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Well here it is again,folks!
The 2024 Year End Review and it's that time of year where I celebrate some of the media I've been consuming this year. It's been a year where quite a lot has changed as series I've been watching have gradually been finishing for good leaving me with space to try and discover new shows to get addicted to.
So let's get this show on the road, shall we?
Well it's finally upon us, almost!
Merry Christmas from all here at The Write Dimension!
I want to take this opportunity to get in early with my season's greetings because we all know family and friends will gather round and no doubts old frictions will arise and tempers may flare causing us to lose our way emotionally. But if we make it our aim to rise higher then this will become a season for us and our loved ones to remember for all the right reasons.
Still to come here is the year end review where I, as always, look back over the year and pick out some of my favourite media to be consumed. It's almost complete now, I've just got the final touches to put to it so expect that over the coming days.
Again, Merry Christmas and a happy new year for 2025!
Peace!
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Last night I got to thinking how a lot of our problems are less about what happens to us and more about the lens through which we choose to use to view what happens to us. This can cause us to create feelings that we think are attached to these events when they really aren't. What happened to us happened to us, it didn't come with added anxiety, or worry, or fear, hate, anger etc. The events transpired exactly the way they were supposed to, even if we didn't like or appreciate the outcome.
The challenge comes in remembering that we always have the ability to choose our response in life's events. We have a response-ability. An ability to choose our response in any and every situation that takes place around us. Even in the ones we don't like or care for. They happened, they didn't bring any more emotion than we chose to add into our response.
Well, it's the second half of the year and the height of summer!
Or one would think it is one day here in Oldham, but not the next!
Still, you got to make the most of each day as they are all like sand in an hourglass slipping through your fingers. We can state the need to make the most of every moment, but how many are actually doing it?
No, seriously.
How many conversations have you had with people who... just... seem... to be going nowhere in life? You know, they seem to be absent of ambition, of dreams for the future they want, and may even go as far as blaming everyone and everything around them for the reason they are like they are today.
But it doesn't have to be like that.
In fact, I'd argue that if it's like that today then, chances are, you're not doing enough to unfasten your eyes from off the present and onto future glories. It's easy to think that this is all there is if all there is becomes all you look at every day.
You need to dream bigger. Higher. Faster. Further. Longer.
I don't claim to have all the answers how to do this, just a conviction that if all I see today can be changed at any point by learning to focus on just one thing different then I'm going to do all I can do in order to find that one.
The law of nature is: Do the thing, and you shall have the power, but they who do not the thing have not the power. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
It all comes down to doing that next thing that will make that shift in perspective. Not the one after, or the one after.
The. Next. Thing.
If you want that change in your life, will you do what's necessary to have it?
As long as it's safe and legal do it, it's worth it, trust and believe that!
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Drawing the movie themes to a close it's back to Thomas Newman and this time American Beauty takes centre stage.
I've gone for a particular piece of music that's so soothing, so relaxing, it almost demands you stop what you're doing to consume it properly in my opinion.
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Well, we're 20 away from target now and it doesn't seem all that long since I started before I took the series on a hiatus.
Continuing in with movie themes, I've chosen one from a movie I could care less about, but the music on the other hand? This one has to get a special shout out...
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Onto the next in my mini-series within a series.
This time, it's the turn of the excellently scored movie Braveheart. I'm not wasting time on accuracies or inaccuracies of this movie because my series zooms in on the music that matters...
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We're back for another edition of Off the Scale and this time it's movies I'm paying a visit to. For the next few entries I'm going to be looking at some of my favourite themes.
I hope you can grow to appreciate them as much as I do...
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My, it's been a looong time since this series was last present on my blog!
I've been through a tough few years and have had multiple intentions to restart this series celebrating classical music in all shapes and sizes...
Then the pandemic hit and changed everything.
Then my dad got sick and changed everything.
Then my priorities changed, as my dad passed away, and I had to step back from blogging for a season.
But here I am, back once again in my journey to 100 episodes...
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Rather belatedly, but as promised, here is my best of show for 2023. As always, the winners are not necessarily from content produced in 2023, just that it was consumed, by me, last year and made enough of an impression upon me to deserve a place on this list.
Here we go...