Fighting the Current

moonlit night

I was practicing both flute and piano last night (not simultaneously). After playing all of the pieces for orchestra (nothing too demanding) I played an audition piece three or four times through... It's "Concerto in G for Flute and Orchestra" by Mozart. It's four pages long (that's pretty darn long for a flute piece) and fast... My jaw and fingers were so stiff, not quite in pain, but they were vaguely hurting and I was hardly able to move them. But the piece is sounding awesome. I stopped working at piano about an hour before I did the flute, so I was rested by then, lol. But "Moonlight Sonata" is sounding awesome too. My piano teacher also gave me one called "Avalanche". It's pretty, but not as interesting to me as Moonlight.

Speaking of moonlight, I was coming home from a friend's birthday party tonight and my dad and I were talking about night. We don't have night in the area I live in--it's way too bright. We don't have many stars for that matter either. On good nights you can see (at most) Orion, the Big Dipper, and the planets, but that's it. I have never seen the Milky Way, although I want to. Every time I've been out far away from incidental light, it has been cloudy. The closest I've ever come was one night coming back from a ski trip out in the mountains. I banged my head on the window several times as I was looking up.

The moon is full tonight, so we can't see anything but that.