It's been a summer!

I have been neglecting my blog due to getting engaged, and as my brothers would put it "finally getting a life"... but no more :)

Today I found out just how much I missed music, the simplicity of it, the challenge of learning something new, and how perfection is never reached but always sought after. I pulled out my violin and learned a new song. It is the Romantic flight theme from How To Train Your Dragon.

It was not just the enjoyment of learning to play this melody, but the excitement in changing around and playing with it. I moved it from B major, to C major, and then to G major... just for fun. :) I added trills and other ornaments as I saw fit. I got lost in playing for almost two hours... It was awesome. I love the freedom that I have with my violin. It does not get choked up, or lose its tone. But it does over time get out of tune, and I have to be diligent in tuning and retuning it. It is a lot like my life.

Sometimes there some days I go through my day-to-day life but everything seems to fall flat. I usually try to find out whats wrong with whats around me. I figure something must be wrong with the song I'm playing, and I try to fix it... Instead of just retuning. There are other times that I am out of tune and try to re-tune by myself. The only problem is that I don't have perfect (or very good at all) pitch. So I still end up being off. I am able to play a song well when I am tuned with the help of someone, or something. It sometimes works, and is easy to rely on other instruments to tune from, but this is not the safest way. The best way is to use something that is constant, something that never loses its pitch... a tuner. Luckily, we each have access to a Master musician, who perfectly knows what is right and 'in tune', as well as He knows us. There is no way we can play the song we were born to play (or be who we were intended to be) except we seek out and receive His help and guidance. He is always there for us.

(Greg Olsen's Lost and Found)

There is so much I wish I knew about music... and there is so much I wish I understood and knew about everything... but that will come with time... it is kinda funny, but, the more I learn, the less knowledgeable I feel.