MUSINGS...by Beverly Rieger

Technology is moving more quickly than I can keep up with!  It is the ever-changing language of music distribution.  When I receive a monthly statement of deposit for online sales now, it is mostly for streaming my music.  There is always some downloading of albums or tracks of albums, but downloading CDs and tracks of CDs is becoming a thing of the past. We will be taking the links down from our website that directly linked you, the customer, to i-tunes to download my albums and tracks from my albums.  I-tunes will no longer allow links from websites.  They are focused on streaming and want everyone to change from downloading to streaming.  Very interesting! Meanwhile, my customers have to go directly to i-tunes and search for my name.  Everything is there but it is harder for you to get to me to download from i-tunes. There are over 50 other digital sites that hold my music.  Some of the most popular that are attracting people to my music...

It's been almost three months since I have written to you, the reader, in this Musings.  That doesn't mean that you are not always in my awareness as I live my daily life.  Wisdom is at your core as light and it shines out and joins my core of light Wisdom.  We are one. The month of December was a transforming time of body, mind and spirit for me.  The Winter Solstice is my birthday, and this year it was my 70th birthday.  It was also the integration time of the new Wisdom Ablaze album in my body, mind and spirit; and also a month of a large concert with about 100 people involved as musicians and a beautiful and inspired audience of about 400.  All of this together brought me into a newness of life.   How cool is that!! This new wisdom body, mind and spirit is still growing with me.  My outer activities have had to change as my inner world changed.  Many things are simplifying so that I can become larger. Meanwhile, January is the m...

  The ongoing saga of a wisdom composer and performer..... Wisdom Ablaze is blazing out into the world! Wisdom Ablaze is now on i-tunes for you to download...either individual tracks or the entire album. And of course all of you reading this blog can order Wisdom Ablaze directly from me.  Just go to the home page of this website, and click on the order page link at the top to order a physical CD in digipack format.  You can also send me a note with your order via snail mail....and enclose a check. I'll send your CD back to you ASAP.  Be sure and give me your address for shipping. and also your e-mail address so I can acknowledge receiving your order. There is a beautiful new video up on You Tube which has the music of track one:  "We Call Forth Wisdom". Here is the link:  https://youtu.be/ivEK2ZMdIZU .  Tom Tempel has taken the photography of the trees that inspired this music, and the flutes that played,  and has used technology to "open...

HEART OF SKY…..track two of Wisdom Ablaze was captured in this sky photograph © Beverly. This last week I gave a copy of Wisdom Ablaze to my friend who cleans our carpets.  He has a fire pit in his back yard and spent three hours Thursday evening, in his words "Jammin' at the fire pit with Wisdom Ablaze. This is the livingness of this powerful music. CD Baby (based in Portland, Oregon) is now advertising Wisdom Ablaze on it's website:   "We here at CD Baby have got pretty good memories. And we just remembered that at some point in the not-too-distant past you purchased music by Beverly Rieger.    We commend your impeccable musical taste and wanted to let you know that Beverly Rieger has a brand new release out now. It just went live on our website for sale. And we just had to let you know FIRST since you're one of the few hip and wise people who "knew them way back when.   It is called Wisdom Ablaze. "     Here is the link to a beautiful n...

I love Autumn in Indiana.   We have the most beautiful colors and the crisp air of the first frost to revel in! I took the photo on your right as I looked down from the top of a dune in Fox Island onto Retta in the dappled sunlight.  Notice the pink rays of the sun.  Hmmm...isn't that amazing! The second photo was captured as I looked up into the trees in the late afternoon as the sun was illuminating the golden leaves.  They were brilliant in the sunshine. Looking down....looking up....seeing wisdom manifesting in profound beauty in ways that I often do not see.  I can be focused only on the things that are right in front of me....not seeing the larger picture.  Can anyone else relate to that?? Retta is the one who brings me into these walks, and brings me into the larger vision so often.     This is Wisdom Ablaze! in all of nature.                ...

It's such a beautiful morning in Fort Wayne.  The full moon is shining in a soft warm air...while a few clouds are blown across the moonlit sky.  The leaves on the silver maple are just starting to turn and in the moonlight, some are glowing red...all are glowing silver on their undersides. It's mid-October and we are expecting 83 degrees for the high today.  Because of the warm Autumn, all of our flowers are still in full bloom, and also glowing in the moonlight. As usual, I have my trusty cup of coffee at hand as I write Musings this morning.  Retta is keeping me company on the nearby couch.....soundly sleeping in doggy contentment. What will this week bring?  There are two new music videos coming in the mid-week.  One of them features the photos that I took of the forest trees that inspired the first track of Wisdom Ablaze .  So, you can watch the video, listen to the music of We Call Forth Wisdom , and experience the forest impacting you w...

Why has the new music of Wisdom Ablaze been created?  Why would you want to purchase and listen to the music of Wisdom Ablaze? Well........These are really difficult times in our world. Our world is struggling to find it's center.  We need strength, joy, compassion, love in our lives in a special way at this time in our world.  We can make a difference! Most of us have experienced the beautiful place of joy, love, compassion many times in our lives, and we have extended these wisdom qualities to other around us.  This is so important NOW.  And....my music supports your powerful ability for good in this lifetime. Listen to this new music of Wisdom Ablaze and let it support you!   This is my desire for all of you, and my own way of making a difference in our world towards wholeness. The one thing that surprised me in my own music was that Wisdom Ablaze is the peaceful, gentle music that it is.  The fire that is wisdom is not a destructive f...