Episode 1: Carol of the Wings, Vintage Folk Patchwork Tale
Empowered by the ethnic roots music, Carol of the Bells (Shchedryk) vibes the grandeur of human feelings, whether happy or sad.
While Canada Goose can't sing, it is Swallow who can do it for both of them with witty irony and grace!
Carol of the Wings, Vintage Folk Patchwork Tale by Lana M. 'Rochel is a contemporary fable. Balancing between the black humour and epic, it tells an offbeat story of love and betrayal. Easy-going, rhyming, and musical, the fable debates the moral questions.
With the quotes of Jacques Deval, Aristotle, Maya Angelou , and 21 wise proverbs from all over the world, Carol of the Wings delivers the global idea of humanity and justice.
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There was a real story of a man from Canada and a woman from Ukraine behind the fable.
In a sense unique, the story is quite typical for most international couples who struggle to reunite with their spouse from another country.
Why is that some are "the masters in law" of others' life?
Hopefully, with humanity confronting Coronavirus, those in power will eventually understand that there cannot be "people over people." You cannot give a verdict on someone unless he is proved to be guilty, for there's only one life to live for each of us.
Live yours for full!
In the audio are used fragments of the Ukrainian Bell Carol (Carol of the Bells) - piano and instrumental cover version by Chelsey Joy.
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Find out the true story behind the fable:
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Audioscript:
CAROL OF THE WINGS, Vintage Folk Patchwork Tale by Lana M. 'Rochel
God loved birds and invented trees.
Man loved the birds and invented cages.
Jacques Deval
Canada goose worked like a horse, days and nights to make his living bites. Once in winter, consuming one of his two fours, decided he to take a chill, his will.
“Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or ‘god,” Aristotle thought. Thus, a mature, still good-looking feather guy tried to fish the only so as not to feel so lonely.
“Ding dong ding dong!” he heard the song, “From everywhere, filling the air…Shchedryk shchedryk, shchedrivochka, pryletila lastivochka.”
Whoa! He was confused: she wasn’t a goose! How come her voice and curves, and manners kept him amused?
“All birds of feather flock together,” told to himself Canada Goose unwilling to refuse
arousing sense of passion; that carving figure hun - a swallow in his chat room barn - was fun.
The proverb says, “Be on alert, like the red ant that moves with its claws open.” They did try both to see the worst first, however, ended up by having no alert, instead – they got goosebumps each day or night, as Goose popped up in “yesterdays” of hers, while Swallow would be filling his “tomorrows” with bright trills. The globe wheels! And soon, he crossed the ocean to ring her foot, and boldly promised happy ever after. No laughter!
The Irish say, “It’s not a fish until it’s on the bank,” and their bank was full of grazing geese
awaiting bargain. Some wise men add that “Step by step one goes very far” (if not the ruling body!).
Hey, “You can’t be lost on road that is straight” unless “It’s much of law, and little justice.” Being jubilant, small Swallow took a chance to please the mighty flock, which claimed to be
protecting Goose from every evil on the earth, supporting interests of the lakes, increasing riches –
loud speeches.
She sang her usual song, “Ding dong ding dong…without end, their joyful tone to every home. Ah!... Ding dong, ding dong… Shchedryk shchedryk,shchedrivochka, pryletila lastivochka.”
“You never know how a cow catches a rabbit,” they say in Holland. (Really?) Why? –
That’s why! Surprise, surprise! Canada Geese saw graceful swallow as a specie from ‘distant garden of the poor, a black-white bird unable to lay golden eggs on their land, my friend.
They said she hadn’t satisfied the chief she would be likely to have left the lakes soon after she had visited her match. Without search, Goose was the one inviting Swallow! In fact, presumption of innocence was smashed to pieces, and his opinion was laboriously ignored. Oh, Lord!
“Who can’t pretend can’t govern,” the French remark here, “C'est la vie.”
