Greetings ,whoever-reads-this.
It's a nice sunny day in the neighborhood. One of my cats is lounging here on the table, between my keyboard and monitor. Dmitri, my tomcat, is the feline visitor. He likes to spread out, make himself at home. His sister Svetlana also plants herself up here.
I give them free rein for the very reason that it interrupts--and occasionally disrupts--whatever I'm doing. Finding that with advancing age, life provides more of these interruptions and disruptions as a matter of course, so it's important to be able to roll with the punches. It's the one you don't see that usually takes you out.
Music news. A couple of us were supposed to have a get-together tonight and make some music. Being a fairly introverted so-and-so, I'm relieved that I don't have to leave the house, but disappointed that the session didn't happen. Our host had had a finger operated on, and was feeling some discomfort/numbness in his other fingers on the hand.
He has told me that every time life dumps enough manure in his direction, he starts to contemplate putting together a blues band.. Funny and poignant at the same time. Having had a few setbacks of my own this year, I'm starting to think in that direction myself.
My brother and I were discussing this, and I made the statement--half-joking but maybe a little bit serious, that the blues is just built into life, as expressed in Buddha's First Noble Truth. (I'm not a Buddhist, or, for that matter, anything else. It was just fun to quote.)
It's commonly stated as All Life is Suffering, but I think that's too simplistic. Better. all life has a certain unsatisfactoriness to it. Not getting what you want. Getting what you don't want. Even when you get what you want, you're going to lose it eventually. Everything dies.
Sounds like fodder for a whole slew of blues songs. Or Country songs, for that matter. Both born from adversity. Similarly cathartic.
Anyway! Hopefully, we'll all get together next week for a night of music-making and merriment. Strangely enough, after all this talk of adversity, the act of making music is a joyous one- regardless of the actual mood of the music. Miles Davis was quoted as saying, “It's the most fun you can have with your clothes on. ”
And that's what I've got for you for the moment. Thanks as ever for stopping in and wading through all this verbiage. Much love. Bye for now.
