The elevator is moving

Today I am listening to Vaughn Williams and the lark is ascending...


Someone somewhere chose some wood and nylon string and crafted a violin.
Someone somewhere chose a series of notes and placed them in an order and created a song.
Someone somewhere chose to give up their time to practice playing the violin and learn to play the song.


I chose to listen to the song.
This was one of my better choices.
My choice was rewarded with an ascension of mind and spirit. 


Other choices I have made have not been rewarded.
The choices were not bad ones.
They were not ill informed.
They were not malicious.
They were simply not rewarded.
They were simply my choices.


"I bid thee grapple chaos" said Ezra Pounds.
"I bid thee make choices" said Me.
"I bid thee choose to grapple the chaos, wrestle with it and sometime, somewhere, you will ascend.


You may only ascend a little way but in a world in constant descent this becomes important.


In 1727 Antonio Stradivari chose to make a violin
In 1914 Vaughn Williams chose to write The lark Ascending
In 2007 Janine Jensen chose to perform The lark Ascending on the Stradivari violin.
In 2010 I chose to listen.


The next 8 mins are all yours... enjoy.