful singing voice, gifted and passionate writer, intelligence and depth, beauty too.

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Dec 29, 2022Liked by Sylvia V. Linsteadt

Beautiful story and song! I love the paintings too and found Dobrontei Zoltan on instagram. If anyone else wants to see more - look for @kozarikata

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Dec 26, 2022Liked by Sylvia V. Linsteadt

Such a beautiful rendition of this song. Thank you so much Sylvia for sharing!

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How very beautiful! You have a lovely voice for this poignant melody and tale. Bright winter blessings to you and thank you for gifting us this tender co-creation. May Earth hold you and keep you.

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Dec 24, 2022Liked by Sylvia V. Linsteadt

What a lovely deep gift on this eve. Both the pure flowing musical form, and the evocative narrative coloration. mmmmm.

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Winterā€™s eve blessings to you dear Sylvia and to all šŸ•Æ

Thank you for this beautiful ensorcelling story-song. What a gift you and your brother created. It was so wonderful reading your lovingly stitched and sewn together piece on this tale and the deeper knowledge beneath. Iā€™m nestling into ā€œthe language of heart and of soulā€. šŸ§”

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Entrancing. ā¤ļø Thank you!

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You have a beautiful voice and I enjoyed the context you gave for the song, especially the point on women's desire and the woman being the seeker in this story.

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Aug 7, 2023Liked by Sylvia V. Linsteadt

I wanted to learn more about this ballad, and that brought me to you, Sylvia. Thank you so much, for your music, your voice and all the passion you put into it, and the additional explanations. I listened to your song before reading the article, and I'm glad I did it that way. Because I didn't stop there, I also found the morning star woman, and that is getting me started on a whole new and unexpected path. Please keep giving voice to your stories, bringing them to libe like that. Thank you also for bringing a bit of winter to this hot summer. I'm glad my search brought me to you.

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