“Why Do Your Showers Take So Long” Uh Probably Because I Was Practicing Conducting A Cello Concerto

Because a fast song you kind of like is better than a slow song you love when you’re trying to keep your heart from exploding.

— Renee Watson, Piecing Me Together

Re-Growing Green Onions

This is so simple and easy to do!

What you need:

The roots from a few green onions

Glass jar

Water

Sunlight

Rubber band (optional)

Take your green onion roots and rinse them off.

Get a jar (I used an old pasta sauce jar) and add a few inches of water.

I put a rubber band around mine because they kept falling into the sides of the jar. Put your onions by a window and change the water out everyday. In around 5 days, you should get results like this:

I called it DREAM. May all your dreams come true.

Full video is here: https://youtu.be/fzoimyyXWiA

Seen at Marshall University School of Music…

So You Want To Be a Surgeon

(For: Domonique Nichols)

Every surgeon has to learn how to hold scissors without nervous hands, how to break open skin and wound a body just to fix it. How can we mend a broken heart if we’re too afraid of getting its blood on our hands? There will be blood on your hands. If you are going to be something, then you have to learn to kill for it. Every surgeon has the power to kill, however life exists at the cusp of that incision. Look at your hands. There is blood running through your fingers and every line in your palms lead somewhere. Where? to your destiny, where the light shines like a fire burning down forest. 

Be scared, but do not fear. The nervous pounds in your blood are natural stimuli just as the rain that feeds the seeds in the ground that cause the herbs to grow. Fear is created from the voices of question, of failure–waiting for rain. But voices can be silenced like the way a wave rushes in and drowns a ship. Rain will come.  I hope your insides tremble when you whisper your dreams and you awake at midnight hours gasping for air. there is a call for you I hope you answer in passion. So you want to be a surgeon? Your first surgery starts here. Here, in the quiet hours where the world sleeps and darkness swallows you with anxiety…  Make an incision while you are awake. bleed, feel, ache, heal. Begin to remove and sew whatever it is that is holding you back. Release yourself from self arrest; because walls are only walls, they are built with the same hands you have to cut away. Get away, pull apart the jail bars, diseased parts and set yourself free. Look at what your hands can do.

Your hands can sew and mended a heart, remove cysts that grow in the mind of emotional hurt bodies, cut away fears and tumors of the past. You can leave a body working like an unbreakable machine.  Your hands can bring life. Your hands can fight back, your hands can love better, Hold tighter, and let go easier. So you want to be a surgeon? Have faith. Kiss your hands with belief, and hold your dreams like a trophy you haven’t seen yet. Hold on to your hope, cradle dreams, sew wounds, and love is always a scar on the body like a piece of art. So love like a heart beat at the will of your hands on an open operating table.  Throbbing, breathing, beating.

Your hands they are warm and loving as the sun even when winter digs up goose bumps on the skin. You’ll spend time planting gardens just to see its beauty. Loving like petals but I hope you love like a rose thorn and pierce someone’s side so much they wail out in pain but are still strong enough to kiss you like a ticking time bomb just went off. Every surgery you will ever have to perform begins now. It begins with you. And if you’re too afraid to cut off people like snapped branches or too in love to let go as the leaves leave the trees in winter then you will never be able to save a life. Spring will never come. So walk with your hands wide open, walk ready to give. Give, give yourself. Surgery begins with saving your own life. Your life lived is a fountain of beauty awed by the eyes of another. You keep giving and they live from your waters.

You are herbs in a bush, a twinkle in the sky and one day someone’s body will pray for your hands. Somebody’s body will thank your hands. You are beauty in flaw and an ocean that refuses to stop waving even in winter when no one visits the beach. Your smile is a candle in a cave, your laughter a soothing anodyne in the moment of pain. Breathe and let be. Your hands can move an orchestra so beautifully tears fall without notice. And when the song is done, the score keeps singing in the soprano whisper of hope. So you want to be a surgeon… make an incision down the middle of your own heart and carry it in your hands. Give it away. So you want to be a surgeon… cut the world in half and let the light in. Die for this, breathe for this, shine for this, live for this. And your very hands that cut the world open will sew the world back up. 

