I posted this music (at the end of this entry) a few times over the years for no other reason than "just because". It is a personal "yardstick" against which is measured something beautiful in song....the melody, the accompaniment, orchestration, singing voice, expressiveness .. all those things we think about (we all do this different) and helps us find something we can hear over and over without it ever growing stale. It keeps things in balance; a yin to life's yangs.
We practice a lot of mischief in our lives. Perhaps by complexity or by sensory overload. It keeps us from focusing and staying within the dotted lines. Running around all the time gets us out of phase and removes us from those things that put perspective in our outputs.
We write this because we did some work today that was fairly elegant so we thought..somewhat breathtaking in its simple solutions and caused us to swell up (puff up is more like it) with pride; a blowfish of sorts and now, an hour later, after hearing this piece on an Internet radio station and being snapped like a whip back to the reality of mediocrity, we realized that our yardstick - our ruler - was misplaced somewhere and instead of finding it, we just made one up and measured our latest output against it. Horrors!