MUSINGS...by Beverly Rieger

Outside my window a soft rain is falling. It is cool out today and the breeze is gentle. I am enjoying the pinks and purples and yellows of flower, and the deep green of the fully emerged leaves on trees. Mother Nature is at her creative best! Creativity is not meant to be hard, demanding, serious work. Often, we as artists, composers, writers become so deadly serious that our lives cease to be lived in joy, happiness, lightness of Spirit. For me, creating music is a spectacular fun! What a rush to be in the recording studio and have music flowing through me effortlessly. The editing process is equally gentle. Listening back to the music that I have just created, I can tell when something is at its potential or when it is wanting to be brought to a deeper level. These never feel like bad or good things, but simply the wonderful, joyful creative process. Writing of Musings is the same way. As I write this blog, I am in the same creative flow as when I create music...

Here is Mother Nature at her most beautiful...this photo taken in Fox Island while walking Retta last week. This week Deepening In Love: A Meditation On Love should be in duplication and back at my business for shipment. May your life this week be transformative and full of joy!

Here is Retta at one of her favorite activities....demolishing a ball. Most dog toys have lasted about 15 minutes. Retta came into our lives on April 1rst. She is a two year old female bundle of activity and curiosity with a love of walking out in the woods. We have become very close very quickly. She has a wisdom and a deep quiet beneath all of her delightful antics. She is the Mayan Dream Productions music dog, our family dog, very close to Walt and I, and she is teaching me many things about frolicking and lightness and unconditional love. Outside of our front garage door is a gorgeous crabapple in bloom with a regular apple tree winding around it also in full bloom. I wanted to share this unique beauty with you. Music-wise: Retta is music; the crabapple/apple tree is music. Wonderful vibrations of love in our world. WHAT ELSE IS NEW AT MAYAN DREAM PRODUCTIONS? The May appreciation (of all of you) sale is on....all CDs at $5.85 each which reflects a...

"Wisdom Sings Through Violet Beauty" is now up on my home page.....just waiting for you to enjoy. Actually, I composed this music several years ago for the birthday of a friend. So, it is with his permission (thank you!) that I make it available for you as a free download. Here is the quick link to my home page. www.mayandream.com Love to all.

Jason and Leah are marathon runners.....my family.....and I know the happiness and excitement of cheering on marathon runners, especially near the finish line. What a tragedy for those families who were at the front of the crowd at the finish line in the Boston bombing. Walt and I have been among those in Indianapolis and Chicago finish lines many times cheering on our runners. We send our love to all whose lives have been altered forever through death or injury from this bombing. What can I do? I have put together an album from all of my albums....focused on love....called Deepening In Love: A Meditation on Love by Beverly Rieger. LOVE.....the source of all life....the healer of all woundings...the blessing on our planet Earth in all life forms. As you and I meditate to this music, or listen to this music, our love moves out into the world. May this love bless all whose lives are impacted by violence, illness, injustice. Here is the artwork for the cover. Greg Beck to...

This is Fort Wayne on March 25th. What an absolutely gorgeous snowy day, but it's supposed to be Spring. Spring has a new look this year! It is snowing so hard outside with no sign yet of stopping. We will probably have 7 inches before this is all over. I would like to muse a little bit today about music as a force, as a spirit, as a soul in and of itself. Music is a vibration of love emanating from the Source of all love. As humans, we have been created in love, and our bodies vibrate with the resonance of the vibration of love. The inaudible vibration of music is all around us and within us. Science tells us that our human organs each radiate a distinct melody. They have been able to translate that melody into our musical notation. We know that inaudible vibrations create the form of a spiral and other beautiful shapes within the mineral, plant and animal worlds. For us human beings, the inaudible sound waves never reach our consciousness, but they affect our bodie...

I read a great article today from the former founder and owner of CDBaby, Derek Sivers . He was talking about how we humans need to reboot our lives regularly. We have a habit of saying that our way of looking at things or doing things is "just the way we are". We repeat the same processes in our lives over and over..sometimes with different outer covering, but really just the same basic life. I found myself doing just that thing these last weeks by saying that "I am one of those people who just need to be out and around people and who thrive on action." That was my excuse for not being comfortable with the quiet around me. I am totally self-employed and most of my contact with people is online. Lots of outer quiet. However, once I get past the "this is the way I am" excuse, (which I previously was not even aware was in my practice, thank you Derek for this awakening) I am finding that these days are changing my perceptions. The outer quiet is br...