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Amazing.... this instrument is something beautiful, out of imaginations galoreee
and this post, inelegant, is mostly to remind myself of it!
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Sunday, October 11, 2009
Friday, September 11, 2009
R-R-Really
On this day, 5 years ago I was already thinking of you.
For a month I'd been. 5 years counting, true.
Rain days in our southern forest, smoke hued sunlight, one umbrella hun,
these days will always remind me of you, what I wanted to do,
Now they remind that every time we speak
New hate rolls off your lips like honey acid in my ear,
I'd be deaf if I could listen but instead I hear:
"days go by and still I think of you. days when I could have lived my life"
I think of you on days that end, and don't end in any particular way.
I think of you as I share my food, a butter, a bread, a bubble, a seed.
You're in every song and film I've ever seen
And in the cologne of men who read
and in all the eyes of sad strangers, your legs walk away and you're in the dancers,
your laugh scoffs the architecture of other cancers.... "days go by" but I don't feel them leave.
For a month I'd been. 5 years counting, true.
Rain days in our southern forest, smoke hued sunlight, one umbrella hun,
these days will always remind me of you, what I wanted to do,
Now they remind that every time we speak
New hate rolls off your lips like honey acid in my ear,
I'd be deaf if I could listen but instead I hear:
"days go by and still I think of you. days when I could have lived my life"
I think of you on days that end, and don't end in any particular way.
I think of you as I share my food, a butter, a bread, a bubble, a seed.
You're in every song and film I've ever seen
And in the cologne of men who read
and in all the eyes of sad strangers, your legs walk away and you're in the dancers,
your laugh scoffs the architecture of other cancers.... "days go by" but I don't feel them leave.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
2 days late, For Perspective, I suppose
Personally, I found the arrangement of 'simple gifts' performed at the inauguration ceremony to be quite beautiful. Anyone with taste should watch.
Otherwise, here are my observations on the ceremony.
Understanding that film is far and away more advanced each year it exists, the 'live' footage could be called a documentary of the event. This is evident even in the short clip I've linked to above. It reads like a book. Cameras and seating were set up in advance, film crews were given cues of when to switch to whom, tradition set a precedent for the activities, and doubtless, film crews with experience were called upon. After all, Yo-yo Ma and Aretha Franklin performed. Talk about calling on people with experience. You think they'd hire a substandard film crew for that?
If you've got the skinny on it, do correct/affirm my assumptions.
In an incredible speech, Obama reasserted that we are not to sit idly by; we must join in the repair process of our nation.
That's not all he said, naturally (the link is to 'part one' of the speech). It's just the part that I find to be most important at present and for the future, independent of who is in the oval office. The nation, the people, the democracy we embody must be exemplified by our actions. If we decline our power to improve our condition, we negate a bit of our humanity.
And when we divide into communities of 'Republican' and 'Democrat', we negate the common bonds we all share. I don't want to only be friends with people who think the way I do. Who cares if someone disagrees with me? We may be healthy for each other, to strengthen our rhetorical abilities, to learn, to listen, to treat better and be more loyal to our friends, despite disagreement.
I don't want to undermine anyone. I don't plan to tell someone they're 'wrong' unless they're being cruel. I'm jumping off the soapbox, now, in case anyone wants to help me crowd-surf my way back down to Earth.
Air and Simple Gifts lifted my soul skyward.
Otherwise, here are my observations on the ceremony.
Understanding that film is far and away more advanced each year it exists, the 'live' footage could be called a documentary of the event. This is evident even in the short clip I've linked to above. It reads like a book. Cameras and seating were set up in advance, film crews were given cues of when to switch to whom, tradition set a precedent for the activities, and doubtless, film crews with experience were called upon. After all, Yo-yo Ma and Aretha Franklin performed. Talk about calling on people with experience. You think they'd hire a substandard film crew for that?
If you've got the skinny on it, do correct/affirm my assumptions.
In an incredible speech, Obama reasserted that we are not to sit idly by; we must join in the repair process of our nation.
That's not all he said, naturally (the link is to 'part one' of the speech). It's just the part that I find to be most important at present and for the future, independent of who is in the oval office. The nation, the people, the democracy we embody must be exemplified by our actions. If we decline our power to improve our condition, we negate a bit of our humanity.
And when we divide into communities of 'Republican' and 'Democrat', we negate the common bonds we all share. I don't want to only be friends with people who think the way I do. Who cares if someone disagrees with me? We may be healthy for each other, to strengthen our rhetorical abilities, to learn, to listen, to treat better and be more loyal to our friends, despite disagreement.
I don't want to undermine anyone. I don't plan to tell someone they're 'wrong' unless they're being cruel. I'm jumping off the soapbox, now, in case anyone wants to help me crowd-surf my way back down to Earth.
Air and Simple Gifts lifted my soul skyward.
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