Sagan discusses the story of the Heike crab and artificial selection of crabs resembling samurai warriors, as an opening into a larger discussion of evolution through natural selection (and the pitfalls of intelligent design). Among the topics are the development of life on the Cosmic Calendar and the Cambrian explosion; the function of DNA in growth; genetic replication, repairs, and mutation; the common biochemistry of terrestrial organisms; the creation of the molecules of life in the Miller–Urey experiment; and speculation on alien life (such as life in Jupiter's clouds). In the Cosmos Update ten years later, Sagan remarks on RNA also controlling chemical reactions and reproducing itself and the different roles of comets (potentially carrying organic molecules or causing the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event).

Cosmos Part II - One Voice In The Cosmic Fugue

Also available as a Video:
https://youtu.be/dTlxK_lU3Us

I would like to thank all the commenters and listeners, "Likes" and "Plays". I was not aware when composing what this song triggers in some. So many, many thanks to ALL 💖

the second part is in progress ; ))
I hope you have some patience?
😊

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Remember The Promise You Made

The voyages of the Voyager program are contrasted with those of the Dutch in the 17th century, with their long tradition of explorers and thinkers, such as Constantijn Huygens and his son Christiaan. Their discoveries are compared with the discoveries of the Voyager probes (Jupiter and Saturn moons).

Die Reisen des Voyager-Programms werden denen der Niederländer im 17. Jahrhundert gegenübergestellt, mit deren langer Tradition der Entdecker und Denker, so zum Beispiel Constantijn Huygens und dessen Sohn Christiaan. Deren Entdeckungen werden mit den Entdeckungen der Voyager-Sonden verglichen (Jupiter und Saturn Monde).

Cosmos Part VI - Traveller's Tales

Video 🎬 https://youtu.be/dTlxK_lU3Us

"Love is a gift from the innermost soul to another so that both can be whole."

The keys of true love (Part I):

💕💜💕

The fire teaches you never to poison true love with barriers and restrictions. Rules in a relationship can be helpful as long as they do not restrict you and the love of your life. So it is important to experience the true love of your life with freedom. Freedom also means allowing the love of your life to make mistakes and not expecting him/her to do the same thing that you do. Fertilize your true love with the flame of freedom and the spark of joy.

the five elements of love | part one - fire

As the law gives the diadem and the crown as a symbol of the ruler's dignity, so nature gives the gray hair.

plutαrch σf chärσnєα (45 - 120), grєєk phílσsσphєr, hístσríαn αnd cσnsul σf grєєcє

Wie das Gesetz das Diadem und die Krone als Symbol der Herrscherwürde verleiht, so die Natur das graue Haar.

plutαrch vσn chärσnєα (45 - 120), gríєchíschєr phílσsσph, hístσríkєr und kσnsul vσn gríєchєnlαnd

Our Older Days

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A collaboration of the most wonderful kind. Thank you for that!

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The Story behind...
A woman in her mid-twenties notices something very strange happening to her. Her husband - a simple fisherman - does not return one day from his early morning trip on his fishing boat. She asks the fishermen docked at the harbour for help. Evasively and fearfully, however, they turn their backs on her, and in her helplessness she takes one of the runaway fishermen's boats, not knowing how to steer it. She steers out of the harbour into the open sea, unaware of where her husband might be. Suddenly, the boat's diesel engine goes out and the boat sails shallowly with the current. Beside the waves crashing on the bow, she hears strange voices whispering something to her. "You are a banshee and your husband is cursed. No man who has ever seen a banshee will survive!"

Putting everything into finding her husband, she starts the boat's engine again. Chugging softly at first, then gurgling continuously, it drives her boat further and further away from the shore. Waves as high as houses that never existed in their little fishing village crash up, the sea piles up, rebels with all its might against their advance. The storm is so violent that she holds on to the ropes with all her might. But all that was no use. She was swallowed by a huge wave and thrown into the sea, dragged down into a whirlpool of unconsciousness.

At some point she woke up on a beach that seemed endless. To the right and to the left it seemed to have no end. A small crab dug itself out of the sand at her feet. Lifting her feet to avoid it, she suddenly heard her husband's voice: "I'm long gone!" And there, where just a moment ago the crab was spitting out the little balls of sand, was a skull. It was her husband's. There echoed the words of the stale shells that once spoke to her: "You are a banshee...!"

Since then, she has walked up and down this beach, waiting for her husband to return....

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Banshee (feat. Philleann)

"Love is a gift from the innermost soul to another so that both can be whole."

