An important skill to live Life:
A Positive Mind.
This mode of playing the piano –
to combine harmonies in an unexpected way,
is a challenging one.
Positivity and hope is the power.
Creations and combination are the road.
Solutions are the result.
It happens that I hear people say:
“I feel small”.
I know the feeling, I can feel how it is.
It’s relative, however.
Small in relation to what?
It’s always bigger than something smaller.
Listeners that have been following
PianoTweets for a while,
probably recognize the hidden theme.
It’s one of my favorite challenges:
to make variations on variations.
To improvise on a theme and then
to improvise on the improvisation.
It’s endless.
It makes me feel rich and eternal;
like the universe expands,
I always can expand my themes to new themes.
So, I repeat for myself:
As above,
so below.
Listeners that has been following PianoTweets’ pieces
for a long time now
probably recognise the hidden theme.
It’s one of my favorite challenges:
to make variations on variations.
To improvise on a theme and then
to improvise on the improvisation.
It’s endless.
It makes me feel rich and eternal;
like the universe expands,
I always can expand my themes to new themes.
So, I repeat for myself:
As above,
so below.
My best time,
my favorite hours…
Looking at daylights coming up,
probably cloudy,
showing what climate is present here,
listening at the sleepy silence
My brains starts,
ideas shake hands;
best friends they are.
They join in creativity,
mostly enthousiastic,
sometimes very reflective.
Finally, but always
results are coming up –
after these early mornings.
I’m a walker on my path, all alone, sometimes accompanied,
but all choices and movements finally are mine.
The path is made by steps.
Looking forward, a path is what we see in front of us or
how we imagine where our next steps will go.
Looking the other way (which is looking back),
I made some big steps in my life as well as many small ones.
As a child I grew up in a very severe, religious atmosphere.
To know its origin better, I moved to Norway and stayed for 2 years.
I bursted out of there and ran away, taking many steps at a time.
Back to my homeland.
Because I couldn’t imagine myself being a prisoner in a religion.
I worked in a broadcast company for 22 years.
Then I jumped out, sold almost everything I owned and emigrated again, but now to Italy.
Again many steps in a short time.
But after a while I didn’t see a path anymore.
I remigrated into the Netherlands in 2004.
After some time of reflection and work
I decided to follow a big dream:
to work for myself, on my own,
all based on my wish to compose music.
I get closer and closer to the fulfillment of this important dream,
which slowly becomes real in the PianoTweets project.
A project with many possibilities and space for creativity,
but in fact, this path is a soloist’s path as well.
I will always be a walker with only my steps.
The Steps I made – PianoTweet 300
(I’m grateful to Marja Willems, inspiring me with this blog about a walker).
From a Start to an End
again and again.
No one ever knows:
where’s the start
where’s the end.
We all want to grow.
The world wants to grow.
Without limits
into Eternity.
Although everyone on earth knows
our material growth has an end.
And at the same time we hope
our spiritual growth is endless
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