The past week...

This past week has been one big blur of activity and momentous, life-changing events.

How is it possible that one's life can change so much in the span of a few days?

Truly, God is great!

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Congratulations to everyone who had their recital this week! Namely: Feona Turalde (her 3rd), Aizel "Twinkle" Prietos(1st), Kimberly Kwok (1st), Jeong Hwa (1st), Shaddai Solidum (1st), and Kuya Ervin Lumauag (1st). Oh, and Franco Maigue (his 2nd)! Yay! We can eat ice cream now and stay in airconditioned rooms all day long if we wanted!

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From J. Brahms' Romanzen aus Magelone, Op. 33:

SIND ES SCHMERZEN, SIND ES FREUDEN (Are they sorrows or are they joys)

Are they sorrows or are they joys

Which tug at my breast?

All the old desires leave;

A thousand new floors bloom.

Through the dusk of tears

I see suns standing in the distance,

What languishing, what longing!

Do I dare? Shall I move closer?

Ah, and when my tears are falling,

It is dark around me;

Yet if my desires do not return,

The future is empty of hope.

So beat then, my ambitious heart,

So flow down then, my tears,

Ah, joy is only a deeper pain,

Life is a dark grave,

Without guilt,

Should I then suffer?

How is it that in my dreams

All my thoughts

Tremble up and down?

I scarcely know myself anymore.

O, hear me, kindly stars,

O, hear me, green meadow,

And you, my love, hear my holy oath:

If I remain far from Him,*

I will die gladly.

Ah, only in the light of His* gaze

Dwell life and hope and happiness!

 

* I changed the gender