photos of piano music notes in a bowl of water.
makes you wonder what notes our voices put out
and how it resonates in the people we talk to since our physical bodies are up to 60% water.
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“music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.”
– leonard bernstein
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source credits: united humanists, cymascop.com
downtown detroit
on a very chilly and beautiful november evening
sparkling christmas tree
ice
music
family from near and far
laughter
winter market
lots and lots of food
warm drinks
lights
comfort.
—
“downtown. lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder.
and in that moment, i swear we were infinite.”
stephen chbosky
driving home
listening to
the detroit red wings hockey team
playing an international game in sweden
got distracted for a minute
thinking about something
soon realizing
i no longer heard the game
but was instead was now listening to
christmas music
on a station
that jumps into the holiday music early each year
a station
i didn’t have programmed in
didn’t flip to
an early christmas mystery/miracle/conspriacy perhaps?
did the wings somehow get beat out by santa?
—
“radio is the playground of coincidence.”
-sarah vowell
“loves to have record player going or any music at 15 months.
attempts to dance to it and complains when music stops.”
(from my baby book on my ‘rhythm and music’ page, first expression of rhythm)
today, on my birthday, many eons later, not much has changed.
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“life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance.
some will get angry when the rhythm changes. but life is changing all the time.”
-don miguel ruiz
the university musical society
knew all the right words to get me ramped up about the season.
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“music is the shorthand of emotion.”
– leo tolstoy
50+ years as a band
los lobos
came to town
blocked off the street
set up
for a free concert
on a sunny afternoon
first time for my grandson
everyone
loving
their unique brand
of rock, blues, country, and rhythm and blues
from the first chord
there was dancing in the street.
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“music is a moral law.
it gives soul to the universe,
wings to the mind,
flight to the imagination,
and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.”
-plato
(not me, and i don’t have a dog, but how i imagine many passengers react (inside) to my car singing)
—
during my weekday commutes
i spend my time
listening to books, radio, podcasts
and
singing along to a wide range of music
with mixed reviews.
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“music doesn’t get in. music is already in. music simply uncovers what is there, makes you feel emotions that you didn’t necessarily know you had inside you, and runs around waking them all up. a rebirth of sorts.”
-matt haig, how to stop time
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photo credit: google images
pandora cued up a classic ccr song for me on the way home
windows down sun shining warm spring air
thinking of this quote that i just love:
“We were ready to rock out and we waited and waited and finally it was our turn … there were a half million people asleep. These people were out. It was sort of like a painting of a Dante scene, just bodies from hell, all intertwined and asleep, covered with mud. And this is the moment I will never forget as long as I live: A quarter mile away in the darkness, on the other edge of this bowl, there was some guy flicking his Bic, and in the night I hear, “Don’t worry about it, John. We’re with you.” I played the rest of the show for that guy.
—John Fogerty recalling Creedence Clearwater Revival’s 3:30 a.m. start time at Woodstock.”
-hank bordowitz, bad moon rising: the unofficial history of credence clearwater revival
jabbowoceez and adele
each big acts
in their own way
a split ticket for us
something for everyone
both amazing talents.
“i love playing in vegas because you’ve got people from all over the world, and you’re already accepted.
it’s kind of a great mixture of people that come out to the shows, and that makes it fun.”
-tom green
I didn't have my glasses on.... 