Once December arrives, it becomes the favourite time of the year. Recently watched a few YouTube uploads of people who always live amongst snow. Here in Wales, UK it is seldom experienced in my rural area. The seafront area belongs to parts that are affected by the Gulf Stream.
Snow and the loveliness of its presence? I’m currently writing a song called ‘Less is More’ and trying not to imagine older age as this phrase’s philosophy. More snow would be ideal.
I imagine inside the older Summers’ headspace experiencing softly falling snowflakes, pitter-patterting almost silently to the mind’s floor. Just a serene sound of connect as they hit the ground. The oddities of confused thoughts, belonging to older age, gently swirl padding their way about in the air, resulting in a more understandable solidity within a thick luxurious snow carpet. Those gentlest of thoughts leaving holistic inspirational storytime drift prints in the settled snow. Gentle sounding words and melodies layering themselves down for prosperity. Quiet and serene. Without the crunch of underfoot gravel pathways on a more difficult journey experience.
This music below though? This is a definite journey of crunch! Too harsh for the more serene Wintertime festivities. So currently getting another song together of calmer wintery vibes. Imagery for that one should be a crackling log fire? With hopefully no odd and loud log split ‘crack’ experienced. The ‘crack’ shock result as fire flame seeks to enter the resin and sap space. A ‘plosive’ reminder that inner thoughts can indeed be fractured by fierce attack.
As said, for the calmer wintery vibe, that log fire is for another song/video moment in time.
Cheers. Xx
Music written and all instruments played by Gray Summers. No AI involved.
As said many times before, the drums are from the GarageBand library.
Wish I could play drums!
even though we’re in Spring and this year is showing us more of a summery spring…today has a winter feel with whole day rain and chilling winds…and your video…just sigh lol… so warm … and the music – delightful and perfect for that log fire..
Seems you’re all set for Winter, Gray …
🤍🍂
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Thanks Destiny. I have a blogging musician friend in Australia who said it was the start of Spring there too about a month back. Maybe a little more. He could go swimming. I am always amazed at how the World weather system and seasons are so diverse. Yet maybe not so with Global warming being scary.
Travellers on long-distance flights must get surprises when arriving at destinations that are thousands of miles away. Sometimes with no weather differences from where they left from.
We have had the fire lit quite often recently. Cold over here currently. Logs are very comforting for firelight ambience. It does bring a whole, different vibe to the house. I like the later embers settling too when the fire starts to go out. Sitting with just firelight as the only source in the room is calming.
Winter is a magical time. Well, if it is dry!
Cheers Destiny. Hope your damp chilled weather changes soon.
🙏🏽🍁🍂
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I’m convinced winter is a state of mind, and that Summersville is a real-life enchanted place where sweet music is always playing, roadsigns are calligraphic, and VDubs roam wild across the countryside.
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Thank you cookie. I believe Winter is a time for surrounding yourself with both indoor comforts of spicy aromas, wonderful festive or heart warming foods and warm low glow Edison bulb lighting. And also wrapping up warm to grasp the outdoor’s cold, crisp and bright days. Music is essential too cookie. It is the pinnacle of remedy for therapeutic wellness. Especially around Christmas time. The road signs are written in the Welsh language and can confuse tourists at times. Pronunciation is difficult to grasp too. So calligraphic is very spot on.
VeeDubs? In the summer I meet a few parked up next to the Dunes and beach areas. We all wave at each other as VeeDub owners as a courtesy symbol if we pass each other on the roads. In the winter, I would love to park up in a snow surrounding landscape and cook a hot meal, play music on the guitar and drink hot toddy spiced drinks. All under a velvet-black sky full of stars.
I suppose I am painting you a scenario of British life cookie. But, as with the world nowadays, things are changing. There can be unease over here. What I feel is important in life, is to treat it as a vintage philosophy where we travel at a slower pace and to be simply kind and friendly to everyone. Enchantment is a beautiful world. If you don’t mind cookie, may I steal it as an inclusion word within a lyric.
Hope a wonderful winter vibe materialises that turns out to really suit you cookie. All the best. 💫✨
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