The keys of true love (Part II):

💕💜💕

The water teaches you never to poison true love with pain. If the love of your life ever feels mental or physical pain, the first commandment is to comfort her with your compassion and empathy. Compassion here is meant as sympathetic and based on your understanding of the pain. True to the maxim, "A sorrow shared is a sorrow halved," this will strengthen and nurture true love.

the five elements of love | part two - water

Composed and arranged by Frank Mehl
Original Lyrics by Tony Pickett
Vocals by Tony Pickett (formerly known as "Blue Night Chill")

Instrumental Version: 
https://soundcloud.com/user-92853963/melancholy?si=51e89ed2cf3040c58f5f218bc3a1eeaf

Thanks for the wonderful collab. Thank you! I appreciate that.
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She had a style and grace like butterflies, butterflies
And she was beautiful like a ray of light, pretty butterfly, butterfly

It was you who kept me reaching for the limits of the sky
I'll always believe in how you tried, butterfly

Even though your gone away, no one could ever take your place
For the rest of my days
You taught me how my life should be, overcame impossibilities 

We, we'll never say goodbye, you will always be a part of me
You were my favorite symphony  
And we, we'll meet up once again, in a time when life will never end
How it will be then

No one ever could deny, how you always seem to paint the skies
Like a million pretty butterflies...

…

Sie hatte einen Stil und eine Anmut wie Schmetterlinge, 
Schmetterlinge
Und sie war wunderschön wie ein Lichtstrahl, hübscher Schmetterling...

Sie haben mich dazu gebracht, nach den Grenzen des Himmels zu greifen
Ich werde immer daran glauben, wie du es versucht hast, Schmetterling.

Obwohl du weg bist, könnte niemand deinen Platz einnehmen
Für den Rest meiner Tage
Du hast mir beigebracht, wie mein Leben sein sollte, Unmöglichkeiten überwunden

Wir werden uns nie verabschieden, du wirst immer ein Teil von mir sein
Du warst meine Lieblingssinfonie
Und wir werden uns wieder treffen, in einer Zeit, in der das Leben niemals enden wird
Wie wird es dann sein

Niemand konnte jemals leugnen, wie man immer den Himmel zu malen scheint
Wie eine Million hübscher Schmetterlinge...

Melancholy (𝒻𝑒𝒶𝓉. 𝒯𝑜𝓃𝓎 𝒫𝒾𝒸𝓀𝑒𝓉𝓉)

DISCO CAT has been undercover at the dog groomer to hear the latest gossip. Rumor has it that the Alliance is trying to bring down DISCO CAT. A PUTCH??? He'd much rather have a PUNCH! Instead, he's squatting here with four women who have horrible papillotes stuck in his fur - in PINK!

Maybe he can persuade Space Cat not to turn off her cat ears for once and tell her what's going on in the quadrant! After he had heard enough and had solved all crossword puzzles in the booklets of the display of the waiting room, he mounted his keyboard for a trip to the small hidden moon Caterpillar. There's plenty of lithium to be picked up there for his keyboard's batteries....and fish!

The adventure is not over...?

DISCO CAT war Undercover beim Hundefriseur, um sich den neuesten Klatsch und Tratsch anzuhören. Man munkelt, dass die Allianz versuchen will, DISCO CAT zu stürzen. EIN PUTSCH??? Ein Punsch wäre ihm viel lieber. Stattdessen hockt er hier mit vier Frauen, die fürchterliche Papilloten ihm Fell stecken haben - in PINK! Vielleicht kann er Space Cat überreden, einmal ihre Katzenohren nicht auf Durchzug zu stellen und ihr stecken, was denn so läuft im Quadranten?! Nachdem er genug gehört hatte und alle Kreuzworträtsel in den Heften der Auslage des Wartezimmers gelöst hatte, bestieg er sein Keyboard für einen Ausflug auf den kleinen versteckten Mond Caterpillar. Dort gibt es jede Menge Lithium zu holen für die Batterien seines Keyboards….und Fisch!

Das Abenteuer ist nicht zu Ende…?

DISCO CAT - The Alliance Is Wobbling

"Love is a gift from the innermost soul to another so that both can be whole."
The keys of true love (Part III):

💕💜💕

The air teaches you never to poison true love with unhappiness. If the love of your life is ever unhappy, your top priority should be to sow happiness back into the relationship. Because the filial self, which can enjoy many small things, helps your relationship to focus on the small, subtle and important things of true love.

Die Luft lehrt Dich, die wahre Liebe niemals mit Unglück zu vergiften. Sollte die Liebe Deines Lebens jemals unglücklich sein, so sollte es Dein oberstes Bestreben sein, die Glückseligkeit wieder in die Beziehung zu sähen. Denn das kindliche Ich, das sich an vielen kleinen Dingen erfreuen kann, hilft Deiner Beziehung, sich auf die kleinen, feinen und wichtigen Dinge der wahren Liebe zu fokussieren.

the five elements of love | part three - air

The holy ray of light, which I withstood, would have destroyed me with its sharpness, I think, if I had turned my eyes away from it. And I remember how boldly I endured the light, until at last my vision joined the infinite. Your abundant grace gave me courage to lower my gaze into the eternal light so deeply that I succeeded in gazing - until exhaustion. In its depth I saw inwardly in a bond of love what is unfolding outside in the universe.... We are so caught by this light that we never turn away from it to something else with good will! Because the good, the goal of our will, meets all in this light. What is perfect here, becomes defective outside.

