November Simplicity

How beautiful the month of November is in the Midwest. This photo, taken at Chain of Lakes State Park, captures the artistic brush of blues and browns painted by Mother Nature. The temperature on that day in November was a warm 70 degrees.

Today is sunny and about 25 degrees. Equally beautiful with clear air and soft light and the same artist's palette of blues and greens and browns. Simplicity of form and color is the depth and beauty of November.

I invite you to download a new piece of music called Mayan Fire. You will find this meditation of the new year and the new baktun to be life-giving for yourself as you bring in your own new year forces for success, happiness, peace. Here is the link: http://www.mayandream.com/samples/mayanfire.mp3.

This link is also on my home page along with the link to the description for this music (just check out the blog right below this one). Today, November 15th, Daily OM is featuring my album A Celebration of Life and Love. I really like their description of my journey and of the music. To share in this, click on http://www.dailyom.com. The special is on their home page. Here is a paragraph from that description:
"The spacious warmth of Rieger's piano recalls the work of Satie or Kitaro, melding classical minimalism and New Age influences on a naturalist's canvas. A few notes on a flute, a shaker, some chimes, and her piano-anything more would be superfluous against the soothing ambiance. A trace of serene melancholy and wistfulness hover in the air as her haunting melodies drift in and out of the flowing waters of nature, the unknowable but beautiful voice of an ecosystem that has endured long before and will endure (hopefully) long after man has come and gone to hear it. This sense of the eternal and transient - where each passing raindrop is felt even if we never see it and each rain forest bird call is already a ghostly echo captured in amber time - finds a truly beautiful voice in Beverly Rieger's A Celebration of Life and Love."

And finally, Saturday, November 24th is Small Business Day. There are ads all over the TV encouraging people to buy their holiday gifts at their local small businesses. The ads really are beautiful in portraying the small business owner's love of their work, and their commitment of time, energy and money into what they do. I thought that was awesome and, as a small business owner, want to fully support this effort. Love to all.

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