Busy, Busy, Busy...

These last couple of weeks have been very full - and the week to come is even more so.

My brother headed back to AZ, hopefully in a slightly better frame of mind than when he got here. He made contact with a minister of his church while here who helped him greatly, and he's promised that he'll be making an appointment with a minister there at home by this coming Tuesday, at the latest. I think - hoping that this isn't just hubris or wishful thinking - that getting a two-week time-out away from his troubles did him some good and gave him time to get his feet under him a bit. The proof, of course, will be in how he deals with things as time goes by; but for now, I'm calling him every evening to see how he's doing.

As for me, I'm involved in music stuff up to my eyebrows. It was organ/piano duets at the Sunday service this morning, and then a rehearsal for our little musical program to be performed on Saturday afternoon. Tomorrow, it will be organ/piano duets at the morning service; and then, at a classical music recital in the middle of the afternoon, we're doing two organ/piano duets and I have two solo pieces on the piano. I'm nervous about the solos - one of them has to be done by memory. Then Tuesday and Friday are program rehearsals, with the Saturday performance rounding out the week. My arm will be ready to fall off by then, I'm certain!!

Still, even as nervous about performing as I am, I'm enjoying the week and all the musical stuff going on. It's a wonderful bunch of people I'll be playing for too, and that helps.

It's just that I'll be glad when life gets back to its regular, quiet norm. I could use the break!!

Impatient

This little one-shot occured to me a while back. We generally see this particular event through Elrond's eyes, and I wondered what might have been running through Elros' head as he sailed off to Númenor. This is what came to me as an answer:

( Impatient )

Aearwen's Little Bits - Moving On

So many of the male Elves in Tolkien's legendarium are tragic characters. Although his testing doesn't come until virtually all of the Lord of the Rings is finished, Celeborn is no less tragic for being so terribly torn between remaining at Galadriel's side and remaining in the land that he loved and had protected for so long. He is a very quiet, patient Elf who has been growing on me steadily for a while now.

( Moving On )