Could you write a basic list of classical pieces? Only the essential, your favourites :) Thanks!

Baroque

BachBrandenburg Concerto 5H-moll-MesseWeihnachtsoratoriumFantasia in GFantasy and Fugue in G minor

VivaldiWinterConcerto for 2 Cellos in G minor

HandelWater Music

Classical

MozartSymphonies 39-41Oboe ConcertoBassoon ConcertoClarinet ConcertoRequiemSinfonia Concertante KV 297b

HaydnCello Concerto

Romantic

BeethovenSymphonies 3-5, 7Violin ConcertoPiano Sonate 1, 18, 21, 23, 29

MendelssohnSymphonies 3-4Violin ConcertoPaulusDie HebridenOctetDie NachtigallKyrie

SpohrSymphonies 2-4, 9-10Clarinet Concerti 3-4

SchumannSymphonies 2-3Piano Sonata 2Konzertstück für vier Hörner

SchubertWiderspruchDer Erlkönig

ChopinScherzo in Bb minorNocturne in Bb minorPiano Concerti 1-2

WeberDer Freischütz: OuvertüreClarinet Concerti 1-2

WagnerTristan und Isolde: Vorspiel und LiebestodLohengrin: Vorspiel zu Akt III, Elsa’s Procession to the CathedralDie Meistersinger von Nürnberg: VorspielTannhäuser: Vorspiel

TchaikovskySymphonies 1-4, 6Piano Concerto 1Marche Slave1812 OvertureFrancesca da RiminiRomeo & Juliet Fantasy OvertureViolin ConcertoString Quartet 1

RachmaninovSymphony 2Piano Concerti 1-2Preludes in Gm, D, C#mVespersDie Toteninsel

Johann Strauss IIDie Fledermaus: Overture

DvorákSymphonies 1, 3-4, 6-9Cello ConcertoString Quartet 12String QuintetCarnival OvertureSlavonic Dances: Op. 46 no. 8 and Op. 72 no. 7

BrahmsSymphonies 1, 3-4Clarinet Sonate 1-2String Quartet 1

Saint-SaënsSymphony 3TarantelleClarinet Sonata

GriegPeer Gynt Suites 1-2Lyric Pieces: Hochzeitstag auf TroldhaugenPiano Concerto

StraussTill Eulenspiegels lustige StreicheDon JuanEine AlpensinfonieSaloméViolin Concerto

SibeliusViolin Concerto

GlinkaRusslan und Ludmilla: Overture

LisztLa campanellaPiano Concerti 1-2

SmetanaMa vlast: Vltava

ElgarSymphony no. 2Cello Concerto

BrucknerSymphonies 4, 8

MahlerSymphonies 2-3, 5-10

DebussyLa MerPremière RhapsodiePréludes

20th Century & Contemporary

RespighiPini di RomaFontane di Roma

GlièreHorn ConcertoLes Sirènes

ShostakovichSymphonies 1, 5, 7, 9Festive OvertureFuneral and Triumphal PreludeString Quartet 8

HolstFirst Suite in E-flatSecond Suite in FSt. Paul’s SuiteThe Planets

StravinskyThe FirebirdPétrouchka: Danse russe

ProkofievSymphony 1Romeo and Juliet

KodályGalántai táncok

BernsteinCandide: OvertureSlava!Clarinet Sonata

PoulencFlute SonataClarinet Sonata

GraingerLincolnshire PosyShepherd’s HeyCountry GardensMolly on the ShoreDown Longford WayIn Dahomey

MárquezDanzón no. 2

AdamsShort Ride in a Fast Machine

OrffCarmina Burana

BrittenWar RequiemPeter Grimes: 4 Sea Interludes

WilliamsThe Mission

BarberAdagio for StringsViolin Concerto

de MeijSymphony 1

MaslankaGive Us This DaySymphony 4

StevensBenediction

McBethOf Sailors and Whales

Trad., arr. KirchnerWana Baraka

ClausenAt the Round Earth’s Imagined Corners

WhitacreSleepOctoberCloudburstThe Seal Lullaby

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