And always it's a pure pleasure when I get to meet people without dogma, who are receptive to new and different perspectives, because it allows a flow of consciousness that elevates one's thinking. What's particularly nice is when they get that moment of clarity, that moment of insight, that epiphany.
Whats particularly amazing about you Lizanne, is it did not take much work :) And in that lays an answer that says something about you, that it truly means you are a special person, and even though you feel no older than a kid, your children have a special mother. To have one like that that can change and see insight and act on it, it's an incredibly valuable commodity to have for your children's growth as you will be able to give them the possibilities, those moments that you had, your children can expect to have too as they grow up.
It means, as you've said before Lizanne, that we are more alike the more we've connected as the more you have read. And since that's true, then you will show those children of yours, the path, just like I hope I've helped you to the moment of your epiphany. I hope you too approach it the same way, where you don't force them down a road, but guide them, you too humbly allow them to find their own moment of revelation and revel in it.
And in that revelation which can be in harmony of music, the visual pleasure of art, the imagination in literature, the beauty of mathematics, the glory of history, you let them discover world and all that it has to offer, with a gentle and invisible hand holding theirs, but remember ... don't hold on too tight :)
13 hours ago: Thanks Lizanne, Tex Avery is/was a great animators, I do have many of his works, but this one was new to me. :)
I think that "divergence" you talk of is really at the heart of it all. Music too. And surprisingly how you too feel not much older than your kids :)
Music, Donald duck, and many other things have changed, it's nicely shown in that Donald Duck that it was meant to educate to show one a higher purpose. Thats gone today. Here is another that Disney never released. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_TlaxmOKqs
Instead if you look on youtube you see mashups, where people apply their own beat to the visuals and there is the rub, you see they are not creating, they are just copying. Ask yourself how much music today is sampled, again the same principle. It just puts a different beat onto the same melody. It's why a lot of "commercial" music really sounds the same, no matter if it's Rehanna, Beyonce, Gaga et all. They have become due to commercialization, interchangeable. They have lost what it means to be an 'artist' and to create because of the demands of the music industry itself - the profit motive. It's also why lyrics are not as important in that kind of music as they once were. Commercialism wrongly assumes $ = connection.
Yet the billboard top music of all time -what do you notice? The most popular is not work of today but work of yesteryear, where the artist was writing the song that communicated a feeling an expression, something about society, possibly the problems and where it was headed, or the dreams and aspirations of people. As mentioned before are not the end goal, rather they are expressions of an end goal - to connect.
It's still why today people stop when a musician plays on the street or at a small concert, it's the connection.
In someways its that to that helps you keep intouch and experience in a new ways, all different things, and it's what children want (nay all of us), it's why they run to mama show what they've done. Connection.
1 day ago: If you read the above comment, I laughed...
I read your epiphany comment Lizanne, i love you because you have self-realized, there is -no- embarrassment -nothing- to be ashamed of, to write that you've trying to find the light. It was a brave statement, one that truly deserves the praise of the highest merit.
Because in a world where saying "dont know" is looked on a nearly a sin and everyone avoids it, you have shown the only true way forward, is by two people communicating, sharing, understanding, thinking an not begin afraid to throw away, or build on something.
It's so incredibly important, and yet it so many times over looked, we have to know ourselves, in order to know and understand others, regardless of color, creed or country.
To me the only thing we really have in this world, is not a iphone, not a car, not a large house, no the only thing that really matters and lifts our souls, just like a child's, is the connections and the emotions that sharing give us. Be it through the contact and beauty of finding each other in our minds or in our bodies.
I think we are, the rivers, the mountains, the oceans, the countries, we are and the connections we make to ourselves and humanity are what truly matters. Be it our children, our lovers, friends, or people we have yet to meet, these things are the human experience. A smile, love, sex, hugs, laughter, wink, all are expressions that we've made that connection.
Art, music, dance are simply the expressions of that too, in mankind's feeble way through; the visual, the audible, or movement; to express such connections. There is yet another way, it's the only we have Lizanne words.
That form of communication, the ability to express ourself is, what has taken us from cave paintings to the internet; even though the medium(s) have changed over 4000 years, the need, the desire to make that connection has not evaporated, and I'd safely say it never will.
Not for us, not for children, nor of future generations.
Thanks for the link, but yes I've studied them all, from the writings of Herodotus, to the math of Pythagoras, the great masters of art, and probably the greatest master of them all nature. But my skills are quite strange in that I can say in what time and location the composer was around.
