Biographical
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February 13 1883
Around three in the afternoon, one hundred and thirty-eight years ago today, Dr. Friedrich Keppler established that the great master did not survive a heart attack. Friedrich Nietzsche completed the first part of his Thus Spoke Zarathustra in the “sacred hour of Wagner’s death”. After reading the news in the papers the next morning, he…
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Celebration Day — fourteen / Yukio Mishima
In 1925, on this day, January 14, the novelist Yukio Mishima was born as Kimitake Hiroaka, in Nagazumi-cho 2-chome, Yotsuya-ku, Tokyo City, Tokyo Prefecture, Empire of Japan In 1982, a Cutty Sark ad with a portrait of Philip Glass caught my eye. In his hand he held a bunch of music notes, and in the…
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A Requiem on Arrival
What happens to a newborn when touched, impressed, moved by the depth of music but without the release of tears? Where does the intensity land?
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One Hundred Days
Thank you! To the several hundreds that have graced me as my readership of many topics and expression styles during the last one hundred days, I thank you. On August twenty-eighth of two thousand and twenty, I posted in silablume.life for the very first time, and I sincerely thank you for being my audience. My…
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Personal Lexicon
Love During moments of intensity, when I witness utter sensitivity and perception levels, and life seems to be the pure, wild, lively, all encompassing depth of the ocean: that is when love, as essence and as gift, becomes the most self evident reality. Sila Blume, 9/2020 Photo: Aristolochia gigantea (Riesen Pfeifenblume)
Sila Blume 