Written on
March 4, 2010 by
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My son, Matt, and I visited NYC for two days this week. On the flight out there, we listened to Coltrane’s First Meditations. Each tune represents an emotion or state of being. Listening to Coltrane’s Serenity made me think about how we can all have different ideas about the same thing. To me, Serenity would have a sense of space. Delicate, with few notes. Coltrane’s interpretation seems to be filled with drama, and to my ears, tension. How would you compose Serenity, Love, Compassion, Joy, Consequences? What instruments would you use? What would your music sound like? It’s interesting to think of representing subjective, invisible emotions with something tangible. It seems that must be the core of art.
Written on
February 28, 2010 by
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Poetry
Linear time stretches
Farther than the eye can see
Farther than the spirit can sense
The spirit is outside of time
And feels confined by the line
Of hours and seconds,
Of deadlines –
The resistance
Creates friction within the body
And is eased by body and mind
Acknowledging
The delicate crossing –
Visible, invisible
Tangible, intangible
The click of the clock, the sweep of space
Taking time out of the breakneck race
To expand the mind
To travel in dreams
To float above tedious realities
And to explore the great mysteries
December 2009
Written on
February 28, 2010 by
in
Poetry
An endless streak of clouds,
Uninterrupted highways in the sky
Smooth, gauzy lines –
Far above the rough bumps
And stubbed toes
Way down here, down below –
Put me on a sailboat with João Gilberto
Unfurl that sail
We’ll catch the glass current that expands
Up there
We really don’t care to where
It’s a peaceful, steady ride
The sun shines in golden rays,
Gleams on our boat and warms our faces
A maiden voyage easing to comfortable places
November, 2009