I only got up because I was sick, but realizing that I was alone gave me pause to really pray intently, uninterrupted. My answer was not what I expected. Though it really serves me right for expecting anything. I ought to know better by now. I'm still waiting for my video to finish. It is a fireplace with a burning fire accompanied by some Absolute music that I wrote. Wait, what is absolute music? I remember two things. 1)the Harvard Music dictionary that I was rewriting to be funny but only music majors "got" any of my jokes. 2)The papers that I wrote in college, my professors would put question marks next to words. Now, that happens in scrabble alot but not in papers about th industrial revolution and how it effected European literature. I did tend to make up word because of a frustration to say what I was thinking.
I studied music because I have always had trouble with words. Absolute music is Music in it's pure form, an example of it would be instrumentals. It doesn't have lyrics. I played some songs for the children in primary once and gave them paper and crayons and a sked them to draw what comes to mind. I was hoping to teach alternate ways of communication. Ends up I taught Confidence. I was shocked as I saw the pictures were exactly what I was trying to portray in song. I then asked if anyone wanted to share their picture or talk about it, to be sure we understood them. At first, no one wanted to share, out of embarassment, but after a few kids told what the thought of, and everyone agreed then they all wanted to share their pictures and meanings. They realized that it was not a sissy thing to listen to music or feel a way, infact everyone else did, too. I leaerned alot about strength in numbers that day, or about popularity, lol Lemmings... ok, It's almost done.
My next video is going to be Bary Manilow singing "If" but I'll use a photo of Monalisa. It ought to be fun to do. That reminds me of another story..
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