Sila Blume
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Two hundred and twenty-four years ago, Schubert
Today I continue to celebrate life in details but also in the joy that adds two men to the spirit of celebratory thankfulness — music. Besides the birthday of Philip Glass, there is plenty of reason for celebrating two hundred and twenty-four years today. Franz Peter Schubert, the young man who composed the “Winterreise” (Winter…
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Celebration Day — thirty-one
No other composer, no public figure has ever played consequential roles in my life like Phillip Glass. It all began with a physical, mental, perhaps even spiritual shock in 1982, when I sat in Carnegie Hall and experienced his music for the first time. That year I moved to Boston, where, not long after that,…
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Personal Lexicon — perfection
The most physically energizing, soulfully inspiring, and mentally exciting, is the life without aspiring perfection. Sila Blume
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Personal Lexicon
I intend to inhale, apply, and exhale love as love is, not as we define it. Sila Blume
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Celebration Day — twenty-nine
A memory becomes a celebration once it is unified with the present just what a memory is …like putting some gentle oil on my face for protection from the cold and winds that await me outside today; the same action which reminds me repeatedly of his mother doing the same on my son’s beautiful and…
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Celebration Day — twenty-eight
Each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it. John Cage (1912-1992), US-American Composer
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