Three siblings, a pilot, university professor, and marijuana grow operator, come together every Christmas. As always, their elderly parents present to them their thoughts in a recorded message. 
 
But this year’s missive causes Frederick, Maria and Marcus to flinch, intense sentiments resurface. 
 
But before they can react, they are distracted by the sudden disappearance of the family’s talkative parrot, Pock. Who has stolen him? Fingers are pointed. Gypsies are blamed.
 
As the diversion subsides, their thoughts shift back to the recordings. 
 
The Pilot and the Parrot is a story about the power of the message, and messenger, to impact the emotions of recipients. 
 
Scene 5 is all about how our world appears so complex. One wonders what cave people may say about that. Song 5 is a take on communication and connections developing from this. Is it all simply a work in progress, a story under construction?
 
Once a Simpler Place
 
The world was once
 A simpler place 
Way back when
Candles blazed
Embodiment
The human race
Kept us close
And in our place
 
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How things connect
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A way to express
 
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Lexical
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So sensible
 
The meanings of
The garden’s place
Lost in time
Without’a trace
I must confess
To being unsure
It’s snowing hard
In our war-ming world
 
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How things connect
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A way to express
 
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So sensible
 
The world’s at hand
As we connect
The media
What you’d expect
It’s digital
For all to see
A vote for all
Demo-cra-cy.
 
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How things connect
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A way to express
 
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Lexical
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So sensible.
 
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