Wednesday, January 04, 2006

And on the third day, there were...


WORDS! Let there be words. And there were. Juuuuust look at 'em. I've mastered the help menu and we are now on our way, but only after another photo taken today.

I can't help but think how music and landscape are essentially linked, at least for me. To have one and not the other for too long is akin to enjoying only the outside of roasted marshmallows or never having lime juice for your gin n'tonic. Today, seeing the ocean roll endlessly into cove after gorgeous coastal cove, and then this evening hearing anything by C.V. Stanford or John Sheppard and JS Bach or WA Mozart, or Bruckner or Gounoud along with that memory brings a rightness, when you light a righteous bonfire on the beach, the unexpected perfect compliment is this pastoral choral music. Some polyphonic vocals give a nice balance of harmony to chaos that everyone really can enjoy, whether you agree with me now or not, you can only try to remember or, having tried say, yeah... you liked it didn't you? And if you, upon such a moment at a warm fire on the water's edge, happened to instead decide to bring in the noise and/or bring in the funk, you knew it would be OK, and it was, wasn't it?... This is music. It provides for all more than we all can control... we relent, for music truly is nature embodied. I don't know anyone who would rather sing in an incensed-cathedral than in a spacious starlit/moonlit clearing among evergreens in the middle of somewhere. Would we have that all the time...

Happy third day of the year - I stop counting on the 10th.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I have been made a man by many a man but no man has half the man that this man has, man.

Anonymous said...

"And on the third day, there were feelings of solidity...feelings of control and confidence. Gone is the turmoil and upheaval. For this one day we can rejoice and know that this is not "the never ending story" but a proud moment in production. So bring on the burritos and chili.

matt'streehouse said...

Oh thank goodness someone asked for the frijoles...it reminds me of the painful issues which sidelined my loved one for the long weekend over NYE; for as the grand stroke of midnight glided 2006 in like a smooth open-window breeze and not with its usual WHUMP/BURP/YELL/CRASH, we smooched and sipped cold pear schnapps and held hands between a pair of old recliners in my parents' living room. She is much better now, and I hope you each had moments of solitude and quietness on the eve of the passing of a really not-so-great year, for most everyone. Here's to Y2K6...may you hardware be firm and your software stay supple.

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