I heard someone say about the piano, that when playing the music of the Masters, since we have no idea what they went through to write the music, we need to add our own suffering and passions to the notes or they just won’t work.
While the Masters expressed themselves in between the notes and staves, we look into our vocabulary to do the same.
I heard it again on national television last evening…….’if it sounds too good to be true, then it is.’ The announcer even said it like…”If it sounds too good to be true………” and left the last part for the audience to fill in….before he finished it himself, affirming that everyone already knew the full phrase. He said it as he nodded his head….knowingly….which is supposedly to denote some kind of wisdom, I am assuming.
I believe another variation might be “Get real!” or is it something like, “Dumb down!” or “Live small!” or maybe, “Careful! You might get hurt!”
It is usually said in retrospect….after the final results of some issue are in.
Watching a television interviewer refer to his program as having a ‘faith-based’ perspective made me think about what it is I separate from ‘faith.’ Of course, he was referring to the idea that his religion required a certain amount of faith…I guess because the object of his faith was keeping hidden. According to the television, keeping stuff hidden was meant to test that faith, with certain rewards or punishments meted out for doing or not doing so.
I’m going to sound a bit like that TV guy here…and I noticed a few things.
Walking along the beach, I noticed a female shape in front of me that made my heart race! It’s her! Then as I got nearer, nope, someone else. Good thing too, because my mind blanked out, except for a couple cheap “Hi, how are you?” phrases.
My thoughts went back to the day I answered an ad…structural integration, it was called….that I saw posted in a Health Store.
I could try to censor these immediate thoughts and yet there is something about ‘flow’….and seeing what gets uncovered by just observing that past, as it pushes itself into the ‘now‘!
……so, I remember going for my appointment…
Ah, this is the time when we are looking at who we consider to be our heroes. We’ve been watching references to this phenomenon on the news media, in the paper and in public, generally and especially today..
I would assert that for most of us, we usually begin any conversation of this sort with a silent affirmation, “I’m not a hero and couldn’t be one.” I want to suggest a few thoughts about that…and I’m interested in the specific part that my dictionary includes in the definition. ‘someone admired for his achievements and qualities.’
I am on vacation and just arrived by plane last night, having left the Great White North in exchange for ocean breezes and palm trees!
When I left home and had gotten through airline customs and was sitting in the passenger waiting area, I noticed that people were watching me. I didn’t think much of it since I was also watching other passengers, wondering who they were, where they were going, what their stories were…..you know, the usual stuff that we travelers do.
The transfer of the Administration is soon taking place in the U.S. and the Canadian parliament has been shut down for a time.
It is interesting to note the amount of media time that is being devoted by the leaders to publish ‘reasons’ why things happened the way they did. What I am referring to here is ‘justification’ and not authentic discussion or de-briefing. Each ‘reason’ is tempered so as to include just enough ‘confession’ that we nod our heads in agreement that they are being honorable by ‘fessing up.’
