Breakfast on the patio / July
July 15, 2008
Returned from morning run with j.v at 6:30 this morning anticipating m.a would have breakfast ready on the back patio. She did. Ten minutes later we were alone and she was weeding the flower bed on the west side of the patio. The position of the mid-July sun back-lights hundreds or thousands of insects & spider webs across the entire yard to the east. She was pulling an herb or some seasoning from the pot to my side. The smell of the herb lingered in the air around us. The scent of this herb that I can’t name that variously recalls both summertime salads and wintertime soups being cut up on Sunday mornings by m.a registered differently this morning like lilac out of season. This scent this morning mixed with the scent of garden dirt, mulch and m.a. This familiar, warm, scent of nourishment so freely tended to by m.a for me for so many years blended with the scent of my run and of m.a and I was aroused unexpectedly and wanted to give her everything I’m not capable of.
About me…
July 8, 2008
New Blogger
I am passionate about the spiritual journey, classical music (with a violin concerto fetish), world politics, American politics, fitness and unraveling the social chaos of extreme posturing. I have other musical tastes that cut through sections of both rock and dance. Nirvana rocks. So does Dvorak.
Come on! Vonnegut isn’t cynical. Vonnegut so definitively explores the spiritual chaos of personal cynicism that we see through to truth and light.
Discovering Sibelius
July 2, 2008
Barnes & Noble duped me into a buy two get one free classical music cd purchase about six weeks ago. I ended up picking up four violin concerto performances by Joshua Bell meaning that my $3.oo coffee cost me a total of $53.oo. Walking through the second set of doors into the main aisle at Barnes & Noble once felt like going to church. They haven’t changed, so I suppose that it’s I who have grown less spiritual over the years.
One of the cds I picked up in May includes the Sibelius violin concerto. Thank you, Julie, the birth of your son led me to the four hour road trip in late June where the Sibelius finally truly reached me. It’s been years since I’ve fully processed a new piece the way I’ve come to own this one. What was it, 2002/2003, when I discovered the Prokofiev concerto?
Julie, Isac, Tony, Barnes & Noble, Joshua Bell: All five had to come together for my discovery of Sibelius to be complete. Peace, love & brotherhood to each of you.
I just discovered that you can hear the first movement by Christian Ferras on YouTube. If it reaches you- reaches your soul- , please, go to Barnes & Noble or Amazon.
For heaven sake go buy a copy. People devote entire lifetimes developing the skills you’ll hear for free on YouTube. Please pay them.