I'm glad you cried, because it tells me you love kids and see them like i do, a wonder to behold.
Where I believe that kids are inherently free of the constrains of embarrassment of dancing silly, free from the pre-programmed ideas of normality, free from the shackles society and our own minds and society place on us as we "grow up".
I myself, quite honestly have never grown up, I still feel the awe and wonder that is out there, all around us, if we want to be open to it just like children.
And thats why they, children, love music, the patterns, the sounds designed on the golden rules of nature, that harmonize with their very souls. That can make them dance, move, laugh and experience all the positive emotions, now that is something that I do encourage.
But to humble me, it has to come from a place of love, a place of caring, a place where they have the freedom from criticism just to be themselves, and that place I can only see coming from a loving parents heart.
And that's why the negative side of music concerns me so much, it also has the power to be very destructive not only in their lives, but it's as you say Lizanne, inherent in all of us.
And here's a real nice summary explanation of the readings I've done, with regards to music, art, nature.
And it's not only for kids, so watch it too Lizanne, enjoy it, never lose whats special about life, nature, soul, freedom and understanding.
4 days ago: Intercontinental, 1986, Danube, Buda, a good example of acting locally. Now I really doubt it, what with the Hyatt's etc all changing the perception - wants - needs - thru advertising, imports, shiny new things, etc. And they with others too started that back program in '86, trying to make the Intercontinental perceived as old, a dying brand, a dinosaur. I wonder who won. Was it the locals?
4 days ago: No it's not possible for sensitive business practices to conserve local communities and customs, inherently the corp has other goals that it must legally follow for the shareholders.
I'm honestly sorry to disillusion you with such facts, but they are facts.
An example if it were not in the corp interest to have a 'green policy' do you think any would? The reality is they all have because it's now seen in their best interests to have one.. even shell oil has one, and one has to see the irony there. And while the employes of such green departments do go, it's really a pr exercise. You can pollute one country and in another say look we build 4 schools, are we good. The whole has to be measured, not the parts.
DL states it correctly, but I add only small locally owned business can sustain the goals you define. Too often we forget that small business IS the lifeblood, they employ more people, they pay more taxes (by sheer numbers) the deliver what the local communities need every day.
Global business do none of those things, yet people keep believing that they are important. I'd suggest that you look at the top 50 global business's and realize that 50% of them could be wiped out and we'd suffer no loss. There is no way 50% of small business's could be wiped out and the community not suffer a loss.
I fortunately, and simultaneously have lived in some of those places, I'd suggested that you visit, many now I wont go back to, I know it wont be the same, I know culture and traditions will have been lost. I know the diversity that the planet once had with every country being a unique and wonderful experience, is and has been diluted by corp, not only selling their wares, but changing the populations mindset to value and want what they offer. I suggest that in part this is responsible for the Arab Spring, the loss of culture some feel and are fighting tooth and nail to retain, through what ever means they perceive will achieve that goal. Ironically, so are the corps.
5 days ago: Lizanne, wanted to add to my other post, just a question, have you ever just listened in an absolutely quiet room, literally and figuratively where you can actually hear a pin drop, where you can hear your own heart beat, where you can feel more than ever before.
Because of your last kindness, I wanted to and so I thought I'd share this with you.
5 days ago: Here's a fair answer, at least I think, that today, someone was playing 'their' music loud enough for me to hear even when I didn't want to, in side my own home. That I consider an invasion. Too often people just dont "think", hummm maybe other people dont want to hear this.
It's the same for the supermarket, the gym, the elevator, or now the tv's in the bank, post office, it's I believe a way of pacifying people, distracting them. It's like this is a pointless excise waiting in line... so take their mind off it. it's as if we are being treated as children.
Which nicely brings me to the point you made about children and music, I think it's NOT inherently more musical but WE are more inhibited. Thats the huge and biggest difference between adults and children, we've been for want of a better word programmed, we wont embarrass ourselves, or we try not to. We hold on too tight.
I dont have a hatred of music per se, i do have a hatred of it's use as a distraction, and a hatred of people who are not considerate to others.
Now interestingly, I dont know why, but I feel it's more a mathematical ability, I do have the strange ability specially focused on classical (not that i like it more) to actually effectively predict what country the composer is from by the freq used.
