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]]> ~baffledkingcomposing http://baffledkingcomposing.deviantart.com/journal/16649600/ http://baffledkingcomposing.deviantart.com/journal/16649600/ Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:12:36 PST went down to the beach (to play one day)

and maggie discovered a shell that sang
so sweetly she couldn’t remember her troubles,and

milly befriended a stranded star
whose rays five languid fingers were;

and molly was chased by a horrible thing
which raced sideways while blowing bubbles:and

may came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone.

For whatever we lose(like a you or a me)
it’s always ourselves we find in the sea

-- ee cummings

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all day long
they toss the dawn

and i know why.



- 12/26/07

]]> ~baffledkingcomposing http://baffledkingcomposing.deviantart.com/journal/15244847/ http://baffledkingcomposing.deviantart.com/journal/15244847/ Sat, 27 Oct 2007 14:25:35 PDT But sometimes they don't make sense
Refrigerator

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how fortunate I am to be here:

what a long dream this is the fulfillment of:

what a longer dream this is the start of:

when I think of my classes, my brilliant professors, my talented classmates, my school filled with the disproportionately bright of all races, races, creeds:

when I think of the opportunity I have to sing under Donald Neuen, one of the top chorus leaders in the world, and how his approaches to musical performance have changed me in two rehearsals:

when I listen to Dr. Steinberg's theory lectures and my whole conception of music shifts and reels, and clicks in place more securely:

when I stop and appreciate the weather, the mild climate, the cool evenings, the trees:

when I'm running in Drake and the pavement's on my feet and I'm thinking of music, or poetry, or better, the rhythm, the wind:

when I stop thinking and start *listening* to everything around me, a free meditation, an ever-present symphony:

when I think of the people I've met, the friends I've made and will keep making, the special people, my family, my friends from back home:

when I compare all of this to what I went through to get here: all of it:

and when I look from my quiet, often otherwise-unoccupied room out on the hills of Hollywood and beacon Getty:

or when I look from the Getty down on this place, or across it, to Los Angeles or to the sea:

then the only words I know to say are:

Gratias tuo, domine; gratias. Gratias deus.

And never before have I meant it as much.

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