The talent of the human animal never ceases to astound me. I was viewing a scene from the Hubell Telescope went I ran across this video, it just blows me away. I can't even play a triangle in tune. Eat your heart out Ekovox!
http://www.flixxy.com/little-north-korean-girl-playing-guitar.htm
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"The sound "squaw," regardless of its spelling, is OUR word for woman, and it is NOT to be used as an insult! When I hear it spoken by Native peoples, in its proper context, I hear the voices of the ancestors. I am reminded of powerful grandmothers who nurtured our people and fed the strangers, of proud women chiefs who stood up against them, and of mothers and daughters and sisters who still stand here today. In their honor I demand that our language, our women, and our history, be treated with respect.
Thank you for listening."
Wlibomkanni, travel well.
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...Anybody who thinks you need religion in order to be good is being good for the wrong reason. I’d rather be good for moral reasons. Morals were here before religion, and morals change rather rapidly in spite of religion. Even people who rely on the Bible use nonbiblical criteria. If your criteria are scriptural, you have no basis for choosing the verse that says turn the other cheek rather than the verse that says stone people to death. So you pick and choose without guidance from the Bible...
...I draw strength from reflecting on what a privilege it is to be alive and what a privilege it is to have a brain that’s capable in its limited way of understanding why I exist and of reveling in the beauty of the world and the beauty of the products of evolution. The magnificence of the universe and the sense of smallness that gives us in space and in geologically deep time is humbling but in a strangely comforting way. It’s nice to feel you’re part of a hugely bigger picture...
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11 comments:
WOW!!!!!!
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I think that maybe I slighted Ekovox though. The poor little kid will probably NEVER be able to play a bass guitar like Eko!
The tune that she is playing sounds like it could be the theme song for a Clint Eastwood movie.
It's not what most of us would consider a childhood to be groomed as a performer for the state.
Check out the Vice Guide to North Korea, part 3, at the 7 minute mark. Do a search on the website for 'north korea' to find the other parts. It's a must-see.
Ummmm - (whispers) Ernie? pRodigy
Wait 'till Bud Rogers sees this!
Today, also through the joy of the internet glimpsing a rare sliver of the Hubble telescopes incomprehensibly expanding universe (http://www.flixxy.com/hubble-ultra-deep-field-3d.htm) to this remarkable child from a far away place on our planet, I'm left in utter awe. What a world we live in!
But AJ noted another bittersweet side of that beautiful North Korean child that's well taken.
Now, I'm not so sure of the world we live in. I'd wish that given our evolution, intelligence and humanity, science and technology, and the ability to provide resources and food from this wonderful planet, we'd have eliminated the sources of these contradictions and conflicts long ago.
Especially after seeing not only our place in the universe but what should be the joyous face of a beautiful and innocent child beholden with wondrous talent.
Thanks Rose. Sometimes my fingers just can't figure out what my brain is thinking, especially when my brain doesn't tell my eyeballs to put their glasses on.
I made Skippy's URL into a link. It's a fasinating 3-D trip into deep, deep space. Can you say billions and billions?
Thanks, Ernie. I was just learning how you use these HTML links, too. Came across a tutorial explaining how for readers here
Still practicing. Awesome. Thanks for the push, Ernie, I learned something new today! (I found it helpful here to 'preview' one's comment, below, to see how if comes through and if the link works beforehand)
AJ
I replied to you to thank you for the info on North Korea, but something ate it, so thanks.
It's amazing that a leader of a country would use his people as pixels for a stadium sized TV screen. No wonder they can't support themselves.
As to how well off the little girl is can be the subject of another post.
Well, how 'well off' the child is differs from the quality of her childhood. It's surely a poor childhood when viewed by our standards, but given the dismal life that many in North Korea experience, I'm sure her parents are thankful their daughter is where she is. If you prove useful to the state, surely you are treated better than the masses.
I can do that....I just don't want to.
We have scores of young people who are talented and well above average in the Klamath-Trinity region. And, all of their parents are very good looking, too. But, we keep it a secret. I mean, would you want the world to know and have a bevy of newcomers move into your region and change the whole persona of the place...I don't think so.
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