2021
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Celebration Day — eighteen
The most common day, the least anticipated moment, the most traveled path, the most reliable space, the very essence of a recurring motion, any security in being, all will likely become a new birth, if experienced with the intention to celebrate. A birthdate may otherwise be a mere compensation for the previous three hundred and…
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Celebration Day — thirteen
A body in motion wants to maintain motionA body in rest wants to remain at rest Breathing mattersFood mattersThoughts matterWords matterFor the sake of motion, all matterIn acknowledgement and appreciation, mind and soul choose to maintain and promote joy, celebrating the breath of freshness we intrinsically are, the metaphysical beauty the palate reveals, the intellect…
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Celebration Day — seven
This is pure celebration, in part because the opera world has been an important source of joy in my life for the last four decades. Magnificent as realm of music composition and theater since the sixteenth century in Italy, it is a school on human condition, with its comedies, tragedies, and transcendental exercises, a school…
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Multi-Dimensions of a Celebratory Day
Multitalented and multitasking frequently had a somewhat disturbing effect on my approach to life. I see it as inherently human to have a variety of abilities, talents, knowledge sources, and as equally natural to operate on a variety of levels and areas simultaneously. Hence, I find it a tad redundant pointing to these as exceptional…
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I am seeing a wise infant
Seeing light at the end of a tunnel gives hope but no clarity. Is a train coming? Is the light mere reflection? Is it an opening leading to rescue, success, freedom, an abyss? Is it an opening, or an obstacle? Some are now seeing a light at the end of the tunnel. But after an…
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Existential Exercise I
Part one: In my teens I sat at the piano on a path of poplar trees, and felt confident in the assertion that no human, no swimming nor crawling nor flying creature dislikes music. As of that moment it was evident that whenever I compose sounds and words, it needs to be under the premise…
Sila Blume 