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8月29日 Thought for the day...Was watching tv today and came across this quote which somewhat resonated with me:
"Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training."
- Anna Freud
Austrian psychoanalyst & psychologist (1895 - 1982)
After searching online I found another good quote by the same author:
"I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time"
- Anna Freud
How appropriate I find these after Orford...
-R 8月26日 AngstDo you often go to bed feeling the weight of the world on your shoulders? Do you feel the travesties, the disparities, the inequality, the injustice, the hate out there in the world? You have to. You're every part of the mosaic of our existence as anyone else. We each play our part, affecting the lives of those around us. Like an exchange of energy, it cannot be created or destroyed. For every action there is an opposite and equal reaction. Eventually, indirectly or directly, you are affected by the decisions others make as well as the decisions you make every day.
How can we sit idle and apathetic knowing this? How irresponsible we are to ignore these injustices that occur every minute of the day and sit in our cozy chairs and couches watching CNN while drinking a latte. We are so easily connected with the rest of the world through the miracles of technology; we can see what happens on the other side of the earth, we witness the atrocities occuring in the middle east and overseas and yet the real miracle is that we are more disconnected than ever before. We try and ignore what we know, what is happening and blindly put our faith in others to solve the problems of the world today. Should we hide in our day to day lives, comfortable with what we have and never question the status quo? Should we put blind faith in those we elect to government to solve the worlds problems and then scurry about like a hamster content on its running wheel knowing where we end up at the end of the day?
But we're not hamsters. We're human. The human condition is such so that we will always want more. We want the best for ourselves and we want to protect those important to us. We want to be in control of our own destiny. Everyone on this planet shares the same values regardless of race, relgion, sexual orientatation or any other segregating factor. How can you sleep comfortably at night while someone else was dragged from their bed because their beliefs were deemed dangerous, only because they threaten to undermine the carefully planned existence created by those whose primary purpose (idealistically) is to protect the rights and values of their very citizens? Yes there is a paradox which is ubiquitous across the world. It can be found in almost every government on earth and especially within the major players of the world today. I don't have to mention the unmentionables but unless you've been living in a hole you should know what's been going on in the world today.
War on Terror. That has to be the the most oxymoronish phrase I have ever read in my life. I just don't understand how a country can go to war and not even understand why. To preserve freedoms they say. Or because of what happened on 9/11. When were freedoms preserved when the Bush administration ignored the intelligence that there was to be an impending terrorist attack? Were freedoms preserved when George Bush sat in an elementary school classroom for some 20 minutes after being informed what had happened in NYC? Of course not! I would even go to say that the Bush administration wilfully allowed those attacks to happen so that they could begin reshaping the middle east as they see fit. America, when are you going to do the right thing and elect a government that wishes to serve you instead of the other way around?
I'd write more but a) there's just too much going on in my head about this subject to sort out and b) this has made me tired.
Feel free to comment on this and offer your own feelings about the state of the world today. I'd be interested to hear what you have to say, even if it is "stick a sock in it Ryan." 8月18日 Le retour vers EdmontonI'm back in Edmonton. What else can I say to describe the feeling I have after leaving absolute, unadulterated musical bliss. Now I return to my academically tainted musical lifestyle here in Edmonton. It's actually not as bad as I let it on to be, but I look forward to when this degree will be over and I will no longer have to churn out papers that distract me from practicing and what I really want to do. The last week in Orford was the best by far and a little crazy in terms of the partying that some of the students and myself partook in. A lof of alcohol was consumed on Thursday evening last week with many shenanigans occuring that night. As I like to think, whatever happened then, happened then and we do not need to revisit those events. Nevertheless we all survived the night and groggily emerged from our beds the next morning..... Maneli Pirzadeh who teaches at the Université de Montréal, the second teacher I studied with at Orford is a great teacher for someone who is so young! Her and I had such a wonderful symbiotic relationship in our lessons we decided I would try and audition for the Université de Montréal DESS program (dipôme en études supérieures spécialisées) which is a two year program dedicated to interpretation and performance that one can complete after a Bachelor or Masters degree. This is extremely exciting for me because I'll be able to focus (fuckus for my francophone readers) solely on performance and improve my playing. This also means I might be moving to Montréal next year. I REALLY need to start saving money. Now that I'm back in Edmonton I've been going crazy trying to put my house in order. My bathroom faucet decided to finally quit and start leaking everywhere so I had to buy a new one plus I need to clean my apartment which seems to have accumulated an inch of dust since I left three weeks ago. I guess the piano will have to wait until the week-end or even next week. I'm going to try and put up some more pics of my trip. The problem is they're not my pics because I was smart and didn't bring a camera so I will be harassing the other people who were at Orford to help me out. I uploaded one taken in Montréal with three friends I met at Orford (thanks Laurent). Until next time, -R |
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