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  • The Mage’s Wheels

    The Mage’s Wheels

    The mage built his wheels in a narrow tower above the river. From the windows he could see the river threading past the stones, tugging at them like a child testing loose teeth, always on its way somewhere else, never interested in arriving.

    His wheels were fine things: cast in brass, embedded with precious stones, words engraved with care. Each wheel turned another. Virtue answered circumstance. Question answered query. He did not call it prophecy. He called it ordering . He aspired to a complete ordering.
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  • Oracle and Canon

    Oracle and Canon

    Two ancient modes of mind meet at the heart of this piece: improvisation and pre-planning. From a handful of randomly drawn notes, a spontaneous musical Oracle is created — unrepeatable, alive in this moment. From that same seed, a carefully constructed Musical Canon (a type of “round”) takes shape, precise and inevitable. Inspiration and architecture. Moon and sun. Intuition and intellect. This is a
    meditation in sound on how we meet the cards life deals us — and how we choose to respond.
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  • The Voice and the Ink

    The Voice and the Ink

    Once, in a quiet part of the world
    where rivers ran backwards
    and the stars could be heard humming in the dark,
    there lived two souls
    who loved each other
    but often could not understand one another.
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  • The Atlas of the Human Heart

    The Atlas of the Human Heart

    A cartographer mapped the heart with perfect precision.
    Then a visitor arrived — full of feelings that didn’t fit on her page.

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  • The Shepherd of Souls

    The Shepherd of Souls

    Once upon a time there was a shepherd named Lior,
    who lived happily in the mountains
    with his wife and young son.

    Their life was simple and hard.
    Yet they had each other,
    and their sheep,
    and the mountains and valleys were so beautiful —
    beautiful beyond words.
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  • The Wayward Gift

    The Wayward Gift

    A tale of mercy, betrayal, and the mysterious ways grace unfolds.
    A young woman’s kindness is repaid with treachery… yet what she loses becomes a blessing in unseen hands.
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  • The Luminous Moon

    The Luminous Moon

    This video is an experiment in piano four-hands. Normally, for piano four-hands, two players sit at one piano, with one playing the high part and the other the low.

    Instead, here I video myself playing each part — one at a time — and then combine them.

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  • The Quirky Blacksmith

    The Quirky Blacksmith

    A GrailHeart story.

    The village blacksmith was
    a man of steady heat and hand.
    With a few quirks no one quite understood.
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  • As Above, So Also Below — A Musical Ambigram

    As Above, So Also Below — A Musical Ambigram

    Music, like the cosmos, has its hidden symmetries.
    Turn it over, and it tells you the same truth – yet not the same.
    Right becomes left, above becomes below,
    but the song still breathes.
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  • Branches Longing for Birds

    Branches Longing for Birds

    (Poem & Music)

    There is a kind of longing that does not chase.
    It does not run or reach.
    It simply stretches — quietly, openly
    — toward the possibility of something unseen.

    Like branches.
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