I love the music; not necessarily the lyrics except for these.

Mmm...whacha say
Mmm...that you only meant well?
Of course you did
Mmm...that it's all for the best?
Of course it is
Mmm...whacha say?



I like the beat. I like the voice.

For your listening pleasure (no vid)
Breathe by Abney Park



Item: I lost my silver vocation ring while in the desert southwest. The one engraved with "Mind Body Spirit Peace Love." It wasn't expensive (circa $5) but I've worn it ever since I professed monastic vows a few years ago. I think I left it in Tucson as I didn't have it in NM.

Item: I've maintained my weight loss while on the trip. From limited data, it's not so much what I eat as how much I exercise. Not that I'm pigging out on doublecheezbrgrs and cupcakes in the future.

Item: I didn't have a mental meltdown (yet!) after the trip in part to being able to take personal time at the end of the trip. I'm feeling antsy to get back to work which is a good sign.

Item: The basement lived up to its reputation by flooding in the back corner during a heavy rain yesterday. It looks like it was a misplaced gutter on the corner. La and I took the baseboards off to dry the wall. Called J.u.l.i.e. to get a survey of the underground utilities along the house to see about some type of drainage system away from the foundation.

Item: Replacing & reorganizing the gas lines in the utility room and in the laundry room cost about $400 but now I am safe from "years of gas leakage behind the wall." The tech showed me the dryer fitting and it was loose, black and corroded. Serendipity that the heating/cooling guy came in to service the unit right after I return from a trip so that the house was closed up so the "smell" was present.

Item: Is it worth the focus factor to drink a bit of caffeine (20 oz coffee) to get the concentration & appetite reduction but then I must have caffeine every day or else suffer migrainey withdrawal headache by 3 pm?

Item: I am harvesting & saving seeds right now from the heirlooms.

Item: My hands really hurt and the pain goes up to my elbows. I'm wearing my wrist guards (CTS). My blood work shows the inflammation factors in my body are normal (high, but normal), but my fingers/wrists and now elbows are painful - tender to touch as well.

Item: While in ABQ, I made a spontaneous stop at a local massage/spa office in the Gallerie (sp?) and had an absolutely wonderful massage. My therapist used energy techniques while doing some very gentle trigger point relief for my neck & shoulders. We actually harmonized with the music playing...tonal, rythm, breath, etc. It was incredibly relaxing. I need to find someone practicing that technique/style here in PIA.

Item: I made it to the Farmer's market today to say "warm winter!" to my farmer friends. Sad. Inevitable. I picked up a perfect personal pie pumpkin for some tasty pumpkin challah bread and assorted autumn treats.

Item: I really need to clean my home office and organize the office closet.

Item: There was a house on 2 acres (about 1 acre pasture) about 20 minutes from PIA for auction today. Might have been worthwhile to bid but it was located between two fields...chemical drift would be a problem.

Item: Procrastination is the bane of my existence. Why do I do it? I'll think about it tomorrow or the next day.

Item: I have one candle in the yoga room that refuse to keep its wick lit for more than a few minutes.

Item: The neighbor's black lab has taken to whining when let out into the back yard located next to my bedroom window.

Item: I love strawberry jam.

Item: I am content with all that I have. Thank you.

Querer
Dentro del corazon
Sin pudor, sin razon
Con el fuego de la pasion
Y volar


To want
Within the heart
Without modesty
Without reason
With the fire of the passion
and to fly

Querer
Y poder compartir
Nuestra sed de vivir
El regalo que nos da el amor
Es la vida

To want
And to be able to share
Our thirst to live
The gift that gives us love
Is the life

Courtesy of Cirque du Soleil.
Thank you, geometrician, for the reminder.

Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Anthony McGill and Gabriela Montero perform music by John Williams.


Gods, I love cello.

I want to break free...



I want it that way...

A fun rendition. this journal needs some humor!

John Gage

Silence. Not silence.




Although commonly perceived as "four minutes thirty-three seconds of silence", the piece actually consists of the sounds of the environment that the listeners hear while it is performed.

In 1951, Cage visited the anechoic chamber at Harvard University. An anechoic chamber is a room designed in such a way that the walls, ceiling and floor absorb all sounds made in the room, rather than reflecting them as echoes. They are also externally sound-proofed. Cage entered the chamber expecting to hear silence, but he wrote later, "I heard two sounds, one high and one low. When I described them to the engineer in charge, he informed me that the high one was my nervous system in operation, the low one my blood in circulation."

Take me back to your house, Basement Jaxx!! I want to meet Meshell Ndegeocello where it feels like home!!

In other news, laundry is okay physically on the back; Lawn mowing not so good, actually. Holiday tomorrow. Need to clean house. Amazing it can get dirty when I spend a majority of my time flat on my back.

Sainte Colombe playing viola de gamba & dreaming of his wife (from the movie). It's about 3 minutes.



Thank you, this_not_that for the great lead into 17th century baroque music and the viola de gamba.

( The full score for those that liked the first excerpt (7 minutes): )

I have fallen in love with the music of Henry Purcell (1659-1695) and baroque music which led me on an internet adventure to the Fairy Queen, Dido and Aeneas, Dido's Lament to Jessye Norman to the ErlKonig.

I've always loved gregorian chants - I thought I was a purist, but then I heard these guys. Impressive.

Losing my Religion

Even better: Gregorian Metallica!
"Nothing else matters"