Troels - Walk in Beauty

"Who are you, really?"

Thursday, 12. November 2009, 06:45:26

The other day I received, through a mutual friend, a greeting from the only person that I remember ever having asked the question in this completely generic form.

Funnily, I do not know if he was really interested in getting to know the truth.

Quality music in the White House?

Tuesday, 6. October 2009, 10:08:42

music

In the early weeks of the Obama presidency I read that, among other plans, Barack and Michelle Obama intended to arrange concerts with jazz and chamber music in the residence of the US president. I thought that this sounded great, and I wrote some suggestions. I left the community for which it was originally intended, and it has since been buried in my hard disk, until I decided to publish it here.

Fading into silence

Sunday, 27. September 2009, 15:30:16

opera community

This blog is dying from indifference. Mine, and that of its potential readers.

There was a time when it was possible for me to nurture the illusion that my writings here, somehow, mattered. Not so anymore.

Keyword: Truth

Sunday, 27. September 2009, 14:23:34

philosophy

If I were to write a list of keywords to my personal reality, honesty and knowledge would not be there, but truth would.

Bed policy

Friday, 25. September 2009, 18:26:54

cats

My bed is barely large enough for me alone, but that does not seem to worry the cat family. At one stage last night all six of them were there:

Knowing your destiny?

Thursday, 24. September 2009, 18:57:51

psychology

I once read a story about a man who learned, through a mystical experience many years in advance, to know his destiny. He went insane under the burden of his knowledge.

I can relate to that.

Tuning yourself

Friday, 18. September 2009, 10:06:21

psychology

If you tighten the string too much, it will snap. And if you leave it too loose, it won't play.

Legend has it that prince Siddharta, later to be known as Buddha, sat at a tree near a river and overheard an old musician telling a pupil this basic truth about strings while they were sailing by on a boat.

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