Good morning!
Thank you so much for all of your craft suggestions and telling me your words for the year. I love the dialogue we have and want to encourage more of that. Something I’ve been thinking about trying to facilitate since my Shall We Talk post from last year. I think I’m almost there. At the moment I am working hard to submit the text for the book. I have a deadline and it has to be met which is why I asked you the crafting question. When the book has been submitted I am once again free to come out and play. And play I shall. With crochet, fabric and knitting it would seem!!!
It’s an intense time and I still have to make time for my family so I need a way of escaping and relaxing that doesn’t require too much effort from me. I do this by being very selective about the types of music I listen to in the car. In the Summertime my music is very different from just prior to Christmas and it is very different when I am stressed or tense than when I am happy and carefree. Different Spotify playlists for different moods.
Right now I need the music to calm me and focus my mind. I need it to replenish my soul and enable me to dig deep and write the words for the book that I won’t mind reading back to myself in twenty years time. I don’t mind that the music is in many ways thought inducing. I think that is good, especially when I play this selection in the morning.
You see, Winter mornings in West Sussex are the most beautiful mornings that I can imagine and when I am out in my car, with or without the babies in the back, these mornings never fail to move me. The sun shines so brightly across the South Downs and lights up the silhouette of the bare trees and the small white sheep in the hillside. And it makes me so grateful to be alive and able to see those things because if you live in a city, which most of us do at one time or another, then that view is not one that you get to see very often. Mornings, in all their glory, make me believe in life again. So it’s only appropriate that they should have a suitable soundtrack to accompany them.
Enjoy. And do tell me if you like them or if you have some favourites too.
I love you and thank you so much for reading.
Cherry x
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Wonderful, varied, soulful choices. If you like chorale pieces, try this version of Sibelius’ Finlandia – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJWNLIQhYH0&feature=fvwrel. Or for longer rides – Bernstein performing Gershwin’s Rhapsody in blue. I loved your choices!
So beautiful. And I have to say the cold is not bothering me at all – not when there’s sunshine and sparkle, and a huge sofa and a fire at home to go with it
[...] A reason to enjoy the cold weather [...]
You should try something, well pretty much anything, by Ludvico Einaudi, it’s so lovely, really soothing and ot overwhelming like some classical is. x
Have followed you from the beginning Cherry but don’t comment often until I read my new White Co. catalogue and saw they have also been reading your blog. You were doing their linen cupbopard and table laying ideas back in Godallming. When are you going on T.V. ? Let everyone see how creative you are and have been.
What a lovely morning. I really need to start taking my camera in the car with me in the morning. On my drive to work I see so many gorgeous sunrises!
xx
Here’s one you might like Cherry – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr4FN_DOpSk – it’s called Le Onde (The Waves) by Ludovico Einaudi. A really beautiful piece I think – I am a big fan of the piano. As a complete contrast to this, and more for a spring morning than a winters one (for me anyway), I particularly like Wake Up Boo! by The Boo Radleys – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WumSB0vZ5l8. I’ve been singing the line ‘Twenty-five, don’t recall a time I felt this alive’ since before I WAS twenty-five, and will carry on singing it like I AM twenty-five – this is a really great feel good tune with the message that we should all be living life to the full every single day. Oh, and I love the very faint tinkle of an ice cream van in the background at around the 2.10 mark – old school summer.
Take care, Bex.x
sorry, the gate looks like the one across from me on our lane, thought you’d walked passed my house and took its photo…
I sooooooooooooo love frosty cold mornings, long walks then back home to sit in front of an open fire with a hot cuppa, cheeks glowing and a feeling of wellbeing..
off to Bronte country next weekend for a few days.. a good few walks on the wild and windy moors will be lovely,
jacqueline
there is somthing about classical music that touches my soul, opera too. The picture of the gate looks like then on across on my lane…I
I play George Winston when I need “calming down”, I love anything by him but one of my favorites is “Thanksgiving” -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNHs25qtAqI. The countryside there looks just amazing and peaceful, how fortunate you are to wake up to that!
Why when there is so much beauty in the world do we have to have war? Wouldn’t it be easier to love and enjoy all the great gifts we’ve been given? Music, nature, each other.
Percy Faith Theme from a Summer Place http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSsiS-v6_6M
When the dogs get me out particularly early in the morning, it is such a beautiful peaceful time.
I love early mornings too. The colder the better.
x
Hi Cherry,
I live in the city whilst I’m at university but my parents home is about a ten minute walk from the beach. I miss winter mornings walking my dog along a bright, frosty and empty beach. It’s so beautiful and too, makes me believe in life again. I hope your writing goes well! Thank you for the beautiful pictures
xxx
p.s I’m making your fabric easter eggs today! Feeling very organised!
xxx