This meshes so beautifully with today's post from the Center for Action and Contemplation:
All things draw from the same wellspring of spiritual energy. This means that the sermonic and religious can be mediated through a saxophone just as effectively as through a pastor…. How can this be?... [Can] tapping feet and blues guitar strokes … evoke the contemplative moment and call the listener to a deeper understanding of inner and outer realities?... The need to create impermeable boundaries between the sacred and the secular is … a much more recent appropriation of western values….
The subtleties and light touch of this brass quartet provided quite a surprise, and reminded me to temper my judgments until I have more information. Glad I didn’t go with “first impressions” from the photograph—can I remember that next time I’m ready to go with my assumptions?
This meshes so beautifully with today's post from the Center for Action and Contemplation:
All things draw from the same wellspring of spiritual energy. This means that the sermonic and religious can be mediated through a saxophone just as effectively as through a pastor…. How can this be?... [Can] tapping feet and blues guitar strokes … evoke the contemplative moment and call the listener to a deeper understanding of inner and outer realities?... The need to create impermeable boundaries between the sacred and the secular is … a much more recent appropriation of western values….
Thank you!
Thanks for sharing that "mesh." Love it!
At the very least, DO NO HARM 🙏
The subtleties and light touch of this brass quartet provided quite a surprise, and reminded me to temper my judgments until I have more information. Glad I didn’t go with “first impressions” from the photograph—can I remember that next time I’m ready to go with my assumptions?
I love this, Julie. So often when I'm scavenging for boost material, I bump against the limits of my first impressions!