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- Bird Song -
She says, "If you really loved me you would bring me lox and bagels not those crummy crabs and eels which you know I hate. Furthermore I am really tired of you going off with your friends fishing everyday when I know you just want to get away from me ...are you listening Henry? All I do all day is try to get you to talk to me - we never talk anymore you know. I wish you would tell me about your feelings and your emotions .. honestly Henry I really don't know you because you don't talk to me about the things that are important to me. Yadda ...Yadda..Yadda...yad....."
He hears, "Yadda ...Yadda..Yadda...yad....."
(Next week, Henry responds.)
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Oliver Nelson, the great Jazz saxophonist, composer and arranger who died early at age 43, produced one of the best Jazz albums of all time titled, Blues and the Abstract Truth in 1961 with an all star ensemble. This album came back to me as I was preparing the following six photos which I took a few days ago as Lee was discussing arrangements with a hotel in Bar Harbor to host a conference later in the Summer. Abstraction rarely attracted my attention during most of my time in New York City even though I frequented the major citadels of Modern Art hanging in the Museum Of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum, or the Whitney Museum. Somehow lately I became fascinated with digital photography and simplicity in images, not necessarily abstraction, is becoming something I desire to capture here and there.
The above mentioned album is in its own way smooth and easy going, yet complex in its vision and execution. It seems that is a lesson I know very well, before anything reaches its essence, its simplicity, a lot of effort and work go into being able to say at long last, "Now, I understand. Now I know what I am seeing is telling me." This is a state that is beyond words - it must be experienced after all the words have gone home and the heart becomes quiet.
Here are a few things that I saw at the hotel which captured my attention. I offer no further explanation except for a hope that you will tell me if something is moved in you by any of the images.
An example of what complexity of music can bring listen to the following tribute to the superb Sufi singer Nusrat Fetah Ali Kahn. If your heart wants to dance to the music, that is the transformation into simplicity.
Click here: https://www.box.com/s/mixiuab9j97rtq3sv21l
By - Cheikh Lo Zikrouhahi, Titled "A Prayer For Nusrat"
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Some Humor:
Until next week, Peace, Bill Lagerstrom