“A barleycorn is better than a diamond to a rooster,” the English posit – peeps experienced in life, as well as Swallow and Canada Goose, but not Canada Geese, who did refuse to recognize their buddy’s right to have her as a guest. Decision made: he’s better off without... Holy cow!
“Beware of man’s shadow and bee’s sting” if you are not a king. Despite Canada Goose presented her a ring, nobody thinks it gives them right to stick together having Timmy’s and listen to the call of loons, while others say that “Justice once delayed is justice being denied;” all right, all right!
Can anybody see there’s something wrong? It didn’t take the jury long to come to their verdict, only a few days. No interviews, no extra questions from the flock. They were sure hanging
heavy lock on big guy’s door.
Was Goose too short for them ‘get noticed or seemed not that well-feathered, therefore, ignored? Oh, well, as one of Geese commented once, “It’s not about flood control or any major matter of the breed; thus, matters of the heart with all their trills are not priorities to us.”
Okay, “You can’t wake up a person who’s pretending ‘be asleep,” as people’s wisdom says, and it occurs, “Where might is being the master, justice is the servant,” eh?
Nonetheless, “Where there are poor, there are rich. But where there’s justice, they are all
brothers,” the Arab tell the truth of generations almost from the times the Earth was born.
But it’s been ages since Canada Goose picked up the phone to listen to his darling’s song. Gave up on happiness or gone to make more loonies so as to please the flock and rock?
“The fool who owns an ox is seldom recognized as fool,” advises folk – and, “You can cage the bird but you can’t make it sing.”
In solitude, Canada Goose might think whatever, however, Swallow would, “better be a dog than a caged lion,” like some are used.
A famous figure was Aesop, who thought, “[Not] only… feathers…make fine birds.”
Should be the line where story ends; hence, “[a] bird never flew on one wing” – one wing dance has no sense.
With that being said, it is so sad to know “[a] hero only could appear when ‘tiger’s dead.” Though, Maya Angelou once spread a clever word about ‘bird that “doesn’t’ sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.” So long!
Try listening to ‘lonely swallow’s chimes once your mind roams beyond the scenes and figures vanish, leaving space for ‘bare soul with scars to go on stage and sing a hymn to love,
“La da da da da, la da da da da…Hark how the bells, sweet silver bells, all seem to say, throw cares away…Shchedryk shchedryk, sgchedrivochka, pryletila lastivochka.”
Proverbs and Quotes (used in “Carol of the Wings”)
1. A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
Maya Angelou
2. God created birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages. Jacques Deval
3. Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. Aristotle
4. Birds of feather flock together.
5. Be on the alert like the red ant that moves with its claws wide open. (Ugandan proverb)
6. It’s not a fish until it’s on the bank. (Irish proverb).
7. Step by step one goes very far. (Traditional proverb)
8. You cannot be lost on a road that is straight.
9. Justice delayed is justice denied. (English proverb)
10.It’s much of law, and little justice
12.You never know how a cow catches a rabbit (Dutch proverb)
13.Who can’t pretend can’t govern (French proverb)
14.The fool who owns an ox is seldom recognized as a fool. (South African proverb)
15.“C'est la vie.” (French) English translation: It is life.
16.A hero only appears once the tiger is dead. (Burmese proverb)
17.You can cage a bird but you can’t make it sing. (French proverb)
18.A bird never flew on one wing
19.It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds. Aesop.
20.A barley corn is better than a diamond to a rooster. (English proverb)
21.You can’t wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. (Navajo proverb)
22.Better to be a dog than a caged lion. (Arab proverb)
23.Beware of man’s shadow and a bee’s sting. (Burmese proverb)
24.Where there are poor, there are rich. But where there is justice, they are all brothers. (Arab proverb)
25.Where might is the master, justice is the servant. (German proverb)
The traditional Ukrainian Bell Carol has become an essential part of Christmas tradition all over the world. Carol of the Bells is a popular Christmas Carol composed by Ukrainian composer Mykola Leontovych in 1914 with lyrics by Peter J. Wilhousky. The song is based on a Ukrainian folk chant called "Shchedryk."
