July 29, 2008
Follow the light
…listen
…about the musicTo that which lies beyond.
As promised prior to my departure last week, here are a couple of soothing views that accompanied me home from Seattle to Friday Harbor at day’s end yesterday. If ever there were proof of heaven on Earth, perhaps this is it. Or at least, the gateway to it. I sit here in my studio and am back in paradise, for sure.
I followed this light homeward, to joy. A pal of mine from years ago, about my age and one of the kindest and most creative people I’ve ever met, just followed it to… someplace else. Awaiting me when I arrived home last night was a devastatingly sad email, telling me of a mutual friend’s sudden death a few days ago from a brain aneurysm. He leaves a wife who adored him, a three year old who will never know the utter joy of his Dad’s utter joy, and no doubt, many amazing ideas and projects that his gifted spirit has left permanently unfinished. Goodbye Niko, and may the light be as beautiful as you.
Glenn Buttkus said,
July 30, 2008 @ 5:06 am
You really brought the moisture to these old cheeks with this posting, life being what it is, mixing beauty with sadness, joy with loss, insight with death. I loved your musical clip, Plasma@:58 seconds, sort and succinct, brief like our time in this life, just a blink to eternity, a grain of moving sand mantled by many others. I had to listen to entire Bioplasm @ 12 minutes after you whetted my appetite, kind of a flutes are us piece–C flutes, bass flutes, and alto flutes, with a piccolo for spice. I liked what Tobias Fischer said regarding it:
Her quartet jumps
into a kettle
of primordial soup,
dabbling and splashing
in agitated rhythms,
cloudy ambiances,
dense textures,
and open outcries.
Well put, Tobias. We kelphistos send our condolences to your friend’s family. This reinforces the sanctity of living in the moment, and finding the kind of joy in each of them that you seem to.
To That Which Lies Beyond.
As promised
prior to my departure last week,
here are a couple of soothing views
that accompanied me home
from Seattle to Friday Harbor
at day’s end yesterday.
If ever there were proof
of heaven on Earth,
perhaps this is it.
Or at least,
the gateway to it.
I sit here
in my studio
and am back in paradise,
for sure.
I followed this light
homeward,
to joy.
A pal of mine
from years ago,
about my age
and one of the kindest
and most creative people
I’ve ever met,
just followed it to…
someplace else.
Goodbye Niko,
and may the light be
as beautiful
as you.
Alex Shapiro July 2008