Yesterday the mail guy handed us a bulging Priority Mail box from Houston, Texas…
What could it be?
Monthly Archive for July, 2008
That sounds a little silly on the face of it; let’s see. First, I notice that when thinking ceases, I see things I’ve not seen previously. Thinking requires memory. The advantages of a child’s point of view may stem, in part, from their inexperience, i.e. less stuff to remember. Without some intentional mindfulness, I forget to remember to forget memory. It is fascinating how magical consciousness can be without preconceptions. It is fascinating how easy it is to access this moment to moment wonder.
It is fascinating how easy it is to forget to remember to forget to remember to forget to remember… now this is getting silly.
Last week (oops, actually two months ago, as it took a while to get this posted) I sang bass in a performance of Franz Schubert’s Mass in G at First Congregational Church:
Click play to listen. Photos and story after the jump. … Continue reading ‘Luke sings bass in a tux on the risers’
These are a tenacious bunch of snap dragon type flowers clinging to the cliffs at the beach. It is a pleasant sight to look up from yoga and see their smiley faces.
Here’s a tiny little one off to the side:… Continue reading ‘Springtime At the Beach’
I wonder if it’s worth all the gas I’d burn to heat up the griddle. . .
Tomorrow I will be flying to Cordova, Alaska for to teach at the annual Cordova 4-H Music Camp. This will be my second year. I’m excited! Last year was a blast, and this year I have a better idea of what to expect, and plus it’ll be interesting to see how their new book works out (more on that in a minute). The camp is a week long, but I’ll be gone for ten days total. (In fact, it’ll be the longest stretch of time I’ve ever been away from my family.)
The camp itself consists of five days of classes. The kids, which range from eight year-olds to teenagers, each take three hour-long classes on (generally three different) bluegrass instruments, Monday through Friday. They also rehearse together in bands, each coached by an instructor, which perform around town Saturday afternoon and at a concert Saturday night. I’ll be teaching all banjo this year. Would rather be teaching various instruments, but they need more banjo teachers. (And I thought they were trying to be a good influence to the kids! 
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… Continue reading ‘Off to Alaska! (The 2008 Cordova Music Camp)’
What an outrageous notion. Outrageous but true for the most part I suspect. Allow me to educate you. It has been my experience (and yours too I guess) that deeper understanding is a slow process of realizing what I don’t need to know. Education can never teach us what we don’t need to know. The scope is way to broad, infinitely broad, for that. So, in truth, we use education to set things up so they can be laid aside. Kind of ironic don’t you think. Yet another irony is the fact that we need to put education on its ‘pedestal of value’ so we will take it seriously enough to set it up. But, let’s keep this a secret between us. The social order may collapse if wind of this gets out.
—Carl
June 21st was the Japanese Cultural Fair here in Santa Cruz. We got together with Kevin to play a few Tsugaru pieces on stage. Here, Kevin kicked it off the set with a rousing Aiya Bushi. Complete with both major and minor versions!
After, Luke and I came up on stage to play the folk song Yasaburo Bushi while Kevin…got jiggy with it.
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