In the mood for music

It rarely happens to me but at the end of this week I was really in the mood for music.

I very much enjoyed listening to Miwako Okuda's Shizuku. Nice voice, not too much drama but dynamic, and nice background tunes.

Afterwards I needed something a bit more complex, and a piece we discovered with my partner at a concert this Spring was just perfect: Dvořzak's Song to the Moon (by Rusalka) in Renée Fleming's wonderful rendering.

Enjoy and have a lovely weekend.

Longing for the other person

Have you ever felt when the person you love was far from you that you could give anything to have them in your arms at that moment? That you wish you could fly, or that your self would have an ethereal, non-material part which could cross space without boundaries and unite with the one whose presence you are longing for?
That you would give so much to be with the other in that moment? And still, despite the aching space their bodies lines leave on your skin, you are happy because the other exists?


Dvořák's Song to the Moon evokes these feelings in me every time I hear it. It is a strange fulfillment to be made happy by the existence of my partner even though she is so far and I won't see her for a few more months.

Here is a grasping, moving performance of the piece by Renée Fleming.

Sunrise, music and tea

A little morning beauty to get the day going:

Also, this is the view I enjoy every morning. Lovely late sunrise.