Beati Be Behati

This song keeps playing in my head. Beati Quorum Via by an Irish composer. Now I know why. It started with this girl: Behati Prinsloo. She hails from Namibia and is of the moment model. Her given name just popped--and popped in my head. I have this strange feeling that whenever I read or hear 'strange' or 'been-so-long-unheard' words, they stuck. I still have issues with the likes of rantang, adalah (as an opening of a sentence), urgenitas ("invented by a writer"), and so on. The same goes with Behati. At first, what a name. But then what beauty! :)

(Stella McCartney SS08, photo TeenVogue)

Then I discovered this song I got from Anuna. Back then the Irish group gave it for free like six years ago. I wasn't into that song until one day my head repeated the words Behati and Beati. On and on. So I gave it a try and fell in love with it completely. Soft and soothing yet I hadn't known what it meant nor I could transcribe it.

So two days ago I had a eureka moment:

Beati quorum via integra est
qui ambulant in leger Domine

The 3.18 minute song bears 'only' two psalm lines. Just as Os Iusti (by Mallandrino?) that Paragita friends and I used to sing. Beautiful songs.

As for Behati, blessed (beati) be.

(Marc by Marc Jacobs SS 08, photo TeenVogue)