"Dante Alighieri"

Der heilige Lichtstrahl, dem ich standhielt, hätte mit seiner Schärfe, glaub ich, mich zerstört, hätt' ich die Augen von ihm abgewandt. Und ich erinnre mich, wie um so kühner ich dann das Licht ertrug, bis endlich sich mein Schauen dem Unendlichen verband. Du überreiche Gnade gabst mir Mut, ins ewige Licht den Blick so tief zu senken, daß mir das Schaun gelang - bis zur Erschöpfung. In seiner Tiefe sah ich innerlich in einem Liebesbunde, was sich draußen im Universum auseinanderfaltet... Von diesem Licht werden wir so gefangen, daß wir hinweg von ihm nach etwas anderem mit gutem Willen nimmermehr uns kehrten! Dieweil das Gute, unsres Willens Ziel, sich all in diesem Lichte trifft. Was hier vollkommen ist, wird draußen fehlerhaft.

Out Into The Bright

KATZENJAMMER (English: Cat's Whine, Feline: Meeeow-mi)
a planet in the third quadrant, near Neptune 9
diameter: 27,000 miles
population: 1,350,000 cats...and other beings
Language: Purr

There is no water on this planet (although cats like fish). Their technology is so advanced that cats simply extend their claws in dusty places - and BANG... something caught. And be it only a sand rose or an ant lion. Similar to the brown and grizzly bears known here on our planet, which go into a frenzy in Alaska's rivers at salmon run time. On the other hand, the cats on Katzenjammer are constantly in a frenzy! That's probably because of the chocolatey cat tongues that are only sold under the table. The cuddly ones - of course! The proximity to the planet Neptune 9 (a pure water planet) may surprise many, but it is from there that the inhabitants of Katzenjammer get most of their goods: willow kittens (from which mainly cat baskets for sleeping are made) and otherwise the infrastructure of the planet is excellent. The little kitties also learn how to build business relationships. A main customer for products such as Leopard, Puma or Jaguar, is a planet in the quadrant ZERO FIVE; very ego-centered and with intelligence little endowed beings...but this leads too far. Let's enjoy the song - and at the same time anthem - "Katzenjammer"!!!!

Thank you 🎆✨😻😼

KATZENJAMMER (Englisch: Cat’s Whine, Kätzisch: Meeeow-mi)
ein Planet im dritten Quadranten, nahe Neptun 9
Durchmesser: 27.000 Meilen
Bevölkerung: 1.350.000 Katzen...und sonstige Wesen
Sprache: Purr

Auf diesem Planeten gibt es kein Wasser (obwohl Katzen Fisch mögen). Ihre Technologie ist so weit fortgeschritten, dass die Katzen an staubigen Plätzen einfach ihre Krallen ausfahren - und ZACK… irgendetwas gefangen. Und sei es nur eine Sand Rose oder ein Ameisenlöwe. Ähnlich den hier auf unserem Planeten bekannten Braun- und Grizzlybären, die in Alaskas Flüssen zur Zeit der Lachsschwärme in einen Rausch verfallen. Andererseits sind die Katzen auf Katzenjammer ständig im Rausch! Das liegt vermutlich an den schokoladigen Katzenzungen, die nur unter der Hand verkauft werden. Der kraulenden - versteht sich! Die Nähe zum Planeten Neptun 9 (ein reiner Wasserplanet) mag viele überraschen, doch gerade von dort beziehen die Bewohner von Katzenjammer die meiste Ware: Weidenkätzchen (hieraus werden hauptsächlich Katzenkörbe zum Schlafen hergestellt) und ansonsten ist die Infrastruktur des Planeten hervorragend aufgestellt. Auch die kleinen Kätzchen lernen, wie man Geschäftsbeziehungen aufbaut. Ein Hauptabnehmer für Produkte wie z. B. Leopard, Puma oder Jaguar, ist ein Planet im Quadrant NULLACHTFÜNFZEHN; sehr Ich-bezogene und mit Intelligenz wenig bemittelte Wesen…aber dies führt zu weit. Lasst uns das Lied - und zugleich Hymne - „Katzenjammer“ genießen!!!!

Danke 🎆✨😻😼

Katzenjammer

"Love is a gift from the innermost soul to another so that both can be whole."

The keys of true love (Part IV):

💕💜💕

Earth teaches you never to poison true love with your anger. If the love of your life should ever be angry with you, conquer it with the truth. For anger develops from unresolved events and develops on the basis of transfigured knowledge. Therefore, do not go on the path of anger, but on the path of muse and understanding. Attention to desires and unspoken things breaks anger and transforms it into open communication and true love.

