Sent to: Yahoo! Groups: DrumCircles Messages: Message 7335
Date: Thu Jun 5, 2K3 5:56 PM
What Are You? By Reverend R Clark <clark@acceleration.net>
Greetings Stephen, Barky and ALL!
At 03:51 PM 6/5/2003, stephen sharpe wrote:
I've been wondering what folk 'label' themselves as, when others ask, “What is it that you do?”
I "R."
I take no label willingly. I accept that others need such to organize their world, so I don't argue if labeled by others. I prefer to eschew such limitations and focus on what actions I perform, that is where the labels go, if any are to be applied appropriately in my nothing to be humble about opinion.Even accepting the title of Reverend was a challenge for me and it is relatively well known what to expect from an ordained minister. Being as how DCF (which I am not) and other labels of a similar nature need explaining and definition with most folks, I'd skip the term/title and go straight to the explanation.
Does this help?
Drumming Peace, R“Things should be as simple as possible, but not simpler.”
“When the solution is simple, God is answering.”
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955, German-born American Physicist, Person of the 20th Century)“We make boundaries so that we can feel separate and move coherently
through the world: it's part of our necessary natural growth to do that. In
doing it, we forget the secret, which is that we are not separate...
Respect your limits. Love your limits; they protect you from an abundance
so immense it can be intolerable. If, however, you stretch your limits
also, you will move in the direction of receiving and becoming
unconditional love.”
- Julie Henderson, "The Lover Within"“Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity.”
- (The Republic, Book 3, 400-D)“Rhythm and melody enter into the soul of the well-instructed youth and produce there a certain mental harmony hardly obtainable in any other way.”
“Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is good, just and beautiful, of which it is the invisible, but nevertheless dazzling, passionate, and eternal form.”
- Plato (Greek philosopher, c.427-327 B.C.)“I like to play with people who can play simple and are not threatened by other musicians thinking they can't play. And that eliminates 99 percent of the musicians.”
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