Bliss In Practice

I am a violin and today I am untuned the sounds from my strings are discordant from sitting too long in my case or from the long winter coldness the musician draws the bow again and again stops and starts then stops again the music coming from me will not improve until my strings are restrung until i am warmed up and practised then my master will pick me up with joy my cadence will perfume the air in the place where everything is music

Once upon a time, there was a sugar cube. One day it caught a glimpse of itself in a silver teaspoon. After seeing it's reflection, it became very curious about itself and began to wonder about existence and it's purpose in life. The little piece of sugar thought for a long time about how to find the answer. It looked to the bowl that had held it and kept it safe all it's life. Who better to pose this question to? So it called out to the sugar bowl. “Sugar bowl, what am I?” The sugar bowl replied “You are a square piece of sweetener. You have a limited time until you become stale and crumble into dust. Learn how to sweeten, that is your only purpose in this life.” So the sugar cube practiced being sweet and became so sparkly with sweetness you could almost see a light glowing inside the cube. Becoming sparkly was helping the other cubes that shared the sugar bowl. The sparkly cube always had positive words for the other cubes and encouraged them to become as sweet as