Finding hope in hard times

The UK election result crashed through my news barriers. Oh, crap.

This scary turn reminds me of a song that helped me in an earlier ugly time, when I was stunned in certainty of imminent nuclear annihilation.

What can you do with each moment of your life
But love til you’ve loved it away?

Bob Franke: Thanksgiving Eve.

( The lyrics )

Three ways to hear it (hoping one of these links survives):

• Bob Franke performs with Chamber Orchestra Kremlin inside a nuke-proof bunker in Moscow

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• Franke writes from a Christian tradition, so it’s no surprise Amidon Choral Music arranges the song for SATB, with full recording and lyrics

• More sonorous version from Irish singer Janet Holmes 2004 record, Road to the West

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