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 |   Second blog -- answers to an ocean of prompts |
 "Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself." CHARLIE CHAPLIN  Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you. David Whyte        This is my supplementary blog in which I will post entries written for prompts. |
For "Blog City Prompt Forum"  "If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand. "Author Unknown Discuss how you felt reading this quote. Did you immediately think of someone special or a time in your life? ---- Funny, about how I felt about this quote. You’d think it would remind me of my late beloved husband or some time in my youth or something to do with my children, but no. My first reaction or thought was about God. Although I stay away from religious or spiritual stuff online, this is what I felt immediately when I first read the above quote. Each time something happens, good or bad in my estimation and in the short or the long run, I find His hand in it, and that makes me smile whether it may involve the entire evening sky or the entire creation with all the universes in it, I cannot say.  For: "Space Blog Group" Prompt: From Jeannie Cheering for Martel   ’s "Prince Remembered" . Who is your favorite musician? What do you like about them?--- Needless to say, I like all music. For liking so many different kinds of it, it is difficult to say I have a favorite musician. Yet, narrowing it down, since I had a bit of training in classical music, I’ll have to pick Beethoven. After all, Fur Elise was the first small piece I had learned to play. Plus, when a kid, Beethoven was the one musician whose life story I’d read. From that book, I gathered that he had music in his mind and only that, and strangely enough, he was deaf. He would walk the streets, thinking, composing, and talking to himself, which made people believe he was somewhat off and children followed him making fun of him. When in concert, he would stop performing if the audience was not paying attention. He was a character all right! Whether he might have been a grumpy person or he was misunderstood, Beethoven lived in his music, and I truly appreciate the output from such a dedication. Then, as the result, it is that fantastic music he created, stretching all forms and previous musical norms to unleash emotion inside his symphonies, concertos, string quartets, piano sonatas, chamber works and even an opera. What wasn’t understood in his time now is considered to be the greatest music of all time. Imagine that, more than 11 billion miles away from Earth, the Voyager spacecraft is, at this very moment, carrying a gold vinyl record containing two pieces by Beethoven. Now, that's something! |
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