Category: A Return To Innocence

A Return To Innocence, Reclamation

Squished-Up Happy

Candid Corvid Productions

She usually greatly disliked photos of herself – possibly becauss her youngest enjoyed catching her in extreme, playful expressions where her dimensions would become greatly distorted.

But her nervous tension over the subject diminished when she thought of the prospect of his features also being squished-up happy alongside her.

In fact, the thought made her laugh and smile.

A Return To Innocence, Reclamation, Songs

“That Man” (Song)

Candid Corvid Productions

By Athena Stairs, October 25, 2025

That man loves me
For once it’s real

That man loves me
With a heart of steel

You never know they’d say
With a jeer unconcealed

But that man’s worth
Is beyond repeal

And if you say
We haven’t got a chance

If you’d argue
Our circumstance

Well then friends you
Haven’t learned a thing

Of what makes a woman Queen
And a Man her King

—

Elden sass upon verdant grass melodies

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A Man's Journey, A Return To Innocence, Elden Ways, Featured Artists, Myths & Legends, Reclamation

(Stars – Eriks Esenvalds, Oregon Repertory Singers)

Candid Corvid Productions

Dr. Ethan Sperry, Artistic Director
Lisa Riffel, Assistant Conductor & Choir Manager
Naomi LaViolette, Accompanist

David Peterson, Producer & Editor

Stars
Music: Ēriks Ešenvalds
Lyrics: Sara Teasdale

Alone in the night
On a dark hill
With pines around me
Spicy and still

And a heaven full of stars
Over my head
White and topaz
And misty red;

Myriads with beating
Hearts of fire
The aeons
Cannot vex or tire;

Up the dome of heaven
Like a great hill
I watch them marching
Stately and still

And I know that I
Am honored to be
Witness
Of so much majesty