MUSINGS...by Beverly Rieger

It's a very quiet and peaceful Saturday morning. Later today, I will be making music with music groups four different times! Wisdom will indeed be ablaze in the world through the power of music. Tomorrow I play again with two more groups….then some time for reflection, family, and rest. When I am consciously aware of Wisdom within and around me, my schedule of music is exciting and life-affirming. I know how much music from the heart, and played in the energy of Wisdom, brings life, love, compassion, fire, healing to those who experience it and to myself. If I move out of the space of connection with my heart and with Wisdom, all of a sudden life can become frightening and overwhelming. But….that is just a small and limited space and I can move right out of it! My Christmas and solstice hope for all who are reading this blog, and listening to my music, is that you feel deeply the power of love and wisdom which surrounds and supports you in the midst of whatever life brings....

These last days of the year always bring me into a reflective space. Even though the outside is cold, the inner spaces are very warm. Wisdom and love feel close in my heart at this time of year. Creativity is strong. I always take inventory of my physical CDs for the year end, and am brought into gratitude for the gift of music that surrounds me, and flows through me. What a blessing! This year I will also be letting go of extra inventory of my CDs so that the new can have space. I have 15 different albums now and will keep all inventory of The Beloved, The Beloved Special Edition, Healing Music for the 21st Century, Mystical Rose, Deepening In Love, and Wisdom Enters The World In Love. I will keep a good quantity of each of my other albums (Mayan Dream, The Journey of Joy, Heart of Sky/Heart of Earth, Emergence, Radiance, VIDA, Ancient/Future Symphony, Deep Snowy Night, A Celebration of Life and Love) to meet the ongoing sales needs, but will be letting go of extra quantities of...

Unless you live in Southern California, or very South Florida, you are experiencing the Polar Vortex that is bringing a very early winter to the USA. As I sit here writing to you, my hot cup of coffee in hand, the air outside is crisp and frigid. Our first accumulating snow is expected this Sunday. I am listening to Deep Snowy Night and appreciating again the beauty of this music. For some reason, I felt that this album was sort of "second best" because it is my arrangement of Christmas carols and not my own original music. But it is awesome! Gentle…wisdom…bringing the heart from composers of all ages into our time again. After all, Christmas is one manifestation of our annual celebration of the heart wisdom emerging from the center of all things. This web of love connects all of us to each other and to those who have gone before us. This web of love connects us to the unseen world and to our planet Earth. The title has changed from Deep Snowy Night: A Celebration of...

It's amazing that I was preparing last week for the holiday season already. How can that be! But…..the holiday catalog is done…and everything is ready to mail on October 15th. WOW! That was a lot of work at weird hours (like the middle of the night often). For me, marketing is another powerful way to connect to all of you and to keep the relationship going that we have formed over the last 25+ years. Meanwhile, Deep Snowy Night is being sent to National Media Services for duplication. The artwork has been commissioned to Ann Beeching for a new CD called Wisdom Ablaze that will be recorded in the Spring and released in late Spring/early Summer. It's windy and very cold here this morning. October has come in with phenomenal color and like a lion…roaring. Love to all!

This beautiful photo of the Lake at Fox Island in Fort Wayne reminds me of the power of love that weaves such beauty in to our Mother Earth. Love binds all things. We hear this phrase often in weddings and have the witness of two people who are indeed bound together in this weaving of love. That same weaving emerges through all of life from the core of love….LOVE MANIFESTING….through the physical form that is vibrated into the various nature forms, including human beings. We are light! We radiate love through our physical bodies. We express love as we speak, create, walk, help…. What an awesome world we live in with love as the binding force and creator.

It's been 6 weeks since I posted a blog on Musings. WOW! All I can say, is that July and early August were lazy months for writing on this blog. I had the joy of the July annual sale and reconnection with some of you through this sale. A "snail mail" Musings went out to my mailing list in early July. That paper mailing of Musings hasn't happened for many years. However, it just felt right this summer. As always, July is inventory month also. I had time for rest and fun these last six weeks. Now, I plan to continue rest and fun and keep Mayan Dream Productions dancing! Love and joy to all of you.

I sit in my office, writing to all of you, and feeling the intense colors of this cool summer. The flowers outside my office window, and the greens of leaves are spectacular. A cardinal family has made it's nest in this beauty also. The sky is clear blue and the air is crisp and cool. The vibration of wisdom has created this manifestation of GAIA. Over the years of composing and recording music, my question to the Wisdom core from which my music comes has always been: "How do I describe in sound the essence of the beauty around me." And Wisdom always replies: "Open to the vibration and the feeling...don't think about it....let it change you into the person who is this vibration.... then begin to make music." From this space has emerged an instrumental sound, combined with sounds of nature, which opens the possibilities of emergence and healing and creativity to myself and to those who experience my music. In this sense, I am a healer who creates...