mamamusings: April 29, 2004

peace must be our goal

Last night I attended the fourth-grade spring concert at my sons’ elementary school. It was the first such event that I’ve been to since we got a digital camcorder as a gift (thanks, Dad!), so I’ve been playing with iMovie this morning.

For family members and other folks affiliated with the school, I’ve made a “web-friendly” (meaning tiny and highly compressed) full-length QuickTime version of the movie . Click here to see it streamed (could be slow, depending on server load), or right-click and choose “save target to disk” here to download it directly to disk and play it locally—it’s a 42MB file. (If you want the higher-quality, uncompressed version on DVD, let me know).

For those with less patience for home movies of kids, especially those you don’t know, here’s a small QuickTime clip of the kids playing their recorders and then singing a verse from a song called “Peace Must Be Our Goal.”

Given the state of the world today, this song—sung by such innocents—touched me deeply. These kids are too young to be drafted, but they’re more than halfway to that age. Will their world be more peaceful than ours? As a parent who doesn’t ever want to send her sons off to war, I can only hope so.