Who has been one of the most important people in your life can you tell me about him or her?

I am going to change this question around a bit…….as it is difficult to pick one single person who has been most important in my life - there have been many people for many reasons on many levels. I would like to change the question to the song that has meant most to me in my life. I had occasion this week to listen to a CBC radio production which highlighted the passing of Leon Bibb in Vancouver at the age of 93. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/leon-bibb-di es-1.3287509 <http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbi a/leon-bibb-dies-1.3287509> When Dad & I were young new marrieds, we went to see a performance on ‘Jaques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris’ at the original old Arts Club Theatre…. the final song in the performance, with the company of four including Leon Bibb, was ‘If we only have love’.

Never before or since has a song so moved me. Listening to it today, forty plus years on, it has the same power. Leon Bibb had an amazing melliflous sound - if you have scanned the link above you’ll know that he also had a pretty amazing life. The link to th e CBC program I heard is: http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thesundayedition/tim-flannery-on-cli mate-change-in-praise-of-the-humble-donkey-tribute-to-leo n-bibb-justice-lynn-smith-1.3296242/a-lifetime-of-song-stru ggle-and-activism-a-tribute-to-leon-bibb-1.3296588 <http:// www.cbc.ca/radio/thesundayedition/tim-flannery-on-climate-c hange-in-praise-of-the-humble-donkey-tribute-to-leon-bibb -justice-lynn-smith-1.3296242/a-lifetime-of-song-struggle-a nd-activism-a-tribute-to-leon-bibb-1.3296588> After the short intro. is part of ‘ If you only have love’ … if that is all you listen to, please do…… Love from Mum.

If we only have love Then tomorrow will dawn And the days of our years Will rise on that morn If we only have love To embrace without fears We will kiss with our eyes We will sleep without tears If we only have love With our arms open wide Then the young and the old Will stand at our side If we only have love Love that's falling like rain Then the parched desert earth Will grow green again If we only have love For the hymn that we shout For the song that we sing Then we'll have a way out If we only have love We can reach those in pain We can heal all our wounds We can use our own names If we only have love We can melt all the guns And then give the new world To our daughters and sons If we only have love Then Jerusalem stands And then death has no shadow There are no foreign lands If we only have love We will never bow down We'll be tall as the pines Neither heroes nor clowns If we only have love Then we'll only be men And we'll drink from the Grail To be born once again Then with nothing at all But the little we are We'll have conquered all time All space, the sun, and the stars.