Leela Music Newsletter, November 2009Michael Stribling Here's an overview of what you'll find in this issue:
MUSICAL MEMOSThe first month of the international radio promotion for The Promise yielded some great results. The new CD reached the #2 spot on the Zone Music Reporter Top 100 List for October! Here's hoping the results for November will be even better. The next results are due about the middle of December. Stay tuned. The first video to accompany The Promise, "Ascending Through Clouds", is now available for viewing. I hope you enjoy it. Keep an eye out for more videos, hopefully in the near future. SPIRITUALLY SPEAKINGTend the bonfires. And enlighten the world. Positive mental habits are like bonfires; you have to keep tending them or they run out of fuel, burn out, and fade away. They don't just manifest by themselves; they need to be created, tended, and sustained. But old habits die hard, and sometimes we neglect one bonfire (positive mental habit) because we're paying more attention to another one (usually a drama- or ego-related habit). It's common enough to do, and we probably all do it from time to time. Nevertheless, when we neglect tending to the things we say we want to do, we tend to end up doing the same old things we've done in the past. It's probably hard to practice both positive and negative mental habits at the same time; in fact, I wonder if it's even possible. And like anything else, practicing positive mental habits requires consistent effort, and purposeful intention, just like tending to a bonfire. What's more, developing positive mental habits can be a loving thing to do. And as it relates to love, the more logs we put on that metaphorical bonfire, the brighter it burns, and the more light it sends out into the darkness. It seems pretty clear that the world could use more light. Well, the more light we generate, the more enlightened (pun intended) the world becomes. Tend the bonfires. And enlighten the world. POINTS TO PONDER / IN OTHER NEWSWashington Post Neologisms, part 1 The Washington Post recently published the winning submissions to its yearly neologism contest, in which readers were asked to supply alternate meanings for common words. Here are the winners:
AND THE WINNER IS ...Every issue, I give away a free CD (autographed, of course :-). If you're on the mailing list, you're automatically entered in every drawing. This month, the winner is Ramiro Aleman. Congratulations! That's it for this issue. Feel free to drop me a line and let me know what you liked, or didn't like, in this issue, and any recommendations or requests you have for future editions. If you're new to the mailing list and/or you want to read some of the back issues of this newsletter, just visit the Leela Newsletters page. Thank you for your support. Please invite your friends to visit Leela Music and sign the guestbook. Oh yeah, it's okay to order some CDs, too! They make wonderful gifts :-). I also have a page on MySpace.com. Have a look and join the list of friends at www.myspace.com/leelamusic. I wish you peace, joy, and love. Namasté, Michael Stribling If you would like to be removed from my mailing list, please reply to this email and type the word "unsubscribe" in either the subject line or the body of your reply. One more thing: if you change your email address without telling me, I won't be able to send you any more newsletters. So, please keep me in mind if/when you change your email address. Leela Music Newsletters
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