A Huey helicopter was lost today in Nepal and it was carrying six Marines along with two Nepalese soldiers (unknown if they were soldiers, pilots, etc). The loss of connection is not necessarily a problem but it did not arrive at its destination in support of earthquake relief and it is long-overdue. (CNN: U.S. helicopter missing in Nepal)
There's a lot of soldier activity that pisses me right off and my position on that has not changed even faintly but there is other soldier activity for which I would stand up and salute every time. This is Harriet Tubman pride as they risked themselves for no personal benefit, they did it without guns, and they knew before they started there would be no medals in it as there never are in a rescue effort.
These men can represent me any time as well and I'd be proud to salute as they march by. Hopefully they will be found alive and someday that can happen.
This not a sop to the right for various other hard positions on things but rather I see news and I react if it's worthy. My head is like a pachinko machine as I collect information from sometimes random sources. Cat wonders why I don't focus entirely on music but music doesn't focus entirely on anything. Music is everything because everything is vibration. Get as kozmik with that as you like but the general reality of it is true. There is resonance and harmonic structure in everything in the physical Universe.
Photographers make beautiful art because they look somewhere you didn't. The same applies to music as Beethoven's "Pastorale" is about a summer thunderstorm. There's much more to the story but you have to look for it just as he did. I can't tell you what you will see as that's your story to write.
My music isn't the best and it isn't even that different but it does express well what I try to say. What I say is a reaction to what I see so that's why the supreme importance of looking every possible direction and to wish beyond all reasonable opportunity to have the vision of Muad'dib who could look in every direction at the same time. Of course that destroyed him and much of the Universe but, wtf, there are risks.
Update:
The helicopter has been located and the passengers have been lost. Here is one firm salute to these men who died doing what's right, representing in the finest possible way. I'm proud of them for what they were trying to do.
There's a lot of soldier activity that pisses me right off and my position on that has not changed even faintly but there is other soldier activity for which I would stand up and salute every time. This is Harriet Tubman pride as they risked themselves for no personal benefit, they did it without guns, and they knew before they started there would be no medals in it as there never are in a rescue effort.
These men can represent me any time as well and I'd be proud to salute as they march by. Hopefully they will be found alive and someday that can happen.
This not a sop to the right for various other hard positions on things but rather I see news and I react if it's worthy. My head is like a pachinko machine as I collect information from sometimes random sources. Cat wonders why I don't focus entirely on music but music doesn't focus entirely on anything. Music is everything because everything is vibration. Get as kozmik with that as you like but the general reality of it is true. There is resonance and harmonic structure in everything in the physical Universe.
Photographers make beautiful art because they look somewhere you didn't. The same applies to music as Beethoven's "Pastorale" is about a summer thunderstorm. There's much more to the story but you have to look for it just as he did. I can't tell you what you will see as that's your story to write.
My music isn't the best and it isn't even that different but it does express well what I try to say. What I say is a reaction to what I see so that's why the supreme importance of looking every possible direction and to wish beyond all reasonable opportunity to have the vision of Muad'dib who could look in every direction at the same time. Of course that destroyed him and much of the Universe but, wtf, there are risks.
Update:
The helicopter has been located and the passengers have been lost. Here is one firm salute to these men who died doing what's right, representing in the finest possible way. I'm proud of them for what they were trying to do.
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