Henry's Lament

Tulip Fields

Part Of A Whole

"The contemplation of beauty causes to soul to grow wings"
- Plato

Contemplation

ToiSeul

UNDONE

Inspirational Office Music

Dreamy Silence

I never met my paternal grandfather.  He died from a brain tumor at the age of 57, before I was born.  My father never talked about it, but my mother did.  In recounting my grandfather's illness and the family history she knew, she told me that when my grandfather was very young, he and his friends would go play in a number of nearby orange groves. Those groves were beautiful, spacious, and the oranges were free for the taking. Unfortunately, they were also heavily sprayed with pesticides during that time period. My mother believed that my grandfather's exposure to those pesticides most likely played a role in the cancer that took his life many years later.  At the time of his death, there was little attention paid to the notion that pesticide exposure could impact one’s health and longevity, so there was no discussion of the matter when he became ill.

I have often thought about his life, as well as my mother's words. While we'll never completely know what happened, we'll remember my grandfather and this chapter in his story.  There are lessons to be learned from it, as well as similar stories from others.  Our environment should not be harmful to health but should protect it.

This improvised composition was written to remember my grandfather's story.

The Orange Grove

Happy Easter.
I always love to hear those little snippets of music in feature films under the heading of the ‘underscore’ or ‘incidental music.’ In just under a minute, I’ve tried to recreate an interpretation of Mary finding Jesus resurrected on that first Easter Sunday.

Tell us, Mary, what did you see?
On that traumatic road to Calvary.
Our saviour broken and torn,
To set us free - to be reborn.

For when the others had strayed and gone
You were blessed to soldier on
The first witness of Christ in his glory
The perfect completion of the Gospel story.

Great Amen

Si Seulement

Hawks ode of gratitude to the squirrel

Henry's Lament

Heliotropic Iconoclast

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