“To Know Music is to transfer it
to life” M.K. Gandhi

My grandsons this week were big users of I Pod’s for game playing and music listening. My seven year granddaughter was into the game playing with her brother’s or my wife’s I Pod. When driving in my wife’s car they were able to play their music on the I Pod through the radio speakers. The country songs were okay but the pop music to my ears was a lot of noise.

My oldest grandson had asked me what kind of music I liked best and I had responded classical. He thought that was humorous. Since I had no music on my I Phone I decided to put the ‘Pandora’ program on it. One of the Pandora channels I have created is for classical music.

Today after driving the grandchildren half-way back home so their mom can take them the rest of the way I went home determined to put some time in the garden. The weather was great, there was a lot of work to do but my mind was too noisy. A friend of mind just sent me a copy of a talk by an Orthodox priest about the need for silence to hear the word of God, Hearing the Voice of God in Quietness I decided to take a lesson from my grandchildren and play music while I was working in the garden but the music I choose was the Pandora classical channel on my I Phone.

Wearing my garden cap the earphones to my I Phone were not so obvious to sight but soft quiet classical in my ears kept my mind quiet of thoughts so I could focus on the garden work. Paradoxically the music increased the quietness of mind so the time in the garden went by quickly and was productive.

There are some Gandhi quotes on my picture quotes about music and life. One that came to mine was: “To know music is to transfer life.” I did not understand the quote and still do not completely. But I know that music makes for silence in the garden.

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