For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner,” wrote the cellist Pablo Casals in his memoir, Joys and Sorrows. “I go to the piano, and I play two preludes and fugues of Bach. It fills me with awareness of the wonder of life, with a feeling of the incredible marvel of being a human being.
~ Glen Kurtz, Practicing: A Musician’s Return to Music
Pablo Casals (1876 – 1973), was a Spanish Catalan cellist and conductor. He is generally regarded as the pre-eminent cellist of the first half of the 20th century, and one of the greatest cellists of all time.
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Any activity that helps fill us with the wonder of life, is a good thing to do each day! Morning 🙂
Yes!
soul-touching way to welcome the day.
It is Beth.
I feed the cat,turn on my laptop, make coffee and read the paper–I like his rut better.
It’s not so different. 🙂
well it does have a rhythm
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Thanks for sharing Elena.
Thanks for your wonderful post, David.
What a wonderful wake up call! Be nice to be married to him and hear that each morning instead of an alarm clock.
Might be. Or he may not be so gentle if he doesn’t see movement.
It is incredibly marvelous to be a human being, to have the opportunities and wonder that life brings.
Yes, that’s the bottom line. Wonder. Miracles. Gratitude.
What a great way to start the day … and here we are …
Smiling (at…and here we are…) and here we are again today.