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The Link Blues

Kilu I think of you
And all that we could do
But all the things you say and do
Are all inside of you.

Kilu ka think
I lose and blink
And sink inside of
You

Kiluk ka-link
And think and that is s all that I can I do.

G with a C in the 5

This moment: Resolution. Question: What’s the end. Answer: G with a C in the 5. Works with C or G. The pattern is found in music and voice to indicate finality. However, space can invert the end. With space comes time. In time repetition defines meter. Existence occurs.

Shakey Hands @ 71 and Still Having Fun

Essential tremors.  20% of people get them. They come and they go.

I use to thread a needle with my hands. Now, I can’t even pick my nose. I call it shaky hands and that’s how it goes. I just wish they’d let me know what keyboard key executes a function.  Anyway, shaky hands  on the computer keyboard creates opportunity. I usually screw up what I’m writing, not knowing which key or that my hand has inadvertently struck a key. Whatever I was writing simply disappears. That, in turn, frees me to shake  something else.

71 presents an interesting  viewpoint. Time to get busy!

Learning

A fast way to learn is to teach. When teaching, you see what is not known by the pupil and instruction and demonstration is presented to empower the student to mastery. However, it is likely that the student’s  instruction given can be applied to something applicable to teacher need of mastery.

True. The teacher’s mastery may beyond the student’s. True, also, that the teacher’s failures can, by applying what was taught to the student, also  become the focal point of the teacher’s study and mastery.  Of course, any mastery simply leads to the next level of failure in seeking perfection.

Thus, it is: A teacher learns as much from each student, each of whom  is to be thanked.

Time-Life Illusion 2016

As I approached the “new” year, a week before the “old” year ended, I thought of what I wanted to accomplish in the next time period, 2016.  Unfortunately, what I wanted to do, musically, had not occurred in 2015, with goals set in 2014.  Apparently, the fact was a no-brainer!

Whatever I’d set as goals in 2014 would simply be carried forward, without regret, without conditions and without guilt or frustration.  It appeared to me that the failure to achieve goals and objectives was simply a matter of priority-interruptions (as we say in the computer operating system and hardware business) .  I simply considered 2016 as a release of prior completed processes that opened the mind-share to 2014 goals and objective.

Personal ideas conceived only bear fruit when completed.  Thus, the fact remained that my ideas were at least 2.5 years ahead of the physical manifestation in 2016.  How much farther ahead of my reality is my mental conceptions?  In some cases, I’ll not live to see the fruition of mind.  On the other hand, today … this moment is what there is to achieve what has been mentally conceived.

Playing my instrument well and learning to perform those melodies I admire is now a possibility.  My technique was coached by John Patitucci.  performance by Wayne Darling and Dan Zimmerman and confidence by John Clayton and Rufus Reid and Buster Williams.  Reggie Workman, Ron Carter,  Richard Davis, Ray Brown, Jaco, Michael Manring, Stanley Clarke, Esperanza Spalding, Paul Jackson, Anthony Jackson and Ray Drumond (among and along with every other bassist I’ve heard on broadcast or recording) can be blamed for my inspiration.  Special thanks goes to Charlie Mingus and James Jameson.  My understanding was coached to execution by Victor Wooten.  All of that occurred in 2015, leading me to finally get to what I wanted to do in 2015.

Forward!  The illusion of time-life manifests, 2.5 years later.

 

I Sleep Alone

In a home of my own, cialis I sleep alone.
Years my slumber was with love and warmth.
Today and tonight I sleep alone.
Soon will be the time of tomb.
The loneliness of an empty room.
Destiny the end of doom.
The fight in on-existent light.
A place of non-existent flight.
It is there I sleep alone.