Holding
The mind, like the dyer’s hand, is colored by what it holds.
Each of us sees the world through a filter of our own design. Follow the above link to a beautiful photograph.
Rahim AlHaj at the Kennedy Center
Rahim played at the Kennedy Center a couple of days ago:
Rahim AlHaj @ Kennedy Center – a photoset on Flickr
Millenium Stage Blog about the concert.
You can check out some of his music HERE.
Great video from his latest recording HERE.
Santa Fe
santa fe convention and visitors bureau: Media Center/Press Room/City Profile
Santa Fe was designated a UNESCO Creative City in 2005, the first U.S. city to be so honored and currently one of only five Creative Cities in the world.
The Global Alliance for Cultural Diversity’s Creative Cities Network
The Creative Cities Network connects creative cities so that they can share experiences, know-how, training in business skills and technology.
Santa Fe
The city continues to evolve as a hub for cultural industries as artists, visionaries, entrepreneurs and countless visitors come to Santa Fe to be inspired by and to take part in a rich and unique aesthetic tradition. Santa Fe’s appointment to the Creative Cities Network is a testament to the city’s important achievements in cultural industry development, and it fosters the city’s drive to share experiences, knowledge and best-practices with other cultural clusters on a global platform.
Immersion
Like being so immersed in music that you can’t tell if you are listening or playing!
Yes, that is a wonderful experience. I think that it is the reason musicians do what they do… to get into that zone, that flow. In that zone one is gazing instead of staring, one is aware instead of concentrating. If one starts to concentrate – on listening, or on the melody, or any one of the million facets of the crystal – it all falls apart. A very elaborate cardhouse. A multi-faceted crystal or diamond. And when the piece is played and done with, one can’t remember why or how it happened.
Thankfully we had quite a few moments like that during this last tour. Delicious.
Words get in the Way
I think for normal people language is probably a kind of filter. One of the biggest challenges for an animal or an autistic person is dealing with the barrage of details from the environment.
From Animals in Translation. Dr. Grandin points out that when most people hear the word bowl – they just think of an abstract container, while an autistic person is likely to run through many detailed mental images of different kinds of bowls.
I brought the book with me on tour and enjoyed it very much. Highly recommended.