Die Erde lehrt Dich, die wahre Liebe niemals mit Deiner Wut zu vergiften. Sollte die Liebe Deines Lebens jemals auf Dich wütend sein, so erobere sie mit der Wahrheit. Denn Wut entwickelt sich aus ungeklärten Begebenheiten und entwickelt sich auf Basis verklärtem Wissens. Deshalb begebe Dich nicht auf dem Pfad der Wut, sondern auf den Pfad der Muse und des Verständnis. Aufmerksamkeit für Wünsche und unausgesprochenes bricht die Wut und wandelt sie zu offener Kommunikation und wahrer Liebe.

the five elements of love | part four - earth

I'll try to mix this song again soon (maybe in a year ;)). There are too many compressors and limiters here, but they condition the overall mix...But this is what it is all about:

𝐻𝒶𝓅𝓅𝒾𝓃𝑒𝓈𝓈 𝒾𝓈 𝒶𝓃 𝒶𝒻𝒻𝑒𝒸𝓉 𝓌𝒽𝒾𝒸𝒽 𝒾𝓃𝒸𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓈𝑒𝓈 𝑜𝓇 𝓈𝓊𝓅𝓅𝑜𝓇𝓉𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒷𝑜𝒹𝓎'𝓈 𝓅𝑜𝓌𝑒𝓇 𝓉𝑜 𝒶𝒸𝓉; 𝓈𝒶𝒹𝓃𝑒𝓈𝓈, 𝑜𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝑜𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝒽𝒶𝓃𝒹, 𝒾𝓈 𝒶𝓃 𝒶𝒻𝒻𝑒𝒸𝓉 𝓌𝒽𝒾𝒸𝒽 𝒹𝒾𝓂𝒾𝓃𝒾𝓈𝒽𝑒𝓈 𝑜𝓇 𝒾𝓃𝒽𝒾𝒷𝒾𝓉𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒷𝑜𝒹𝓎'𝓈 𝓅𝑜𝓌𝑒𝓇 𝓉𝑜 𝒶𝒸𝓉 - 𝒽𝑒𝓃𝒸𝑒, 𝒽𝒶𝓅𝓅𝒾𝓃𝑒𝓈𝓈 𝒾𝓈 𝒹𝑜𝓌𝓃𝓇𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝒹.

𝘉𝘢𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘥𝘦 𝘚𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘰𝘻𝘢 (1632 - 1677), 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘉𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘴 𝘥'𝘌𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘰𝘻𝘢, 𝘋𝘶𝘵𝘤𝘩 𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘦𝘳

Die Fröhlichkeit ist ein Affekt, welcher des Körpers Macht zu handeln vermehrt oder unterstützt; die Traurigkeit ist dagegen ein Affekt, welcher des Körpers Macht zu handeln mindert oder hemmt – folglich ist die Fröhlichkeit geradezu gut.

Baruch de Spinoza (1632 - 1677), eigentlich Benedictus d'Espinoza, holländischer Philosoph

A Colourful Life

https://refx.com/nexus/expansion/hollywood-piano/

Played with:

PN Yamaha C7 Grand Master 3Vel 5RR
Tempo 77 - 85 BPM
Melody and bass track recorded separately
Two tracks, No Limiter, No compression
DAW: FL Studio 20x
Reverb: The Venue
used "input machine" - Keyboard: 
nektar
Impact LX 61+

Only a few years after Beethoven's death, the poet and music writer Ludwig Rellstab associated the first movement of the sonata with a boat trip at night on a lake. It was Rellstab who coined the name "Moonlight Sonata".
With its melancholy mood, Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata is considered a precursor of musical romanticism. Beethoven didn't call it that himself. He called it 'Quasi Una Fantasia' because he switched the traditional movement sequences. Normally, a sonata begins with a fast movement. But for his 1801 C-sharp minor sonata, Beethoven chose a more leisurely tempo at the beginning. This first Adagio of the Moonlight Sonata has imprinted itself on the memory of the whole world, and it's a beautiful movement that has a lot of dreamy-romantic first-person quality.

Moon and night musics haven't just been around since the Romantic era. Baroque composer Antonio Vivaldi wrote his night concerto "La Notte" for flute and orchestra in 1728. Unlike in the Romantic period, the composer was not interested in interpreting a natural event emotionally, but in recreating the sounds of nature - thunderstorms, wind, or even the dark night. The night itself, 'nux' as it is called in Greek, personifies the mother of heaven and earth and the daughter of chaos.

Erst einige Jahre nach Beethovens Tod verband der Dichter und Musikschriftsteller Ludwig Rellstab den ersten Satz der Sonate mit einer Bootsfahrt bei Nacht auf einem See. Es war denn auch Rellstab, der den Namen "Mondscheinsonate" prägte.
Mit ihrer melancholischen Stimmung gilt Beethovens Mondscheinsonate als Vorläufer der musikalischen Romantik. Beethoven hat sie nicht selbst so genannt. Er hat sie 'Quasi Una Fantasia' genannt, weil er die traditionellen Satzfolgen vertauscht hat. Normalerweise beginnt eine Sonate mit einem schnellen Satz. Für seine cis-Moll Sonate von 1801 aber wählte Beethoven zu Beginn ein gemächlicheres Tempo. Dieses erste Adagio der Mondscheinsonate hat sich in das Gedächtnis der ganzen Welt eingeprägt, und es ist ein wunderschöner Satz, der sehr viel von träumerisch-romantischer Ich-Bezogenheit hat.

