Calm down --- here's "The Road Home"

Here's a peaceful start to the day, a lovely virtual version of Stephen Paulus's "The Road Home" performed and released during Pride Month 2020 by Aftershock, an a cappella ensemble of the Gay Mens Chorus of Los Angeles.

The piece was commissioned by the Dale Warland Singers during 2001 and the Minneapolis-based composer (1949-2014) adapted as the melody a tune from "The Southern Harmony Songbook" of 1835.

Paulus (left) and Browne

The words are by his friend and colleague Michael Dennis Browne, poet and librettist, who is, by the way, a University of Iowa graduate, now professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota.

The precise nature of the road the song conjures up is entirely up to you.