I know that the frequencies used in rap music do put me into a severe rage. I figure that must have been the purpose of it, to enrage people to do such things as are done in the worlds slums, such as drive by shootings.
It's just not a emotion nor feeling I want to harbor, nor nurture, nor look forward to, u see I dont want my mind and so my body to go to such a place - not in an elevator or ever
Lizanne I wanted to reply to this comment, not just for the above but the feeling that it gave me of care & consideration that you've shown by taking the time to think about it and write it.
That Lizanne IS what I love about the human race, I dont care if i embarrass myself - that's what I love about you
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And always it's a pure pleasure when I get to meet people without dogma, who are receptive to new and different perspectives, because it allows a flow of consciousness that elevates one's thinking. What's particularly nice is when they get that moment of clarity, that moment of insight, that epiphany.
Whats particularly amazing about you Lizanne, is it did not take much work :) And in that lays an answer that says something about you, that it truly means you are a special person, and even though you feel no older than a kid, your children have a special mother. To have one like that that can change and see insight and act on it, it's an incredibly valuable commodity to have for your children's growth as you will be able to give them the possibilities, those moments that you had, your children can expect to have too as they grow up.
It means, as you've said before Lizanne, that we are more alike the more we've connected as the more you have read. And since that's true, then you will show those children of yours, the path, just like I hope I've helped you to the moment of your epiphany. I hope you too approach it the same way, where you don't force them down a road, but guide them, you too humbly allow them to find their own moment of revelation and revel in it.
And in that revelation which can be in harmony of music, the visual pleasure of art, the imagination in literature, the beauty of mathematics, the glory of history, you let them discover world and all that it has to offer, with a gentle and invisible hand holding theirs, but remember ... don't hold on too tight :)
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I think that "divergence" you talk of is really at the heart of it all. Music too. And surprisingly how you too feel not much older than your kids :)
Music, Donald duck, and many other things have changed, it's nicely shown in that Donald Duck that it was meant to educate to show one a higher purpose. Thats gone today. Here is another that Disney never released. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_TlaxmOKqs
Instead if you look on youtube you see mashups, where people apply their own beat to the visuals and there is the rub, you see they are not creating, they are just copying. Ask yourself how much music today is sampled, again the same principle. It just puts a different beat onto the same melody. It's why a lot of "commercial" music really sounds the same, no matter if it's Rehanna, Beyonce, Gaga et all. They have become due to commercialization, interchangeable. They have lost what it means to be an 'artist' and to create because of the demands of the music industry itself - the profit motive. It's also why lyrics are not as important in that kind of music as they once were. Commercialism wrongly assumes $ = connection.
Yet the billboard top music of all time -what do you notice? The most popular is not work of today but work of yesteryear, where the artist was writing the song that communicated a feeling an expression, something about society, possibly the problems and where it was headed, or the dreams and aspirations of people. As mentioned before are not the end goal, rather they are expressions of an end goal - to connect.
It's still why today people stop when a musician plays on the street or at a small concert, it's the connection.
In someways its that to that helps you keep intouch and experience in a new ways, all different things, and it's what children want (nay all of us), it's why they run to mama show what they've done. Connection.
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I read your epiphany comment Lizanne, i love you because you have self-realized, there is -no- embarrassment -nothing- to be ashamed of, to write that you've trying to find the light. It was a brave statement, one that truly deserves the praise of the highest merit.
Because in a world where saying "dont know" is looked on a nearly a sin and everyone avoids it, you have shown the only true way forward, is by two people communicating, sharing, understanding, thinking an not begin afraid to throw away, or build on something.
It's so incredibly important, and yet it so many times over looked, we have to know ourselves, in order to know and understand others, regardless of color, creed or country.
To me the only thing we really have in this world, is not a iphone, not a car, not a large house, no the only thing that really matters and lifts our souls, just like a child's, is the connections and the emotions that sharing give us. Be it through the contact and beauty of finding each other in our minds or in our bodies.
I think we are, the rivers, the mountains, the oceans, the countries, we are and the connections we make to ourselves and humanity are what truly matters. Be it our children, our lovers, friends, or people we have yet to meet, these things are the human experience. A smile, love, sex, hugs, laughter, wink, all are expressions that we've made that connection.
Art, music, dance are simply the expressions of that too, in mankind's feeble way through; the visual, the audible, or movement; to express such connections. There is yet another way, it's the only we have Lizanne words.
