Right Question?

It's a beautiful question - but your answer is wrong. 

Toyah Wilcox

What if I asked the right question,

heard the answer,

and was able to incorporate this into life?

Just might be a beautiful answer.

Photo by John Fowler

Now Where is That Question?

Curiosity killed the rut.  

Todd Henry

May I find the question(s) I did not know I need to be asking.

How to uncover/discover/recover the spark?

Listening

Reading

Walking

Conversing

Looking at Art or art

Being open

Collaborate

We know what & how to do this, so let us do the work.

Photo by PK

Asking

Day after day and throughout the day I have to ask for help with my practice.  What do I ask for?

- Help from Beyond

- guidance from those that have tread the path before me

- the clarity to see the next step

- the courage to take it.

Over and over, again and again.

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A Few Thoughts on Composition

First we borrow, then maybe even steal.  Are we learning?   While imitation is one path to learning composition, how about interrogation; investigation; sublimation; holding one's feeling and releasing;  or abandonment of it all.

Like playing with blocks, putting one note on top of another, and a few next to those.  A wall formed that is scaled by listening.  A window opened to new forms.  Ear lids moved by waves of sound and oceans of being.  And then we begin again.  Perhaps we question a melody or piece we have known before.  Why does it move in this direction, elicit this response?  What happens if I change a few notes, alter the rhythm?  What happens when I work in a new form?  I change, what else?  Can I allow my feelings to generate a piece of music?  Can I let it all go?  Keep asking questions?

One thing I know about composition - I'll be back at it tomorrow.

Photo by Steve Jurveston

What If?

What if I did not pick up my guitar tonight?

What if I only stayed with the known?

What if I truly allowed freedom to blossom within?

What if everyone stopped the pursuits they care about?

What if I stopped questioning myself?

Time to make my splash no matter how small.

Is it time to make yours?

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Question

:

                                                                           

                           ; where were you when it happened?





Photo by Barry Stock.

An Octave of Questions

Am I bound more by my knowledge or the lack thereof? 

Am I caught by my beliefs about knowledge? 

Are my habits useful? 

Am I bound by my thinking? 

Do I seek liberation in my thinking and thus my habits?

 Can I assume innocence? 

Am I aware?

Am I bound by my past or my expectations?


Photo by Sunica Markovic

A Question ; or two .

             ;   what came before?

! Really   ,                    ?

Could it Be?

The more I think or feel that I am lacking in time to effectively carry out what I want or need, the greater the value of choosing to do nothing?

Questions

 

For whom do birds sing?

For whom do I play music?

For what do we listen?

Why do we not sing more?

Do the questions frame the quest?

Questions

 The word question is derived from the Latin quarrier (to seek), which is the same root as the word for quest. A creative life is a continued quest and good questions can be very useful guides. Most useful are open-ended questions; they allow for fresh unanticipated answers to reveal themselves.  Unknown



Where does my quest for music lead me?  



               Why?




By touching the present moment what am I experiencing?




What serves to unleash the potential within?

                                             
                                                                                  Am I?


       What am I serving?




Where does music live?




What question best serves the quest?


                                                            Are habits - answers?