Candlelight

The beginning of the month of October, calm autumn nights lit up with the warm glow of candles. Gypsymusic and nazis on the television, a tall glass with a cold drink. The lady of the house thinks about the best way to move bookshelves and books up to the next floor, how best to make space for the organ and the Steinway. Chilly nights ahead in the bedroom , and time to move the bed from its summerposition to its winterposition. Large windows to the east and the south make for a cold head of hair for the bed´s dreaming inhabitants in the crispness of a winters morn. The northwall painted a dull granite gray, opted as the best colour at the time 2 years ago, appropriate for the mood of the time. A warmer colour would suit for this year, the colour of tenderness and perhaps patience that comes with age. Or one to suit the warmth in the room once the geothermal heating is hooked up to the rattling old radiators in the house. The last rattle will be a goodbye to frozen toes on a cold bedroom floor.
The month ahead contains music in many different forms, in many ways. Everything from psalms and hymns for christening to a chamber music concert, ethereal voices singing the music of Pergolesi and Haydn while a chamber orchestra and basso continuo keeps the music tied to the ground. As if a string was tied to the song, flying in the breeze up below the church ceiling. The best way to get warm while away is to play, to get warm from the inside out and perhaps brighten up a small part of the world, even if just for a minute.