After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous Huxley

I have weird tastes in music. I’m not a one genre kind of person. From Styx to Queenryche, Bach to Beethoven, TSO to Mannheim Steamroller, Techno to Soft Rock, I run the full spectrum, but not country. My favorite type though is usually New Age because you can feel the power and flow of the music. A lot of classical is like that as well but too often it feels like something is missing.

David Arkenstone is one of my favorites and his song “Another Star in the Sky” is in the top three for me. It’s dedicated to his mom when she passed away because of the story that a hero’s soul becomes a star when someone dies. She was his inspriation and his hero. The melody is uplifting and spritual with a lilt of sadness to it.

TSO is another great group. Their Christmas albums have got to be heard and their salute to Beethoven is really good as well.

Recently I came across another musician who is surpassing these although I only have one of her albums. Constance Demby is phenominal. If you haven’t heard her music you should go to amazon and listen to a few samples. My personal favorite is “Oceans Without Shores” from the AEterna album. There is a celestial quality that Arkenstone touches on but Constance seems to provide. There are several comments on the Amazon site about not listening to her music while operating heavy machinery and I have to agree. The anger and pain I was feeling yesterday has left me for now from listening to her music. I put “Oceans” on loop, turned off the lights and just sat on the floor and felt the music. Unbelievable. I have all her albums stored in my wish list on amazon so I can buy them all.

So ends my birthday. Not to bad, no big party but a good lunch with friends, a great card from my parents, a nice note from my wife and a couple of emails. Over all, not to bad at all and I made it thru. Now, if I can just survive the airport tomorrow with my family.

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