Category Archives: Piano

What It Looks Like From Here Right Now.

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I have musical stuff going on again in addition to my solo projects, which is good news.  Yes regular interaction with real human beings again and I am very glad of it. I am still finding it very hard work generally to be honest after 2 years of lock down and the loss of people close to me.
Paradoxically I have found things more difficult now that most restrictions have been lifted.  Trying to not think about the situation in the Ukraine is hard. I have  watched a lot of news reports and wonder where its all going to end. The world seems broken right now. I had hoped that  being a bit busier would have kept the depression at bay, but this last week its come back suddenly with a vengeance.  I am keeping my self as busy as I can but things are feeling very flat again.  I have been working through the minor items on my to do list.  Some days you just have to keep going as its worse when you stop.  

Here is a solo piano tune.

Its weird, I was doing quite well mentally until about a week ago. Somethings knocked me off track. Not sure what it is to be honest as in relative terms on a personal level things are not going too badly overall. Perhaps to much introspection? I suspect Putin is not going any further than Ukraine regardless of what messages are sent out from the bunker. Railways are legitimate targets in war of course…. The Russians are not using weapons that can accurately hit targets Its almost ww2 era weaponry. Nothing like Exocet’s or drones that can accurately target. With modern weapons you can almost knock down one building and leave the next door one standing. They know the weapons are totally indiscriminate so shelling and shitty old school rockets can hit anywhere. But virtue of the fact that they know they cannot do accurate strikes, they also know the damage they will do to non non-combatants. So from an ethical stance its not much different to having the station in the cross hairs IMO that is.

I don’t think there is that much spin on reporting. My guess is the Ukrainians are slaughtering the Russian troops but who ever wins there will not be much left and it will need to be rebuilt but by whom?    I am having a lot of problems with aches and pains at the moment. I suspect because I have been sitting down using the computer too much recently.

I am going to do a few more Facebook live videos, it makes me feel a bit less isolated. particularly at the moment as I don’t feel that good about myself right now.

Diana Stone Sunny uplands

Maybe It’s Just Me

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Wow, Ukraine. I didn’t see that one coming. Just at the point where you think maybe it’s finally  getting better again. Strange days indeed. History repeats itself over and over again. On the home I am  a busy bee now and its all new beginnings and crossing fingers that that the fresh shoots will break through the soil with the various new musical ventures. I am a little nervous still and it will take me a while to get back in the saddle again.   The UK has just dropped its covid restrictions this week and what was mandatory is now advisory. How comfortable people are is a another matter of course, and if behaviour will change much initially. I suspect people will be slow at first and very cautiously lift the veil? Maybe, but we are only just out of February and what with storms and much else, “Easy does it” may still be the preferred approach.  I am slowly working through my legacy  projects and now I am about to tackle the “Delta Ladies” French Album finally as I have been   putting it off for the last 2 years or so for personal reasons. But I think the time has come. There is not a huge amount to be done on it actually, maybe an overdub or two on one track, and the rest will be mixing and editing mostly and the decks are clear to do it finally. I got totally confused about which recording interface to use as well but I have figured it all out now just about. 

Here is a recent Piano tune which I would like to dedicate to those in Ukraine struggling at this terrible time.

 

Away from music time ticks by a little faster perhaps than it did as we go into the third month of this year. This is a very uncertain time for the whole western world, lets hope we are all stil here in a couple of weeks time? I feel a bit “Cuban Missile Crisis, 9/11, we are all doomed” at the moment. Lets hope I am proved wrong. I wish I had more to say.

A Buddhist Prayer for Peace

May all beings everywhere plagued with sufferings of body and mind quickly be freed from their illnesses.
May those frightened cease to be afraid, and may those bound be free.
May the powerless find power and may people think of befriending one another.
May those who find themselves in trackless, fearful wildernesses – the children, the aged, the unprotected – be guarded by beneficent celestials, and may they swiftly attain Buddhahood. 

Hopefully I will see you out there somewhere.