some days i cant help but read and read and read.
i was once known as someone who could read non-stop 24/7.
people were exaggerating of course.
my friends were like that. they always liked to kid me around.
but yes, it remains my habit that i would grab something to read while doing something else.
while seated on the toilet bowl.
while lost in a mountain hike.
while attending a boring meeting.
other days i cant help but write and write and write.
i was once known as someone who could write non-stop 24/7.
people were exaggerating of course.
my friends were like that. they always liked to kid me around.
but yes, there were days when i skipped sleep and meals and social interaction so i could finish a 200-page report with an imminent deadline.
still other days i cant help but talk and talk and talk.
i was once known as someone who could talk non-stop 24/7.
people were exaggerating of course.
my friends were like that. they always liked to kid me around.
but yes, there were times when everyone gave up on me and went to sleep.
then i'd go out and make new friends who would listen to my non-stop stream.
some days i cant help but draw and draw and draw.
some days i cant help but walk and walk and walk.
some days i cant help but play and play and play music.
some days i cant help but dream and dream and dream.
but there were rarely days in my many years when i had nothing to do but listen.
rarely days when i wanted to do nothing else but listen.
until recently, that is.
like today.
today i found myself doing nothing, wishing nothing, but to listen and listen and listen.
just be quiet and still for once, and just listen.
immerse myself in a vast sea of sounds.
listen and absorb. soak it all in.
i close my eyes and shut out streaming video.
i thicken my skin and shut out streaming enviro.
feel the force all around us, says yoda.
the force today is sound, says me.
the sound of nature. sky storm. river rage. cloud burst. leaf fall. rain drop. water freeze. moon wane.
the sound of city streets. car horns. sirens wail. doors slam. keyboards click. tv's drone.
the sound of people talking, laughing, shouting, walking, moving, singing.
the sound of my own breathing breast, my throbbing heart, my softly pulsing veins.
the sound of my mind, in glacier melt, an iceberg dolphin sliding and gliding on a vast cold sea of tranquility.
the sound of my soul, finally free, galloping and leaping like centauri plasma fire from galaxy to galaxy.
some days are meant for many things for me to do in parallel.
some days are meant for just a single thing for me to finish.
some days are meant for listening only, and nothing else.
this is one of those days.
it's a good zen day.
i hope this day never ends.
i like the feeling of it.
skystorm posted on Sep 24, 2008
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gingersoul said on Sep 30, 2008....
Sky.......are you still like that? Listening...only?
You are a word painter, a digging -for-diamonds writer....
The perfect listener.
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skystorm said on Oct 01, 2008....
gingersoul:
some days are meant for listening only.
that zen moment has passed.
it will come again, im sure.
and i will be here to enjoy it.
but now is a day for doing many work chores that need to be done.
today im not a perfect listener.
just trying to do some work, and read, and write, and play music, and say hi to family.
i read your latest blog.
you are a word painter yourself.
diamonds are carbon-based life forms, turned into crystalline structure by immense pressure.
they were black, fragile and amorphous in their younger days.
but now they carry all colors of the sun in their immortal bodies.
a diamond can only be reshaped by another diamond.
i like the imagery of it.
but other gemstones are not to be taken for granted.
i particularly like jadestone.
some days i'd like to be a jadestone digger, a jadestone carver.
you are a word painter yourself.
thank you, gingersoul. -
gingersoul said on Oct 02, 2008....
Sky......good morning.....have a perfect no listener day then..
I will try to have one too myself.....
Yes, i like jadestone too...
What about this music to start our day?
Its what i am listening to right now while getting ready for the world out there... -
gingersoul said on Oct 02, 2008....
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gingersoul said on Oct 02, 2008....
stupid YT doesn't let me paste it....grrrr..
there....listen
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skystorm said on Oct 02, 2008....
gingersoul:
good morning to you too.
the adagio and the pictures made me remember the call of the sea.
it brought back good memories.
d minor is a sad chord.
but it felt right.
it tempered the sweet with the bitter.
this is what i'm playing right now.
it reflects the mood of the times.
some autumn magical strands in the endless tapestry of life's changing seasons.
i hope you like it.
thank you again for the music. -
gingersoul said on Oct 02, 2008....
Sky....amazing....i didnt have the chance to open SC at work today....but guess what i have been listening today while crunching numbers on the keyboard?
Precisely the Vivaldi you posted..
I found it perfect....so absolute, like no other music can describe Autunno after that....and yet so open to adjust to any innuendo and assuage of our heart...
And the post you chose has the most stunning pictures..
Thank you for the music.
Vivaldi is good in those long interplanetary floating trips of yours..... -
skystorm said on Oct 03, 2008....
gingersoul:
im glad you liked vivaldi's autumn.
and im glad im not your boss.
otherwise i would have crunched not numbers but your pretty neck for opening SC while at work.
i will play vivaldi again later tonight and not think about crunching pretty necks.
yes, it's good music for long interplanetary trips.
thank you for the idea, gingersoul.
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skystorm said on Feb 24, 2009....
i played the adagio again.
i think it's rather too sad for today.
it's a mild and happy day.
some days i can't help but be alone with one's mind, and listen, and talk, and read, and write, and laugh at one's self.
and listen to vivaldi.
this is one of those days.
vivaldi is good music for long interplanetary trips.
it tempers the necessary loneliness with a sense of celebratory aloneness, of exhilarating freedom.
i wish you have all the chances to enjoy days like this.
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skystorm said on Feb 27, 2009....
interplanetary trip starts.
exhilarating freedom is good.
你 和 我 ，
我 们 说 再 见。