12 notes
12 notes in an octave can say a lot about life
Photo courtesy of Peter Pryharski
Over the weekend I saw the movie, ‘A Star is Born’.
There was one piece of dialogue that particularly caught my attention:
“Music is essentially twelve notes between any octave. Twelve notes and the octave repeats. It’s the same story told over and over. All any artist can offer the world is how they see those twelve notes.”
Brilliant.
And true.
We are all just experiencing 12 notes between any octave over and over again in all of its wonderful and sometimes messy combinations.
Same source for every note.
From these 12 notes we experience
our stories
our hardships
our loves
our losses
our victories
our challenges
our wisdom.
All of it comes to us
through us
and is experienced as life in the moment.
Over and over again
one note at a time
one thought at a time.
That’s just how it works.
For all of us.