MUSINGS...by Beverly Rieger

How can this be! We are almost halfway through September. The air is beautiful this morning...crisp and clean and cool. The frogs and crickets are quiet and a calm has come over everything. This is my favorite time when all of the day is still potential and the excitement is in the unknown. What is going on in the life of a self-employed musician right now?? I realized that it's been a while since I have actually played a musical instrument. So, today I am picking up my guitar and my drums and PLAYING music. Time moves so quickly that I personally can get caught so up in the paperwork and other basic stuff of running a business that I forget what is the center of my creative life....actually playing music. My Kurzweil keyboard is going to feel like I have forgotten it. Poor thing! Does anyone else go this through this?? We are headed toward the change of the baktun in the Mayan long count. As you know, I am connected to the Maya through many personal experiences...

September is on its way with its change of seasons.....announced with storms to bring the cooler weather. Birds begin to flock for their flights south. Spring and summer flowers give way to mums and asters and other flowers of the Autumn season. The air feels crisp and the light begins to change texture. Ancient/Future Symphony will be the featured album for the month of September. This is my favorite music of all the music that I have composed and recorded. And.....the total album was recorded within 8 hours of studio time! Obviously Ancient/Future Symphony already existed as part of me, and I simply had to open up and let the music flow. This blog writing is called Life Continues and Ancient/Future Symphony is a celebration of life beyond our life in physical form. We are spirit, we come into physical form, and we return to spirit. Our life force extends through generations. Everyone has a different idea of what "spirit" means, and what our life her...

Well.....I just wrote an entire gorgeous Musings and blogspot deleted the entire thing before I could publish it. They are very sorry! So, obviously it wasn't anything that you were supposed to read. There is a lot of laughter coming from my office right now at 3:52AM! I am hearing the sound of a train whistle in the distance. This is one of my favorite sounds....maybe because it makes me want to hop on and travel and explore and find the next excitement. Ahhhhh..... Last evening I watched the closing ceremonies of the Olympics with total awe. They were spectacular in their creativity which pushed the edges of beauty in color and design and music and dance. I can only imagine the months and months of imagination poured out and the weekly (and then daily I'm sure) practice of thousands of people, who brought their time and talent without any financial reward but just the sheer joy of being a part of this glorious event. It was so beautiful and inspiring!! For...

Well.....here I am again writing at 2:37AM. There seems to be a pattern developing here of immense creativity in the middle of the night, and then sleep sometime in the middle of the day. That's OK with me if it's OK with my body. We are coming into a full moon again and the beauty of that light, along with the song of the night creatures is lovely beyond compare. Sometimes I try something and it doesn't work at all. The new e-mail address called storiesforbeverly@yahoo.com was one of those "doesn't work" things. It sounded like such a good idea, but it was met with a resounding silence. So.....it's gone into that vast graveyard of not so good ideas. But my philosophy is, if you don't try an idea you can't know if it's a winner or not. Storiesforbeverly@yahoo.com is gone. However, the comments option on my Musings blog is still very much open, as is my own e-mail address of mayandream@gmail.com. The EDGEWALKER music is on the hom...

We had rain last week and now the frogs are back! As usual, I am in my office writing with my hot and delicious cup of coffee at hand, and the windows wide open to the night. It is only 3:30AM here, so the night life is in full swing. Loud is the song of peepers, and larger frogs, and crickets and all sorts of other life forms that I can't identify. Their concert is absolutely gorgeous. It is the beginning of a new work week. Much of my time today will be spent outside in the midst of the concert of the night, and the concert of the day, as I prepare for the week to unfold. FREE LINK for EDGEWALKER music: 8:33 minutes. On Wednesday, the music of EDGEWALKER will be found on the homepage of this website. It will be free for your download. From silence....the electronic OM builds.....the Mayan flute is played by the ancients through my own lips...intensity grows with the realization of support from the unseen world. Flat drum echoes the sounds of nature's nigh...

This month I am featuring The Journey of Joy CD and so have had the fun of going back through all of the stories that people have sent me about this music. Listening to The Journey of Joy is a delight this morning. It is inspiring my writing, and also the marketing flyer that will go out this week for the "snail mail" announcements of the July special. The photo with this Musings is pure joy (copyright (c) Leah Welty-Rieger. All rights reserved). When I composed the music for A Journey of Joy in 2003, I remember wondering how the music of JOY could be so gentle....it seemed that it should be much more exuberant and outwardly lively....and yet, it was soft, and meditative, and very Mayan in its sounds. As I look at this photo of innocence expressing absolute joy, and her love of the nature that surrounds her, I begin to understand the deeper aspects of joy. Joy…..a manifestation of love. Joy…..a radiance from the soul. Joy….an expression of connection with “all ...

The dawning is just barely arriving and the light is outlining the leaves outside my office window in a white light. The birds are beginning to awaken....little chirps....contented birds! This photograph is from the pine forest near Muskegon, Michigan. It is alive with the light of sun beaming onto trunks and branches. Here in Fort Wayne it is already 80 degrees at 6AM and we are headed to 103 degrees today. The air is thick with carbon from the fires in Colorado, and very still. We were on vacation with family last week, just arriving home on Saturday after a Derecho devastated Fort Wayne on Friday afternoon. What is a derecho? Hurricane force winds that extend for a period of time and over a long distance. Our winds were 91 miles per hour, and this particular derecho went all the way to the East Coast. This weather keeps reminding me of the interconnectedness of all things. We are affected by the fires in the West, and we are joined all the way to the East Coast i...