it means never give up in life no matter how hard the challenges are

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Picture a wing of a stuffy college music building. A large cavernous rehearsal room with five more pianos than you’re used to seeing in one room. It’s dusk. A bass player and violinist are visible outside a thin glass window stage left. Inside, an empty stage space messily set up for other pieces on am electroacoustic music concert, and Jacob Barton, at a computer console, visible when you peek behind your right shoulder, alternately frustrated and beside himself with laughter at the failure of his intentions.

Capyfala

"Join us at the crossroads of thriving gardens and vibrant community: the Enos Park Neighborhood Gardens."

This is the soundtrack to the 2023 promo video for the garden.  Music by me and narration by Carey Smith.  Check out the video at https://youtu.be/v_3XHBqlJE4

Enos Park Neighborhood Gardens 2023 Soundtrack

14edo - MinuteSpiral

For digital piano and distorted sounds in 27edo!

Glow Worm Remembers (27edo)

over and beyond

trigger warning: violence

I have been cold.
I have known hunger.
I have been hit by a car.
I have miscarried a baby.
I have huddled in a dank basement while a tornado went over my head.

I have moved so many times, I have lost count.
I have been depressed.
I have been unemployed.
I have been struck by lightning, twice.
I have been shot at.
I have seen the lifeless body of a 3 year old carried away, a bullet in his forehead.
I still hear his mother screaming.

I have cried blood.
I have had scarlet fever.
I have drunk well water from under a Monsanto seed corn farm.
I have played in a creek a quarter mile downstream from a hog confinement factory.
I have eaten more red jello and raw hot dogs than anyone should.

I have been ostracized and alienated.
I have been distracted and lonely, mesmerized by screens.
I have stood in the bottoms, water flowing around my ankles, wondering if I 	should stay, or if I should make a break for it.
I have seen a river become a lake in my backyard so big I couldn't see to the other side.

I have been in car accidents.
I have eaten out of dumpsters.
I have crossed paths with blind fury.
I have heard the hot moist breath in my ear, saying, “Be quiet.  If he finds us here, he'll kill us.”
I have chosen homelessness, walking out with only the clothes on my back.
I have been punched in the face by my own mother.

* 

I say these things, not to evoke pity, but to tell you:
I did not come to this Earth to be beaten down.
I did not come to this Earth to be crushed under the heel of circumstance.
I do not quiver with fear.
I do not hide in fate's shadow.

I flourish!
I thrive!

There is a fire in my belly that cannot be extinguished.
It fills me with love and healing,
with a yearning to defy the odds of my survival with grace,
with an appreciation of beauty that cannot be quashed.
I am not afraid of anything.
Lousy presidents, ice caps melting?

I'm going to be here, standing my ground.
My heart is liberated territory.
My love is wide.
My care is deep.
I am a cornerstone.
I am here to strengthen, comfort and heal.
And not just myself.

My eyes see the garden under my feet.
My ears hear the rhythms of gaia, the language of the living world.
My mouth sings in appreciation and gratitude.
My hands are open in invitation.
I worship the ground I walk on.

If I can witness the beauty and wonder of this world, 
if I can let it envelop me in its love, anyone can.
You can.

Over And Beyond

Carey Smith Poet

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