How Do You Spell “Om?”
Um… Ohm? See my guest post to On Simplicity - thanks, Sara!
And my two young arms dropped to the floor tom,
A swift triplet ending it on a bass kick. Then smash it,
Crash it, thrashing the flashing gold
Of every cymbal flaring its fascinating dish
Of overlapping reverberations like a chorus of monks
Sustaining fading Ohms, underpinned by the
Thick and solid thud of the bass drum…
Excepted from my poem “Cutting Time”
Listening to music can be a spiritual experience, and making music too – yes even if you play the drums…
"Secular Values" vs. Faith in the Public Schools
. . . is the topic for my Thursday Oct. 8th guest post at Mom-E-Centric. Thanks for having me, Jerri!
And my two young arms dropped to the floor tom,
A swift triplet ending it on a bass kick. Then smash it,
Crash it, thrashing the flashing gold
Of every cymbal flaring its fascinating dish
Of overlapping reverberations like a chorus of monks
Sustaining fading Ohms, underpinned by the
Thick and solid thud of the bass drum…
Excepted from my poem “Cutting Time”
Listening to music can be a spiritual experience, and making music too – yes even if you play the drums…
"Secular Values" vs. Faith in the Public Schools
. . . is the topic for my Thursday Oct. 8th guest post at Mom-E-Centric. Thanks for having me, Jerri!
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4 Comments:
Wish I had been able to visit more of your guest posts recently, I will try and make this next one...interested in all this secular brainwashing you were/art part of!!
words.. they can make a difference between continents.
the noise at my jamming studios are not quite music some of the time. it's more like crash crash boom and eeeeeee.. *heavy feedback from the amps*
but i guess some of musicians do find those noises spiritually uplifting.
At that time I found the report hilarious because I underestimated the ability of highly ideological-minded people to successfully and often deliberately perpetrate falsehoods (cf. the current health care debate). Because I used the DUSO program with first graders myself, I knew for a fact that the stories were about such sinister matters as not insisting on being first in line, putting your things away, and finishing your work.
Tuti - I have really average musical talent but practiced a lot in high school because I was really shy and had no social life until senior year. Not a lot of kids practice as much as I did in - two, often three hours a day - so that did make me a standout in h.s. and good enough to play local gigs as a way of earning money in college and into my early twenties.
But I've met a few truly gifted musicians, including one drummer - and I wasn't one of them!
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