That form of communication, the ability to express ourself is, what has taken us from cave paintings to the internet; even though the medium(s) have changed over 4000 years, the need, the desire to make that connection has not evaporated, and I'd safely say it never will.
Not for us, not for children, nor of future generations.
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Thanks for the link, but yes I've studied them all, from the writings of Herodotus, to the math of Pythagoras, the great masters of art, and probably the greatest master of them all nature. But my skills are quite strange in that I can say in what time and location the composer was around.
I'm glad you cried, because it tells me you love kids and see them like i do, a wonder to behold.
Where I believe that kids are inherently free of the constrains of embarrassment of dancing silly, free from the pre-programmed ideas of normality, free from the shackles society and our own minds and society place on us as we "grow up".
I myself, quite honestly have never grown up, I still feel the awe and wonder that is out there, all around us, if we want to be open to it just like children.
And thats why they, children, love music, the patterns, the sounds designed on the golden rules of nature, that harmonize with their very souls. That can make them dance, move, laugh and experience all the positive emotions, now that is something that I do encourage.
But to humble me, it has to come from a place of love, a place of caring, a place where they have the freedom from criticism just to be themselves, and that place I can only see coming from a loving parents heart.
And that's why the negative side of music concerns me so much, it also has the power to be very destructive not only in their lives, but it's as you say Lizanne, inherent in all of us.
And here's a real nice summary explanation of the readings I've done, with regards to music, art, nature.
And it's not only for kids, so watch it too Lizanne, enjoy it, never lose whats special about life, nature, soul, freedom and understanding.
Always be the child. :)
Enjoy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZH3PBdH5WQ
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I'm honestly sorry to disillusion you with such facts, but they are facts.
An example if it were not in the corp interest to have a 'green policy' do you think any would? The reality is they all have because it's now seen in their best interests to have one.. even shell oil has one, and one has to see the irony there. And while the employes of such green departments do go, it's really a pr exercise. You can pollute one country and in another say look we build 4 schools, are we good. The whole has to be measured, not the parts.
DL states it correctly, but I add only small locally owned business can sustain the goals you define. Too often we forget that small business IS the lifeblood, they employ more people, they pay more taxes (by sheer numbers) the deliver what the local communities need every day.
Global business do none of those things, yet people keep believing that they are important. I'd suggest that you look at the top 50 global business's and realize that 50% of them could be wiped out and we'd suffer no loss. There is no way 50% of small business's could be wiped out and the community not suffer a loss.
I fortunately, and simultaneously have lived in some of those places, I'd suggested that you visit, many now I wont go back to, I know it wont be the same, I know culture and traditions will have been lost. I know the diversity that the planet once had with every country being a unique and wonderful experience, is and has been diluted by corp, not only selling their wares, but changing the populations mindset to value and want what they offer. I suggest that in part this is responsible for the Arab Spring, the loss of culture some feel and are fighting tooth and nail to retain, through what ever means they perceive will achieve that goal. Ironically, so are the corps.
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Because of your last kindness, I wanted to and so I thought I'd share this with you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8TFcLgu5Ow
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJD-M2FpKNU
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It's the same for the supermarket, the gym, the elevator, or now the tv's in the bank, post office, it's I believe a way of pacifying people, distracting them. It's like this is a pointless excise waiting in line... so take their mind off it. it's as if we are being treated as children.
Which nicely brings me to the point you made about children and music, I think it's NOT inherently more musical but WE are more inhibited. Thats the huge and biggest difference between adults and children, we've been for want of a better word programmed, we wont embarrass ourselves, or we try not to. We hold on too tight.
I dont have a hatred of music per se, i do have a hatred of it's use as a distraction, and a hatred of people who are not considerate to others.
Now interestingly, I dont know why, but I feel it's more a mathematical ability, I do have the strange ability specially focused on classical (not that i like it more) to actually effectively predict what country the composer is from by the freq used.
I know that the frequencies used in rap music do put me into a severe rage. I figure that must have been the purpose of it, to enrage people to do such things as are done in the worlds slums, such as drive by shootings.
It's just not a emotion nor feeling I want to harbor, nor nurture, nor look forward to, u see I dont want my mind and so my body to go to such a place - not in an elevator or ever
Lizanne I wanted to reply to this comment, not just for the above but the feeling that it gave me of care & consideration that you've shown by taking the time to think about it and write it.
That Lizanne IS what I love about the human race, I dont care if i embarrass myself - that's what I love about you