MUSINGS...by Beverly Rieger

January-looking sky. Isn't it amazing how beautiful gray and soft light can be. Notice one tree has never dropped it's leaves, so this is not really a January photo (probably early December), but this is what it looks like most of the time right now. The sun peaks out of the clouds and we have beautiful black and grey on soft gray. Sometimes the ground is white with snow, and sometimes (like today) it is soft browns with a little white dabbling here and there. Mother Earth is SO beautiful in all her aspects. Taxes....it's astonishing how much good comes from doing my taxes. Of course, we are at the deadline again for Indiana Sales tax. And so I have to add up all of my income for the last year, subtract everything that is not applicable, and then pay sales tax to the State of Indiana on the rest. This is not a hard job this year because sales were REALLY low for all of my music. The why is not important....the fact is there is always an ebb and flow to every cr...

As usual, I am in my office in the early morning, listening to my music, and this time it is "Woven In Love" from the VIDA album and drinking a wonderful, hot cup of coffee. It's a Saturday and these are such nurturing days usually. Outside it is about 8 degrees and everything is covered with a thick blanket of snow. The sky is clear and the moon is crescent. All is well! I am struck by the ever-changing aspect of nature. In just 90 days this tree will be covered in pink and white blossoms....it will probably have a nest or two in it. Since I am a part of nature, my own physical form and my action out in the world also are ever-changing. That is always the "known" world for me: everything will move and dissolve and emerge and change...sometimes slowly and sometimes very quickly. Here in Indiana we can go in 24 hours from a place of ease of movement to no possibility of movement. All it takes is one deep snowfall or ice storm to make movement outside...

2009 was a very intense year. Our society experienced the recession...violence....and our response to these. We had the potential to become people with a vision that was of wisdom. 2010 feels like a year that continues this potential. The unseen world is supporting me into creativity and especially into the creativity of writing and teaching about my music. Daily life is about meditation and exercise and taking care of Mayan Dream Productions and opening to the larger vision of what is possible this year. My ministry with the Catholic Church has become part time, but will continue to allow me to be a musician at St. John's, Fort Wayne. Family and friends are of great importance....both in the world of the internet, and in the physical world of actually seeing one another in physical form. So what will this year 2010 bring? As usual, it is unknown in one sense. However, the known factor is that I will make the commitment to say "yes" to a more creative life tha...

It's very early in the morning and here I am again, with my hot cup of coffee, writing to all of you. We are almost in the middle of December and heading toward my birthday this month. As usual, it's amazing how fast time is going! With the release of new CDs Vida and Deep Snowy Nigh t comes the next part of the process of bringing music out into the world. I can write music and record music, but unless I communicate that music to the larger world, it stays inside my studio....with just me to listen to it. This week has seen the "advent" of new babies into the Rieger household. I have two new granddaughters and have loved seeing their parents welcome these new lives into their life. WOW! Now...onward to leading a concert this weekend that involves about 45 different musicians....that will be such a creative, exciting, spiritual, uplifting opportunity for me...and hopefully for all of them and for the audience. Love to all.

Vida is now out in the world. The most important blessing for me with this new music is that now I feel in a whole different way the love around me. Vida is about love. Before, I knew that life was all about love, but now I feel that I am loved in a tangible way. VIDA takes you on the journey of knowing the love that is all around us. It begins with the "Woven In Love" music. Our essence is love and that is what we are created from. Then "VIDA" celebrates the life that we are living....vibrant, alive. "Profound Love" is a feeling experience of connection to the Source of Love...relationship. Then we are breathed in joy through "Joyful Breath". Finally, the Tree of Life music is who we are and what we are called to embody as human beings. It's all about love. Two new newsletters were sent on line in the last two weeks: Chilam and Musings. It was so much fun creating these newsletters through Constant Contact. This is just another ...

Well.....it's not snowing yet although we have had a snow shower around 3AM on Friday morning. It's almost December.....where is the snow?? This last week there was no doubt that a window of opportunity and support had opened. I knew that VIDA and Deep Snowy Night had to be out by this weekend. Why did I know this? I just knew it, and it had nothing to do with Black Friday. So, Susan Stamm has been really busy with CD cover design and with marketing flyer design. I have been really busy with editing music, and creating a new newsletter that is an online event called Chilam, and with sending out electronic and snail mail invitations to all of this new music. Deep Snowy Night is an album of Christmas Music. We call this time of the solstice by different names, and we celebrate it in different ways. Our music sings of love and light and warmth and friendship....at this time we can choose to celebrate our oneness, or to get into fights about whose terminology is the right...

This is the area of Santiago Atitlan and the inspiration for the new VIDA music. There has been so much happening in my life in the last few weeks. It's truly amazing! The inner work that I have been doing is bearing fruit in a big way. I have clarity regarding projects and the energy to actually follow through. As a result, we are releasing two new CDs this week, along with the option for people to purchase MP3 files of one of the two albums: Vida. There is a new marketing newsletter that is online.....very cool looking and soon to be coming out to many of you. It's a very exciting time to be alive. This will be a short posting.....to be followed by a much longer one with more pictures. Many thanks to Conrad for allowing me to use his photo of the fire ritual for the Vida Album. More to follow later today maybe? Cheers!