Mond- und Nachtmusiken gibt es nicht erst seit der Romantik. Der Barockkomponist Antonio Vivaldi schrieb 1728 sein Nachtkonzert "La Notte" für Flöte und Orchester. Anders als in der Romantik ging es dem Komponisten nicht darum, ein Naturereignis emotional zu interpretieren, sondern die Klänge der Natur - Gewitter, Wind oder eben die dunkle Nacht - nachzuempfinden. "Die Nacht an sich, 'nux' wird sie ja im Griechischen genannt, personifiziert die Mutter von Himmel und Erde und die Tochter des Chaos

Mondscheinsonate (Beethoven)

What if you were asleep? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went up to the sky and picked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if, after waking up, you held the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834), English poet and literary critic

Picture found on:
https://www.kunstnet.de/werk/328492-wenn-die-nacht-kommt
Artist: "Mariola"

Was, wenn du schliefest? Und was, wenn du, in deinem Schlafe, träumtest? Und was, wenn du in deinem Traume, zum Himmel stiegest und dort eine seltsame und wunderschöne Blume pflücktest? Und was, wenn du, nachdem du erwachtest, die Blume in deiner Hand hieltest? Ah, was dann?

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834), englischer Lyriker und Literaturkritiker

An Untold Dream

The "timpani roll" at the end shouldn't really be there, nor should the second one...but I'll leave it as it is for now. Makes it special! 😄😅

Denn schnell und spurlos geht des Mimen Kunst,
Die wunderbare, an dem Sinn vorüber,
Wenn das Gebild des Meißels, der Gesang
Des Dichters nach Jahrtausenden noch leben.

For quickly and without a trace goes the mime art,
The wonderful, passes the sense,
If the image of the chisel, the song of the poet
The poet's song still live after millennia.

ᶠᴿᴵᴱᴰᴿᴵᶜᴴ ᵛᴼᴺ ˢᶜᴴᴵᴸᴸᴱᴿ (1759 - 1805), ᴶᴼᴴᴬᴺᴺ ᶜᴴᴿᴵˢᵀᴼᴾᴴ ᶠᴿᴵᴱᴰᴿᴵᶜᴴ ˢᶜᴴᴵᴸᴸᴱᴿ, ᴬᴮ 1802 ᵛᴼᴺ ˢᶜᴴᴵᴸᴸᴱᴿ, ᴰᴱᵁᵀˢᶜᴴᴱᴿ ᴬᴿᶻᵀ, ᴰᴵᶜᴴᵀᴱᴿ, ᴾᴴᴵᴸᴼˢᴼᴾᴴ ᵁᴺᴰ ᴴᴵˢᵀᴼᴿᴵᴷᴱᴿ; ᴳᴵᴸᵀ ᴬᴸˢ ᴱᴵᴺᴱᴿ ᴰᴱᴿ ᴮᴱᴰᴱᵁᵀᴱᴺᴰˢᵀᴱᴺ ᴰᴱᵁᵀˢᶜᴴˢᴾᴿᴬᶜᴴᴵᴳᴱᴺ ᴰᴿᴬᴹᴬᵀᴵᴷᴱᴿ ᵁᴺᴰ ᴸᵞᴿᴵᴷᴱᴿ ᵟᵁᴱᴸᴸᴱ: ˢᶜᴴᴵᴸᴸᴱᴿ, ᵂᴬᴸᴸᴱᴺˢᵀᴱᴵᴺ (ᵀᴿᴵᴸᴼᴳᴵᴱ), ᴱᴺᵀˢᵀᴬᴺᴰᴱᴺ 1796-1799; ᴱᴿˢᵀᴰᴿᵁᶜᴷ 1800. ᴾᴿᴼᴸᴼᴳ. ᴳᴱˢᴾᴿᴼᶜᴴᴱᴺ ᴮᴱᴵ ᵂᴵᴱᴰᴱᴿᴱᴿöᶠᶠᴺᵁᴺᴳ ᴰᴱᴿ ˢᶜᴴᴬᵁᴮüᴴᴺᴱ ᴵᴺ ᵂᴱᴵᴹᴬᴿ ᴵᴹ ᴼᴷᵀᴼᴮᴱᴿ 1798

ALLESTIMENTO

THIS is the real old mansion where DISCO CAT is resting from his adventures. The little sister of Space Cat's "princess" 🤭 knocked on the mighty, massive door one evening. She had brought incense sticks and scented candles and wanted to be told a story by DISCO CAT. And because DISCO CAT is an excellent storyteller, he began to tell.... 🧾

.... 🎸🎵🎹🚀

Time 🕜 flew by and the little sister of the cat princess was worried because she had not signed out at the court. She went - with a friendly phrase - to the secret entrance of the tree near the stairs of the old mansion and let herself be transported to her galaxy through the wormhole. Since then she came to visit DISCO CAT's old mansion more and more often to listen to the most amazing stories. Her stepfather had been a real bore since he retired, so she continued to listen to the exciting stories that DISCO CAT knew how to tell. Fascinated, she listened to the sonorous purr of DISCO CAT, when he began to tell about the kingdom of shadows....

