Category Music

Pale Reflections

Pale Reflections ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength,  Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Shadows of trees, which do not exist, extinguished by sudden, bright lights. Four musicians, in white, tux jackets, take the stage, like waiters to serve us some succulent moments, Beethoven. I wonder about their histories and any tales to […]

Grown Large

Grown Large ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength,  Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ In too many places we are led by children grown large before they learned to share, grown large, still believing the the myth. Mine! Neither want, need nor knowledge hold sway. The fluid world of young children, constantly shifting […]

Neverending

Neverending ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength,  Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Will we Grow, grow up, grow old, grow old together in all weather? Woven, weaving a tapestry, joined, cleaving, or a shroud, grieving, giving, dying, living out loud. Friend, lover, mover, cover, shielding all, memories times, signs. Lightening, thunder, torn […]

Ichi-go Ichi-e

Ichi-go Ichi-e ~~~~~ It is time to put people over politics, country over capitulation and world over wealth. ~~~~~ Deep shining sun, sea arrayed earth, cold mantle, warm life. Within mountains, hidden depths. boiling fecundity. Earth sky schism, union of all, apart without separation. No center, no edge, universes dance, spin, alone yet unified. Self-contained, […]

Onward to Begin

Onward to Begin ~~~~~   It is time to put people over politics, country over capitulation and world over wealth. ~~~~~ Stop. Listen to the world in all its fecund profusion. Block out the noise, our daily whirl, which leads only to confusion. Stop, now. Put away our toys; they cannot, in most ways, begin […]

None So Blind

None So Blind ~~~~~   It is time to put people over politics, country over capitulation and world over wealth. ~~~~~ Spinning stories, so I may begin to understand. Walking within a sheltered wood, artist’s view, as pine needles slip beneath my steps and recall, soft, changing winds, tires on newly-fallen rain. Ideas from distant […]

The Spaces Between

The Spaces Between ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength,  Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Shall we talk then, shall we sing, discuss Rachmaninoff, analyze Proust, remembrance of future things? Will you tell me no one knows what tomorrow brings? As musicians fingers fly, over strings, along the keys; quickly, quickly, come listen. […]

Ere We Fall

Ere We Fall ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength,  Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Who knows what we’ve lost in the cause of war? Music, art, novels, plays, poems, films and more. Bach, DaVinci, Cassatt, Monet, fodder of kings, Shakespeare, Elliott, Beethoven all gone missing. Would we find saviors numbered with the […]

These Moments

These Moments ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength,  Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ All of the things we do and say, every place we choose to play, if working or not, stand or fall, all these moments define us all. ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength,  Diversity is Unity, Empathy is […]

Already Become?

~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength,  Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Rabid illness, rampant decrepitude, Narcissism, xenophobia lead us into paranoia and poverty, callous disregard. Pure greed, stolen chances in small steps, missive bites, bytes. Grabbing what? Anything they want, as though it is theirs by right or mystic rite. Cast your […]