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The Orchard
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Cymbals and seasons
2003

First roots (05/03)

2004

Sowing seeds (08/04)

Turning trees (09/04)

Underground? (10/04)

2005

Bursting out from below (03/05)

Cruel deception? (04/05)

Flower power (05/05)

Knuckle down (06/05)

Of Apple trees and synching feelings (07/05)

Eclipsed and ablaze (08/05)

Of light beyond clouds (09/05)

Harvest and rot (10/05)

Defrosting the fountains (11/05)

Difficult digging (12/05)

2006

The Janus month (01/06)

Manuals and mud (02/06)

The people, the pitfalls... (03/06)

...the peaks, and the river (04/06)

Unclouded confessionals (05/06)

Riding the roller-coaster (06/06)

Precipitate plunge (07/06)


Strong Stuff?
The Orchard is space to "think different", if at all. Life brings occasions to cease the endless flow of thought; it can be hard, but wisdom needs quietened minds to grow.
For months, during a dream of love, there were locks on the gate. Now it's open in all weathers. Space, time and mind occupy dimensions that are rarely mentioned in the music log unless musicians do themselves.
You'll find more music here, poetry, prose and pictures for people's special moments, some of my "gurus", sometimes a tribute to a friend no longer with us.
Welcome also to a workshop; other entries concern "tools of the trade" for music-lovers, and there are notes on widely used Mac software and the occasional rant at Apple and the music industry.
This is where ideas can gestate and experiments happen.
Predict Nothing.



jeudi 6 octobre 2005
 

...and I do apologise for it!
Thank you all very much.

Especially since by now, the final episode of what turned out to be an extremely elastic passage through the zero tagged on to the end of the Big Five-Oh, I may have lost you on the way.
I know it's really October 6. Honest I do.

But I went to a funeral today, you see, a happy one, as such gatherings can be when they are celebrations of a long, wise and generous life! There's been work and I'm off after reassuring you I've still got my marbles to a concert, which I promise is definitely the last bit of my 50th birthday.
Meanwhile, doubtless with increasing bemusement, far more people than I expected have been trying to reply to a birthday post on Sunday (the middle day of it) as it changed every time you looked at it!

The glitch was the way that entry rewrote itself, I disclaim responsibility ... nearly! And now it's moved and there's a new one where it was on October 2. I would like to answer mails very soon, including some from people I didn't know. Lots of people said very nice and kind things and even made some good suggestions about the log.
Now that time appears to running in one direction again, I'll write you individual answers at the weekend, all being well.
Some of your suggestions I've implemented. Others are ideas I'll think about, like one from Angelique who would like me to share a bit of her story; she's not a musician, at least this is what she says, but she sounds very much like a woman who is music.
Anyway, I've got these trains to catch.

So thank you, just thank you again -- I'm a bit overwhelmed; people who come here are a most remarkable lot.
It's been such a nice birthday!

Music and life beyond 50 resumes next time.


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