"...Once upon a time there was a mouse...which could fly"

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DAS ist die wahre alte Villa in der DISCO CAT sich ausruht von seinen Abenteuern. Die kleine Schwester von Space Cat's "Prinzessin" 🤭 hat eines Abends an der mächtigen, massiven Tür geklopft. Sie hatte Räucherstäbchen und Duftkerzen mitgebracht und wollte von DISCO CAT eine Geschichte erzählt bekommen. Und da DISCO CAT ein hervorragender Geschichtenerzähler ist, begann er zu erzählen... 🧾

.... 🎸🎵🎹🚀

Die Zeit 🕜 verging wie im Flug und die kleine Schwester der Katzen-Prinzessin hatte Bedenken, weil sie sich am Hofstaat nicht abgemeldet hatte. Sie ging - mit einer freundlichen Floskel - zum geheimen Eingang des Baumes nahe der Treppe der alten Villa und ließ sich durch das Wurmloch in ihre Galaxie versetzen. Seitdem kam sie immer öfter zu Besuch bei DISCO CAT's alten Villa vorbei um sich die tollsten Geschichten anzuhören. Ihr Stiefvater war ein ausgesprochener Langweiler, seit er sich zur Ruhe gesetzt hatte und so hörte sie weiter den spannenden Geschichten zu, die DISCO CAT zu erzählen wusste. Ganz fasziniert lauschte sie dem sonoren Schnurren DISCO CAT's zu, als er begann, über das Königreich der Schatten zu erzählen...

"...es war einmal eine Maus...die fliegen konnte"

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The Realm Of Shadows

Dear Esther,
the gulls no longer land here; I have noticed that they seem to have avoided this place this year. Perhaps it is the decimation of the fish population that is driving them away. Or maybe it's me...

An incredibly beautiful PC game with a pull. It made me decide on this.

Liebe Esther,
die Möwen landen hier nicht mehr; ich habe festgestellt, dass sie in diesem Jahr diesen Ort gemieden zu haben scheinen. Vielleicht ist es die Dezimierung des Fischbestandes, die sie vertreibt. Vielleicht liegt es auch an mir...

Ein unglaublich schönes PC-Spiel mit Sogwirkung. Es hat mich zu diesem Titel bewogen...

Dear Esther

Legacy

No being can decay to nothing!
The eternal moves on in all,
In being keep you happy!
Being is eternal, because laws
Preserve the living treasures,
From which the universe is adorned.

The true was found long ago,
Has joined noble spirits;
The old true, touch it!
Owe it, son of earth, to the wise,
Who gave her to circle the sun,
And showed the sibling the path.

Immediately now turn inward,
The center you will find within,
Which no noble may doubt.
You will miss no rule there;
For the independent conscience
Is sun of thy moral day.

Then you have to trust your senses;
No wrong they let thee see,
If your mind keeps you awake.
With fresh eyes joyfully observe,
And walk safely as smoothly
Through meadows of richly gifted world.

Enjoy moderately filling and blessing;
Reason be everywhere present,
Where life rejoices in life.
Then past is constant,
The future ahead is alive,
The moment is eternity.

And at last thou hast succeeded,
And are you imbued with feeling:
What is fruitful, alone is true -
You test the general rule,
It will switch according to its way,
Join the smallest band.

And as of old, in silence,
A work of love according to his own will
The philosopher, the poet created,
So shalt thou obtain most fair favor:
For to prefigure noble souls
Is most desirable profession.

Vermächtnis

Kein Wesen kann zu Nichts zerfallen!
Das Ewige regt sich fort in allen,
Am Sein erhalte dich beglückt!
Das Sein ist ewig, denn Gesetze
Bewahren die lebendigen Schätze,
Aus welchen sich das All geschmückt.

Das Wahre war schon längst gefunden,
Hat edle Geisterschaft verbunden;
Das alte Wahre, faß es an!
Verdank es, Erdensohn, dem Weisen,
Der ihr, die Sonne zu umkreisen,
Und dem Geschwister wies die Bahn.

Sofort nun wende dich nach innen,
Das Zentrum findest du da drinnen,
Woran kein Edler zweifeln mag.
Wirst keine Regel da vermissen;
Denn das selbständige Gewissen
Ist Sonne deinem Sittentag.

Den Sinnen hast du dann zu trauen;
Kein Falsches lassen sie dich schauen,
Wenn dein Verstand dich wach erhält.
Mit frischem Blick bemerke freudig,
Und wandle sicher wie geschmeidig
Durch Auen reich begabter Welt.

Genieße mäßig Füll und Segen;
Vernunft sei überall zugegen,
Wo Leben sich des Lebens freut.
Dann ist Vergangenheit beständig,
Das Künftige voraus lebendig,
Der Augenblick ist Ewigkeit.

Und war es endlich dir gelungen,
Und bist du vom Gefühl durchdrungen:
Was fruchtbar ist, allein ist wahr —
Du prüfst das allgemeine Walten,
Es wird nach seiner Weise schalten,
Geselle dich zur kleinsten Schar.

