Ephemera
Random finds, quirky articles, and anything that capturing my attention at the moment. It’s a place to share fleeting moments and capture a snapshot of the world around us.
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“Have support and share the load.” “Groups feel drained and not as drained.” “Burn out is a real thing. The people who need the most empathy can often feel the most shut out of receiving it”. “Remember to love yourself too and let others feel your pain.”
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The Doll’s Funeral by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Children’s Album, Op. 39 Tchaikovsky’s follow up piece to The Sick Doll. Sometimes translated as “The Doll’s Burial”. Also on: Tumblr
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Pavane de la Belle au bois dormant: Lent (Pavane of Sleeping Beauty) by Maurice Ravel From Ma mère l’Oye (Mother Goose) Originally for one piano four hands, the piece was transcribed for solo piano by Ravel’s friend Jacques Charlot the same year as it was published (1910). Five years later, Ravel dedicated the first movement…
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Maurice Ravel is one of my favorite composers. He composed this simple piano piece at the request of Gabriel Fauré for a sight-reading test at the Paris Conservatoire Ravel dedicated the composition to Jeanne Leleu, the winner of the competition
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“Action is identity. You have to do the verb to become the noun.” Source: Chase Jarvis Exposes The Myth Of The Creative Calling
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“The more notes we’re getting, the better. “That’s a sign that people are invested and that they want to go forward.” “If we’re treating the notes as part of the process of making things better, it’s much easier to handle things in a positive way.” “This is a team effort. People at the studio, the…
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“Most fundamentally, the past is done. Gone. Over. “If you had some major disaster in July, the time to deal with it and learn from was in July. “If you have a major success in May, that’s the point to analyze what worked. “Not in November or December many months later. “We can’t change the…
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“Pure circumstances are circumstances without language. “Most of us think our ideas about things are the things themselves. “We mistake our stories for the things. “We mistake our interpretation for the thing. We start having relationships with our stories instead of the things.” “You have thoughts about me. There are things you like about me.…
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“This is the essence of a huge vast study: Happiness is love. “The key to finding love is having a coping style that doesn’t push love away. “Every single one of us needs help with that. We all push love away. “The grand task of life is to know how we push love away and…
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“People do things and an obliger is shocked and appalled by something someone else does. And everyone else thinks it’s fine.” “An obliger is like: If you can’t be a citizen of humanity and wash out your own dish, you’re a thoughtless and soulless barbarian.” “Questioners are like: It’s not efficient.” “An upholder is like:…