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A new blog to contain answers to prompts |
Since my old blog "Everyday Canvas "  became overfilled, here's a new one. This new blog item will continue answering prompts, the same as the old one. Cool water cascading to low ground
To spread good will and hope all around.  |
| Prompt: “The guitar is a miniature orchestra in itself,” said Ludwig van Beethoven Do you like guitar music? Why? ----------- Do I like guitar music? Well, who doesn't! Imagine the sound of guitars or even that of a single guitar. To me, guitars or rather good guitarists are magical, with their intricate finger picking and soft passages and their sudden energetic solos. In the same vein, music made for guitars is deeply personal. What is deeply personal finds itself inside many listeners hearts, adjusting its notes and timbre to the feelings or each person with melodies that range from soothing to delicate to powerful and electrifying. I can understand why my favorite composer Beethoven would say that the guitar is a miniature orchestra, and aptly so. Guitar music is versatile. From Classical to Flamenco to the soulful Blues, a guitar speaks to me in many languages with nostalgia and peace. Surely, the electric guitar also can ignite much energy and strong passions. Then, with me, Flamenco and Classics are the first choices on a long line. To tell the truth, rather than an electric guitar, I prefer the simple, or rather not-so-simple, original instrument, the acoustic guitar. I remember, decades ago, falling in love with the guitar music when I first listened to Albeniz's Asturias and Francisco Tarrega's Recuerdos de la Alhambra. Soon after that Granados's 12 Spanish Dances took my breath away. And surely, who can forget the master, Andres Segovia, especially when he played Bach on his famous guitar, his fiery strumming with his each note capturing the essence of longing, love, joy, or sorrow? Each note is the keyword here, because with a guitar you may really hear each note, connecting people to one another universally, through cultures, genres, and generations. So, just six strings on one acoustic guitar and it can remake me by transporting me to many different worlds, telling me stories without words, stirring feelings of nostalgia and peace in me. Now, what could be better than that! |
| Let this thought inspire your entry today, "March may start off slow, but once it gets going every flower will bloom and every bird will sing" . Do you feel renewed energy in March like the plants and the birds? ----------- Do I feel any renewed energy? I'm not sure. Not where I live, anyway. Here, with March or rather toward the end of it, comes the warning of the scorching sun. Granted, I don't have the danger of slipping on ice and killing myself here, but I may end up frying after a couple of months. Still, March has many special meanings for me. March 1 is my birthday, but it was also my father's birthday. Talk about coincidences! Other coincidences have to do with the birthdays of many friends in March. Especially, March 15. March 15 is the birthday of my best friend and cousin and also several other friends. So for me, March is the birthday month of the year. Yes, I also have to say, as a birthday month, March is transitional. This is because it starts off slow, when the world may still seem dormant with bare trees and cold winds up north, but with a stronger sun where I am. Then, as the days pass, the weather keeps jumping up and down and huge changes in nature can be observed. This is when the flowers and plants push up through the soil in the northern regions. This is when the birds that sing to us here down south during the winter months begin offering their spring songs to the northern regions. So as March suggests, slow beginnings can lead to better or different and maybe even magnificent outcomes. It is like life when progress is sometimes slow and change seems distant. With time and persistence, however, the future falls in its rightful place. Now, if I only felt that renewed March energy like the plants and the weather warming up...Well, just maybe! With March enters some hope. |
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