One day, I will get around to aligning my thoughts and reality to this piece of music in more than casual manner. Until then, it remains serenely unchallenged in its place as my favorite classical arrangement. I have always called it my “Autistic Anthem”, Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings, Op. 11, as conducted by Bernstein:
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Everyone says we need better role models. But who is sharing role models? Not that sharing them would change much… except to explicate that people ARE still willing to TRY to benefit one another AS they benefit themselves. That’s what life is supposed to be… if you improve the quality of life around you, where […]
There’s nothing quite like silence and stillness The moment in which there is nothing The space between breaths The quiet between thoughts A no-thing, a nothing, no-thing, nothing, . Listening to instrumental, meditative streams today, as the polite rejections continue pouring in. I’ve decided to check into pet grooming. It combines the things I enjoy […]
The bridge hums with life Trading song for the silence Time gently passing
TL;DR – They really think they have you now, Mr. Anderson. (The Kinks) This is a very nice piece of propaganda, but it IS propaganda. You do realize that there comes a point where vocal opposition without action becomes support, yes? For that matter, any vocal opposition without action is support. If not in the […]
I do not know how I missed this fellow all my life, but I’ve found him now and he’s freaking amazing. Obviously a stellar composer and guru of music theory and history, I found him deconstructing pop culture hits to showcase their music theory base; in this case, Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off”. Even if […]
Thanks to my daughter for this amazing recommendation. Karmic memory and a lot besides, I find this arrives in a good moment for many things… the usual meditations, memories of mudita, and the old moroseness that is long past moldering and gone. Somebody that I used to know, indeed. [youtube]8UVNT4wvIGY[/youtube] Lyrics: Now and then I […]
Posts are a bit sporadic of late, primarily as I’m too busy living to think about experiences, let alone post about them. Interesting how it happens, distraction; more often than not it’s the fleeting thought that I should post about X and then….. nothing. A quick ranking of “best and worst” for the last bit […]
Courtesy of Lala.Com: http://popup.lala.com/popup/504684680784454368 Lyrics: some are reaching few are there wandering from a heros chair some are scared to fly so high well this is how we have to try have no envy and no fear have no envy no fear brother brother we all see your hiding out so painfully see yourself come […]