Tuesday, January 9, 2018

Backing down and letting go



How do you feel when the day got to you? That is, from your ego’s point of view. A pricked self-esteem...  when the very "professional" people who are meant to provide the anodyne are the ones who let you down.

I’ve heard that before, they’re just doing their job, right? Please help, my collar pain is re-visiting.

Or people who profess to be our friends yet whose actions are far from caring.

We do need to practice the quieting and containing of ourselves for our own sake, you know, those times when things don’t seem to come together.

We need to just quiet down - even if that something is aversion and hurting the very values we hold on to.

Quieting down can take a while. Even many months. This month I've started cleaning up my Address Book. It feels good. Can't wait to clean-up my Facebook 'friends' who are never friends.

Who said life is a bowl of cherries. It can be, but not always.

To keep peace, we usually put on that ultra-flexibility, that is, not insisting our way, even if we should have. But then, there comes a point when, in the face of other people’s intransigent, unreasonable attitudes, we are challenged. That point when we can still give our piece of mind even if it means a bit of boat-rocking.

Giving one's peace of mind doesn't have to be always verbal. It can be an action signifying "enough is enough."

Sometimes, refusing to back down has its own rewards. It can even mean a breakthrough.

A point in time. 



(c) 2018. Tel Asiado. Leaves from my Musings. All rights reserved. 

Sunday, January 7, 2018

Mozart's Serenade for 13 Winds in B-flat major, K. 361

Music Appreciation Hour /




Serenade No. 10 for 13 Winds in B-flat major, K 361/370a "Gran Partita" (1781-82)

00:00 - Largo. Allegro molto
09:14 - Menuetto - Trio I - Trio II
19:31 - Adagio
25:02 - Menuetto. Allegretto - Trio I - Trio II
30:24 - Romanze. Adagio - Allegretto - Adagio
37:45 - Thema mit Variationen
47:18 - Rondo. Allegro molto

Performed by the Orchestra of St. Luke, with conductor Sir Charles Mackerras. Oboe - Stephen Taylor (principal) & Melanie Field Clarinet - William Blount (principal) & Daniel Olsen Bassett Horn - Gary Koch (principal) & Mitchell Weiss Horn - Stewart Rose (principal), Scott Temple, William Purvis, and Russell Rizner Bassoon - Dennis Godburn (principal) & Marc Goldberg String Bass - John Feeney.  (Recorded by Telarc in 1994)

Painting: Gesellschaft in den Gärten der Villa d'Este, Johann Wilhelm Baur

As my intent is an hour of music appreciation, for more information about this music by Mozart, go to Wikipedia.org's Serenade No. 10 (Mozart).


Video Credit:

Mozart / Serenade for 13 Winds in B-flat major, K. 361 "Gran Partita" (Mackerras). Youtube, uploaded by scrymgeour34. Accessed 7 January 2018.


(c) 2018. Inspired Pen. Leaves from my Musings. All rights reserved. 

Tuesday, January 2, 2018

A Life Quote






Sometimes our lives have to be completely shaken up, changed, and rearranged to relocate us to the place we are meant to be.