Before I hoove off and run off into the rest of the week…I have two things to report…both of them about connection.
Firstly, L&P have done something quite amazing for me. L is so plugged in, you see, to the 99% uni-mind that she jammed up a song, just out of the blue, or the pink, whichever way you see it. The lyrics for which were sent to me recently and, as I expected, it’s exactly how I have been feeling. I have the best friends in the world, all over the world. P summed it up when he said “wow, that’s very Breeders”. Thank you darlinks. Only you know why.
Secondly, my brother called me up this morning during a long-haul-ass drive and said “get on the internet and find this song”. So, I did. And thank him for hooking me up with this. Lest we forget, people, that it matters not how many medals anybody won, or that a really tall man can run really fast, that there are people not making the news and getting twenty-four hour coverage on CNN, who really should be. What am I talking about? I’m talking about Lionel Bastos’ Tears Falling In Tibet that you can have a look at here. And I hope you do. Lest we forget, people.
In both cases above, I see how it is indeed possible for people who may be entirely geographically distant from a situation, to still be able to resonate with someone hurting or with a cause for which they have no specific face. So, you see, peeps, if these people can feel and not be in the same room, I have to ask, why can’t the whole human race? Why are we fighting so much when we so easily could resonate?
A little empathy wouldn’t go amiss in these strange times. Neither does a little dancing. Neither does a little slipknot (and no, folks, Slipknot does not make you want to stab your classmate, being an asshole does)
=)
And that’s my random thought for today.
Wow. And again wow.
Regarding slipknot: One of my nieces at a joburg school was threatened along with her mates by one of their classmates. Apparently he said he was going to come to school andd blow their heads off so some other reason.
WTF is going on in schools nowadays? And why do we always blame popular culture?
wow… you’re so right! and music is powerful indeed