stolen glimpses of eternity uses ancient Greek music theory and philosophy as its springboard. Originally a much longer work expressing moments which seem either eternally beautiful or frightful, it was influenced by the period of painful waiting when my father was terminally ill with leukemia. This extract is the last four sections of the work which was based on a never ending number series by Gottfried Leibniz. The last section reflects on the eternal feeling of the elements starting with rain, ice, snow and ending with ‘no time’.