VACATION
VACATION I am about to succumb to leisure. Work er being paused and stunned to silence, like Captain Kirk on 1960s television. I am gearing myself down to 2nd gear, in part for my maintenance duties of my home, which will prelude the leisure that will follow. This is the act of doing almost nothing. […]
The Follia (Hespèrion XXI)
The Follia (Hespèrion XXI) From the wooden depths of a Gamba wielded by the talented Jordi Savall a musical festival in conjured forth and it manifests itself as the “Follia” a bold exercise and a statement of the most capable musical artists played in a many different variations with elegant grace and with passion. The […]
THE GYM
THE GYM I hit the gym often. Not as much as I did in the past, but still several mornings a week. Now it is for muscle and endurance maintenance, ill health prevention and keeping my Testosteronal value up, where they belong. I trained much harder in my youth, as one does of course. I […]
The Old Man with the Shotgun
The Old Man with the Shotgun The year is 1982 and it is a spring day in Reykjavik, Iceland. In front of my house there is a one story retail store building, that used to have a small supermarket, and a fish merchant. They had closed their stores because a small mall center nearby had […]
CONTEMPLATIONS
CONTEMPLATIONS Saturday mornings I wake up early, before everybody else. I have peace and quiet to brew good coffee and sit down to think, read and write. To contemplate. About where I am, in life, in my expectations to myself, in the context of the everything in the world and in the spiritual realm. I […]
RHAPSODY IN BLUE
RHAPSODY IN BLUE You enticed me rightly as a teenager lured me to you with a jazz expression high pitch melody dancing on it’s own like a storytellers prologue to a tale told by a Gershwin orchestra, boldly, the music describes to me a journey through an Allegro of busy city streets the cars honking […]
Saturn Day Morning
Saturn Day Morning The day is ripped open by another arduous hike the elevation is steep thousand meters upward my circular blood system will pump and puff oxygen will demand entry to my lungs domain my body and legs will keep up with ambition but the view will match my expectation and the effort will […]