Und wie von alters her, im Stillen,
Ein Liebewerk nach eignem Willen
Der Philosoph, der Dichter schuf,
So wirst du schönste Gunst erzielen:
Denn edlen Seelen vorzufühlen
Ist wünschenswertester Beruf.

Frei nach J. W. v. Goethe

Legacy

Dreams...
are the magicians of life.

They can be anything:
Draught horses
or time thieves.

Look at your dream carefully,
before you lose yourself in it.

Träume...
sind die Magier des Lebens.

Alles können sie sein:
Zugpferde
oder Zeit-Diebe.

Betrachte deinen Traum genau,
bevor du dich in ihm verlierst.

Morpheus

...it became obvious that she was adrift without a pilot. No distress signals were flagged. Captain Morehouse of the Dei Gratia knew Captain Briggs personally as an experienced seaman. The first mate (chief mate) of the Dei Gratia, Oliver Deveau, crossed over to the Mary Celeste in a rowboat with a detachment to investigate the vessel. He found a faulty bilge pump and a lot of water between the decks. He reported to his captain that the ship was a "thoroughly wet mess" ("the whole ship was a thoroughly wet mess"). Even the captain's bed was completely soaked. In the galley, the stove had been ripped out of its place, and kitchen utensils were scattered about.

Various hatches and the lazarette door were open, the ship's clock was out of order and the compass destroyed. The sextant and chronometer could not be found, indicating that the ship had been deliberately abandoned. The only lifeboat appeared to have been intentionally launched rather than washed away (though other sources claim it was still on board).

Marie Celeste

When those we are now joyfully developing take inventory and count out by "were you good?". Christmas times very different with a built-in malfunction!

Small robots for children were placed under the Christmas tree. Now it is the robots that rule us. The Christmas tree is already electric in many places!

a not entirely serious story  ;) 😉

Merry Christmas to all who supported me so far, listened to me and read. Stay healthy and creative!

Frank Mehl
Christmas hasn't been what it used to be for a long time....

Malfunction At Christmas

I wish everyone a merry and reflective Christmas! 🎁🙂🎼🎇

Christmas Carol

Destruction is absolutely no guarantee
for building a better life.

Zerstörung ist absolut keine Garantie
für den Aufbau eines besseren Lebens.

Critical Demolition

Let blue sky shine over us,
let our feeling of life rise
like the balloon over the tree.

We are too weighty -
with our sandbags full of worries and problems,
our fears weigh far too heavy,
keep us firmly on the ground.

The lightness of being -
let us take gravity lightly
and walk on the air.

Returning Balloon

What we have brought to life, life gives back to us.
It will never make you rich, if you are impoverished in your heart.

Every moment of my life is a big why.

Was wir dem Leben gebracht, das gibt uns das Leben zurück.
Nimmermehr macht es dich reich, bist du im Herzen verarmt.

Jeder Moment meines Lebens ist ein großes Warum.

Gateway To Your Own History (prologue)

A Message of Hope and Harmony...

From a song of the Korean people to a song of the world: "Arirang", the most famous traditional Korean folk song, was rearranged & interpreted by me ;)
Comments and opinions allowed. What do you think?

Arirang

Wishes cease to be modest when in their fulfillment lies our highest and sweetest bliss - one does not count on miracles when one feels capable of doing miracles...

I don't see anything, even in my dreams and desires, that I can be satisfied with all the time. Only the change is worthwhile and the possibility to decide one way or the other.

I am too old to just play,
Too young to be without desire.

Wünsche hören auf, bescheiden zu sein, wenn in ihrer Erfüllung unsere höchste und süßeste Glückseligkeit liegt - man rechnet nicht mit Wundern, wenn man sich fähig fühlt, Wunder zu tun...

Ich sehe auch in meinen Träumen und Wünschen nichts, womit ich immer zufrieden sein könnte. Nur die Veränderung lohnt sich und die Möglichkeit, sich für die eine oder andere Seite zu entscheiden.

Ich bin zu alt, um nur zu spielen,
Zu jung, um ohne Wunsch zu sein.

Cornucopia

A short winter fairytale

When the cold makes the winter long for you
lean against the heater and travel in your mind into the past

take out of your memory a little bit of the joy you felt last spring at the awakening of nature felt

A Short Winter Fairytale

Yogo (Joachim), my brother,

I said, "Dreamer, you're nothing but a dreamer"
Well, can you put your hands in your head? Oh no...

I love you the best I can I can't sing, that's why these musical phrases. If you listen, it fits ;)

I love you my yogo, my brother :) !!! Your birthday song from me to you!!! From 2'12" you could sing along: "Dreamer, you know you are a dreamer
Well, can you put your hands in your head? Oh no!" 

I couldn't invite Supertramp because of CoVid! But they would have really liked to come, but they are in the studio with me to re-record Breakfeast in America! This version is of course a completely different 🤣

Always your brother, for all that we had, hard, little hard, have to endure me as a "little" brother. Our togetherness strengthens me for the coming time, as we have also coped with the past time. I thank you for the fact that you exist. May our brotherhood continue for a long time.

