Name: Bridget Jones's Diary by On Being Studios
Duration: 22 min 58 s
Description: For Samantha Powell, the pressure to be the perfect adult felt like a stranglehold. But this all changed with Bridget Jones’s Diary. The movie loosened the grip of perfectionism, and taught her she didn’t need to be flawless to be happy.

Recorded at the 2022 Universe in Verse — an annual charitable celebration of the wonder of reality through stories of science winged with poetry, created and hosted by Maria Popova.

Poem text and context: https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/05/20/trees-at-night-helene-johnson-rebecca-solnit

POEM TEXT / CONTEXT

The Universe in Verse: Rebecca Solnit Reads "Trees at Night" (1925) by Helene Johnson

Poem text and context: https://www.themarginalian.org/2023/01/11/let-this-darkness-be-a-bell-tower-rilke

Music: Bach Cello Suite No. 5 in C Minor, performed by Colin Carr

Art: Arthur Rackham, 1926

"Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower" by Rainer Maria Rilke (read by Maria Popova)

DISCLAIMER: music and video belong to their respective owners and is not owned by me.

Poem By David Whyte For John O'Donohue, music Secret Garden, voice M.J. Hummingway

The bulk of volcanic Mount Meru dominates the Arusha landscape in equatorial East Africa. Looking out from its forested slopes toward the east, its sister volcano, Mt. Kilimanjaro, can be seen on the horizon some 70km distant.

This recording begins in silence under a canopy of tropical forest in the hours before dawn. From far away comes a barely audible murmuring; the huffing of distant colobus monkeys. Like a mexican wave, the sound grows closer, with each successive troupe around the base of the mountain waking the next, until a family of monkeys in the trees overhead begin calling; a wonderful, gruff, barking chorus.

Then it falls silent again. Bush babies call occasionally in the darkness. Soon the dawn birdsong begins, the air becoming filled with the sounds of greenbuls, flycatchers, sunbirds, and groups of colourful turacos which vocalise loudly as they scurry along high branches. Silverey-cheeked hornbills wing overhead, and diurnal cicadas begin buzzing. Birds move around the forest, as do the colobus monkeys, now active and clambering noisily around the treetops.

By late afternoon, other birds are heard, including the dusk singing of an olive thrush. The colobus give their evening chorus and the forest moves imperceptibly into the night.

3 minute audio sample from the 118 minute nature sound album; "Equatorial Africa - The Forests of Arusha", available for download from http://www.listeningearth.com/LE/p-131

Equatorial Africa - The Forests of Arusha - Album Sample

I've been recording this piano record in my living room with a lovely American made Charles Walter upright piano that I found on Craigslist - or maybe it found me - but this record captures three weeks in June when I create some compositions with it and added a few string parts as well.  Enjoy.

An advance look 
Music by East Forest
Recorded in Portland Oregon in my living room.




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Provenance

"Everlasting" - a poem by David Whyte, from his new book of poetry, "The Bell and The Blackbird."

The Bell and The Blackbird

Everlasting - DavidWhyte

For Samantha Powell, the pressure to be the perfect adult felt like a stranglehold. But this all changed with Bridget Jones’s Diary. The movie loosened the grip of perfectionism, and taught her she didn’t need to be flawless to be happy.

This Movie Changed Me

Bridget Jones's Diary

Recorded on the Mill Rainforest Walk in D'Aguilar National Park approx.45min after Sunrise, near Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

Head-worn DPA 4060 microphones with Sound Devices MixPre-D & Sony PCM M-10

Rainforest Stream

Unity Breath Meditation

September 2016, The Matang Range, Sarawak, Borneo.

Pool ( Dusk to night )

An old forest in central Sweden with woodpeckers drumming

Woodpeckers in early Spring, Sweden

Groundbreaking Peabody Award-winning conversation about the big questions of meaning, hosted by Krista Tippett. Every Thursday a new discovery about the immensity of our lives — and frequent special features like poetry, music and Q + A with Krista.

Bridget Jones's Diary

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