mood.4

 cold rainy day listening to Ethereal Shroud's Trisagion and reading a book or painting

A picture I took 4

 what ruins once were

A picture I took 3

 

event.1

 I saw a BEETLE in the HALLWAY

I will answer three questions about this topic.

1. Was this in your home?

no

2. What did you do about it?

I acknowledged this event.

3. Where was the beetle going?

it was heading generally westward

Thank you for your time and attention in this matter. There will be no further questions answered about the event. Please take time to reflect if you feel it is necessary for you.

thought.1

 Sunsets are beautiful. Most of the time we hardly notice them unless it's a special occasion and we seek them out, but they happen every day. Sometimes you may take a quick notice while driving home or if you're outside but most of the time it transitions from day to night without a second thought.

Do you think that if we lived on a tidally locked world, one that has its star in the same position in the sky all the time, so that the horizon was a perpetual sunset, that we would be bored or frustrated with the view? The gorgeous multicolored display of light would become part of the mundane, something taken for granted and rarely or never appreciated? Would the beauty fade away and we would fail to appreciate the painted sky?

Maybe we love sunsets because they are unique, fleeting, and we normally don't notice them until after they're gone. The everyday beauty we get to experience fades to the background unless we purposely notice it. Like sunsets, it's important to remember to appreciate the everyday things and people we are around because you might not notice what beauty you failed to appreciate until it's too late.

mood.3

 screaming into the wind

music.1

Artist: Cân Bardd 

This atmospheric black metal that ranks amongst the best, if not taking the crown. My first listen of The Last Rain blew me away and it has become a regular listen for years, particularly when I am hiking or in a forest. The sounds are perfectly at home in the mountains or deep in the woods, off the trail amongst the living and fallen trees, undergrowth, and moss. 

The newest album, Devoured by the Oak, takes such feelings and nature worship and cranks it to eleven. Maintaining the core sound, the music evolves and grows organically, stunning you with fresh and new beautiful experiences every song. Every song is fantastic, and I could heap praise upon them all, but I want to call out Crépuscule in particular, as it is perfection. From 1:45 on, this song gives me everything I want in this style of music. 4:10 is where it really starts to build, raising the emotional stakes and welling up feelings deep inside myself that I can't quite describe, before culminating at 7:00 to 8:50 into something that is simply transcendental. 

These two albums rank in the top of my all time favorite albums. In the spirit of transparency, I have not quite found the same love for the first album, Nature Stays Silent. I'm not disparaging it, but it hasn't 'clicked' for me. 

I highly recommend giving Cân Bardd a listen and supporting the man behind it, by buying the album(s) or getting some of the (extremely limited) merch remaining through the direct bandcamp or the label's bandcamp. There's also a music video for Une Couronne de Branches, embeded below.

https://canbardd.bandcamp.com/

https://canbardd-northernsilence.bandcamp.com/

Favorite songs:
On The Last Rain:
Between Hope and Reality
The Last Rain 

On Devoured by the Oak
Devoured by the Oak pt.I
Crépuscule