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insomnia

Sometimes at night I can't sleep. Insomnia is a bitch. So my mind starts to race. Thoughts rushing in and out, some lingering, some pestering me. Some thoughts are lost. My entire body is craving melatonin but up top it's the central railway station. My brain is New York. And everyone knows New York is the city that never sleeps. One light goes out another one is switched on.  It doesn't matter if in Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens or The Bronx. One thought goes another one gets the role of the protagonist. Trains going from Frontal lobe to Parietal maybe even to Temporal ... Depends how busy the day is. I wish I had access to the security cameras so I could watch this grand play enfold itself. Day after day, night after night. Don't the actors get bored of playing the same theatre piece on repetition? 

Music the Samaritan

 I find music one of the most fascinating creations of mankind. We form our mouths in certain ways and somehow beautiful sounds can be heard. We can learn to make and play anything and everything. In retrospect it is not the greatest creation, but far more the greatest discovery. What is music? How would you describe what music is to someone who has never heard any in their entire life? In a sense music is passion. Music is expressing. Music is feeling. Music can be anything and everything you want it to be and music can do anything it wants with you. Oxford dictionary. music /noun/ : "Vocal or instrumental sounds (or both) combined in such a way as to produce beauty of form, harmony and expression of emotion. Why do we enjoy music? How can it motivate us? And who or what even decides if something sounds harmonic or not? How is this decided? There is so much I strive to find out, so much I yearn to know. But I can tell you what I do know. Music