I have no choice but to laugh at this title: WOW! I AM SOOO LATE...
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Those were the first words how @edje started his post after the Hive meetup in Krakow, in October 2023. He was just one week "late". One week. It's not a big deal, as how should I start my post now? I am more than three months late to respond to that Spead the Vibes post, to the invitation we all got there.
I must say it was a bit shy invitation on Edje's part...
Am much looking forward to your contributions! π
...but it is there and we all overlooked it. Our fault. We were still hyped by the meeting itself and all those moments that we shared before and during the HiveBeeCon event itself (and later) that we forgot about the music. πΆ
The truth is that the Hivers who stayed in the city continued meeting on Sunday and Monday too. Almost whole day walks and lunches, snacks, hot chocolate, talks - it was so nice. We were also going back to The Kingdom without Limits for the next two days, in late afternoons when Hallmann was there. He gives language lessons, but I am not sure whether he can write using the runes. Maybe? :))
The photo of this concert hall (we think it is a concert hall... if not, please let us know if we are wrong π) was taken during one of our afternoon walks and at the moment we decided to visit The Kingdom again. I was setting the GPS from here to Biskupia Street and then this building, illuminated by lights snuck into my phone's photo gallery.
It was a shame there were no concerts in that building while we were there. Thinking it better - we didn't need any. We didn't lack activities, our stay in Poland was perfect even without classical music concerts. Oh, there was one, casual kind of performance for Hivers in KBK... π
I stumbled upon this nice detail to remember - a kind of mosaic pavement that was leading us through the city of Krakow. However, these days the pavements are different in the place I live and I have to walk at a different pace. I am in a hurry. By choice or need, it doesn't matter now, but in case I decide to slow down and take it easy, on everything, I should just listen to the share from Edje's post, to the album Deus Arrakis by Klaus Schulze. Or at least listen to the first track Osiris, as it was the only one my laptop wanted to open at that moment.
I listened to the whole album, later, from my phone while I was commuting to work (little suggestion - it is best to listen to the track with headphones). There are some open and wide chords, with a classical feeling. It is not a complex harmony as there are just a few chords but the connection between them is building the feeling of movement inside the calmness. A beautiful album that I enjoyed and listened to this morning again as one word reminded me about it.
Calmness!
It was also a topic we were talking about with our son yesterday. We went out to eat and talked about different things, among them about his studies next year, where to go, where to live etc. It will not be easy, we have it clear and just, for example, paying rent for another apartment is a huge additional expense. He expressed his feelings - and his awareness that he has been stressed for a while and that he is trying to cut down on these negative thoughts.
We are trying to help him with our advice and suggestions on how to control that, and how to stay calm but I just don't know to what extent a teenager listens to his parents. Good preparation and organization can help a lot to prevent (or to reduce) the moments we suffer under a stressful situation. I think I will show him this video when he arrives home from school.
Well, I know it is not music that I shared here. I responded with a different thing in this Spread the Vibes edition, but I am being practical right now and trying not to stress out because of breaking the rules. π
Who was late now? Me. But as this challenge-not-challenge has no deadlines and strict rules, I am fine, I think.
P.S. Two Hivers appear in this dark and blurry photo.
