Who comes to mind that you are grateful for in your life? - Always, my husband first. He is my best friend, biggest champion, honest truth teller, inspiration, curious companion explorer... I feel known and loved in a way that I've never know. I am held up, never held down. And as we age together, we discover each other anew again and again. I am beyond grateful.
What one action might you take today that brings you joy? - It already happened as I sat reading your beautiful story about your new friendship with Dirje. Joy X 10.
I love this story of the two of you discovering each other, all the ways your paths align, and how you've found your Elder power in this time of your life. Grateful for your curious listening and searching, and your generous hearts for filling all our lives with light and wisdom.
John O'Donohue says that when experience true, authentic beauty (such as Dirje's music), it feels like a homecoming. That is always true to me of her gift. Resting into her gorgeous notes, I touch back into a spiritual core in myself—a remembering of something sacred in me and in all of us.
Dear Dirje, Dear Ann, my upbringing and schooling did not offer me opportunities to experience music. In addition to that when I auditioned for the school choir my performance was labelled as 'non descript'. I know that this has affected my lifetime relationship with music and my default position is for silence rather than music. BUT, as I hear your playing and hear the cello, I am called to spend more time with this beautiful sound, maybe take the music with me when i go to my favourite woodland place. Thank you Dirje for shifting my perspective and feeling that there is something I want to experience and learn more about. With Love David
this music reminds me of those moments where I linger with something that feels impossibly sweet. Thank you! Wearing a beautiful queenly necklace brings me joy :D. Currently, I'm grateful for a new job at Antioch University!
I love the classics. And there are some especially wonderful concertos for cello that have sometimes been neglected. The concerto by Nicolai Myaskovsky is gentle but also passionate in its colossal song of melancholy. The concerto by Aulis Sallinen with its long sweeping first movement reminds me so much of a quiet woodland. Is the cello the most suitable instrument to describe the solace and comfort that reaches the soul from being in touch with the spirituality of a forest. So moving. So comforting. Always. I could write more and more but as always the real lesson is to listen. The great composers through their devoted musicians will always produce such magical words in the musical notes. At times of difficulty more and more I realise the most wonderful answer comes from listening
And as I write I hear the birds outside my living room window
Who comes to mind that you are grateful for in your life? - Always, my husband first. He is my best friend, biggest champion, honest truth teller, inspiration, curious companion explorer... I feel known and loved in a way that I've never know. I am held up, never held down. And as we age together, we discover each other anew again and again. I am beyond grateful.
What one action might you take today that brings you joy? - It already happened as I sat reading your beautiful story about your new friendship with Dirje. Joy X 10.
I love this story of the two of you discovering each other, all the ways your paths align, and how you've found your Elder power in this time of your life. Grateful for your curious listening and searching, and your generous hearts for filling all our lives with light and wisdom.
John O'Donohue says that when experience true, authentic beauty (such as Dirje's music), it feels like a homecoming. That is always true to me of her gift. Resting into her gorgeous notes, I touch back into a spiritual core in myself—a remembering of something sacred in me and in all of us.
Dear Dirje, Dear Ann, my upbringing and schooling did not offer me opportunities to experience music. In addition to that when I auditioned for the school choir my performance was labelled as 'non descript'. I know that this has affected my lifetime relationship with music and my default position is for silence rather than music. BUT, as I hear your playing and hear the cello, I am called to spend more time with this beautiful sound, maybe take the music with me when i go to my favourite woodland place. Thank you Dirje for shifting my perspective and feeling that there is something I want to experience and learn more about. With Love David
this music reminds me of those moments where I linger with something that feels impossibly sweet. Thank you! Wearing a beautiful queenly necklace brings me joy :D. Currently, I'm grateful for a new job at Antioch University!
Thank you for this beautiful piece of writing and introducing me to her music. What a joy.
I love the classics. And there are some especially wonderful concertos for cello that have sometimes been neglected. The concerto by Nicolai Myaskovsky is gentle but also passionate in its colossal song of melancholy. The concerto by Aulis Sallinen with its long sweeping first movement reminds me so much of a quiet woodland. Is the cello the most suitable instrument to describe the solace and comfort that reaches the soul from being in touch with the spirituality of a forest. So moving. So comforting. Always. I could write more and more but as always the real lesson is to listen. The great composers through their devoted musicians will always produce such magical words in the musical notes. At times of difficulty more and more I realise the most wonderful answer comes from listening
And as I write I hear the birds outside my living room window
Thankyou and heartfelt best wishes
Wonderful. Just what I needed this morning. Thankyou