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Closes

A note from Richard

V2Melody will close at midnight on 20 January 2028

This site has been a retirement project in musical poetry: poems chosen with care and set to music, offered freely for as long as it felt right to keep the garden open.

The work no longer holds the place it once did in my life. I have gone as far with it as I wish to go. Like a sand mandala, it was made to be completed and then released. I am not attached to its permanence, and I do not believe any of it needs to last beyond the time it was given. The poems were already here before I arrived and began to experiment with them. They will still be here when these musical experiments, and indeed myself, have been swept away, like the sand of a mandala. Nothing has been lost.

I want a simpler end to my life, days of simple love and enjoyment with my wonderful wife of 20 years. The work of maintaining a server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit that life.

From 4 November 2026 I will not be adding new poems or musical poems to the site.

Until midnight on 20 January 2028, Spanish time, everything remains available exactly as it is. That is when my VPS server contract comes to an end, and it will not be renewed. After that, the server will be switched off and the site will disappear.

The Mandala Is Finished explains this more fully.

Thank you to anyone who found a poem, a track, or a quiet moment here.

The pleasure was in the making.

Richard



1106

Hildegard of Bingen's Education Begins

Poet involved

What happened

At the age of eight, Hildegard was entrusted to Jutta von Sponheim at the Benedictine monastery of Disibodenberg, Germany. This period marked the beginning of her education in monastic life and spirituality, where she was exposed to the rigors of religious discipline and began experiencing her mystical visions. Jutta's guidance would profoundly influence Hildegard's spiritual development and her later poetic expressions.

Literary impact

Hildegard's education under Jutta laid the foundation for her theological and poetic works, as she began to articulate her visions and insights. The nurturing environment of Disibodenberg allowed her to cultivate her unique voice, which would later resonate through her writings and compositions.

Source: Wikipedia

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