Your "little" brother" Frank (Hank)* ;)

You little crazy to give me this nickname that I have had to live with since I was thirteen years old!!!! Who is Frank when he is called? I only respond to HANK since then! But I wanted it to be that way 😁

Dreamer.... thank goodness I don't dream alone,
 🙂

Frank

Dreamer

And children grow up with deep eyes,
Who know of nothing, grow up and die,
And all men go their ways.

And sweet fruits grow from the bitter ones
And fall down at night like dead birds
And lie a few days and perish.

And ever the wind blows, and ever again
We hear and speak many words
And feel lust and weariness of limbs.

And roads run through the grass, and places
Are there and there, full of torches, trees, ponds,
And looming, and deadly withered . . .

What are these built for? and never resemble
One another never? and are innumerable many?
What alternates laughter, weeping and palliation?

What do we care about all this and these games,
We who are great and eternally lonely
And wandering never seek any goals?

What does it matter if we have seen many such things?
And yet he who says "evening" says a lot,
A word from which profundity and sorrow run

Like heavy honey from the hollow combs.

Und Kinder wachsen auf mit tiefen Augen,
Die von nichts wissen, wachsen auf und sterben,
Und alle Menschen gehen ihre Wege.

Und süße Früchte werden aus den herben
Und fallen nachts wie tote Vögel nieder
Und liegen wenig Tage und verderben.

Und immer weht der Wind, und immer wieder
Vernehmen wir und reden viele Worte
Und spüren Lust und Müdigkeit der Glieder.

Und Straßen laufen durch das Gras, und Orte
Sind da und dort, voll Fackeln, Bäumen, Teichen,
Und drohende, und totenhaft verdorrte . . .

Wozu sind diese aufgebaut? und gleichen
Einander nie? und sind unzählig viele?
Was wechselt Lachen, Weinen und Erbleichen?

Was frommt das alles uns und diese Spiele,
Die wir doch groß und ewig einsam sind
Und wandernd nimmer suchen irgend Ziele?

Was frommt's, dergleichen viel gesehen haben?
Und dennoch sagt der viel, der "Abend" sagt,
Ein Wort, daraus Tiefsinn und Trauer rinnt

Wie schwerer Honig aus den hohlen Waben.

'Hugo von Hofmannsthal'

Origin And Decay

A little song by a fellow musician named Mirjam Keijnemans inspired me to write this version.

With her kind permission I may publish the romantic dance version of her 'Lovely Bird' here.

Be sure to listen in at her original:

https://soundcloud.com/mirjam-keijnemans/lovely-bird?si=13120efcab964c91907ac89e8faa7b2e&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

https://soundcloud.com/mirjam-keijnemans

Thank you, Mirjam 😊

Mirjam Keijnemans' "Lovely Bird" (Romantic Dance Version)

Light, floating, delicate and fine
The beauty lies in the light glow:
A sparkle, a glitter and shine of color,
that's how the elf dance works.
We float on light and ride the wind,
sometimes slowly and contemplatively, sometimes quite swiftly.

 - Anke Junginger -

The Magic Cauldron

Carl Sagan teaches students in a classroom in Brooklyn, New York, where he grew up. He explains various myths about stars through the ages and how gradually knowledge became more accurate.

...when I went to the stars...
Frank Mehl

For those interested:
All levels were taken from reFX Nexus 4:

SQ World Of Sines 2 (expansion 'Hollywood 2 Core Library').
SY Cosmic Dreamer (expansion 'Factory Presets')
PD Mobile Electro (expansion 'Dark Planet')
PN Cinematic Rinse (expansion 'Hollywood Piano')
SQ I like 135 BPM (expansion 'HipHop 3')

All (5) layers recorded at 116 BPM without any effects or Parametric EQ on the master. No Compression at all!

Cosmos Part VII - The Backbone Of Night

More meaningful than fighting against the enemies would be to fight against what makes the enemies suffer as much as we do.

Sinnvoller als gegen die Feinde zu kämpfen wäre, gegen das zu kämpfen, was die Feinde ebenso leiden macht wie uns.

Walter Ludin
(*1945), Schweizer Journalist, Redakteur, Aphoristiker und Buchautor, Mitglied des franziskanischen Ordens der Kapuziner

Swiss journalist, editor, aphorist and book author, member of the Franciscan Order of Capuchins.

After The Battle (Bolero)

Manchmal hat man das Gefühl, dass einem der Boden unter den Füßen weggezogen wird. Man weiß nicht, was sein könnte, ist, oder sein wird. Nicht sehr leicht zu beschreiben. Aber es hat mit Zweifel zu tun.

Sometimes you have the feeling that the floor is pulled out from under your feet. You don't know what could be, is, or will be. Not easy to describe. But it has to do with doubt.

Why Does It Hurt When My Heart Misses The Beat?

I just do music  🙂 𝒫𝒾𝒸𝓉𝓊𝓇𝑒 𝑀𝓊𝓈𝒾𝒸

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