For you television viewers, keep an eye out for Wesley the 3 year old skateboarding kid. He’s fantastic and hooray for Mom and Dad Muresan for their encouragement for him to explore his world with his innate skills!
Bobby McFerrin (born New York City, March 11, 1950) is one of the natural wonders of the music world. A ten-time Grammy Award winner, he is one of the world’s best-known vocal innovators and improvisers, a world-renowned classical conductor, the creator of “Don’t Worry Be Happy”, one of the most popular songs of the late 20th century, and a passionate spokesman for music education. His recordings have sold over 20 million copies, and his collaborations including those with with Yo-Yo Ma, Chick Corea, the Vienna Philharmonic, and Herbie Hancock have established him as an ambassador of both the classical and jazz worlds.
With a four-octave range and a vast array of vocal techniques, McFerrin is no mere singer; he is music’s last true Renaissance man, a vocal explorer who has combined jazz, folk and a multitude of world music influences – choral, a cappella, and classical music – with his own ingredients. As a conductor, Bobby is able to convey his innate musicality in an entirely different context. He has worked with such orchestras as the New York Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Vienna Philharmonic.
‘Unconventional’ is a good way to describe the career of Bobby McFerrin. Those familiar with McFerrin’s shows, whether as a conductor or a vocalist, know that each one is a unique event that resonates with the unexpected. He is that rare artist who has the ability to reach beyond musical genres and stereotypes for a sound that is entirely his own. As one of the foremost guardians of music’s rich heritage, he remains at the vanguard with his natural, beautiful and timeless music that transcends all borders and embraces all cultures.
“When I’m on stage by myself, I don’t have to think about anything. I don’t have to worry about anything because I’m not responsible for anything except just opening my mouth and making sure music comes out.”
*Bobby McFerrin
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“‘Tchamantch’ stems from a simple inspiration the sound of an old Gretsch guitar and employs a traditional pop rhythm section. The instrumentation is often sparse, contrasting the Gretsch or the classic Silvertone guitar with subtle percussion effects provided by human beat box and hip-hop artist Sly Johnson, or the nagoni, the tiny, sharp-edged West African lute that has always been an integral part of her sound, played alongside the Western classical harp.” There is plenty more on the page. The whole album is excellentay!
h/t goes to two very sensational kiddos, YA and Aline.
We also know the Grand Poobahs who pull the Puppeteer’s strings, don’t we?
Originally posted 2009-06-17 11:26:15. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
I don’t care if the narrator is a bit cheesy in his narration. When you watch this National Geographic movie of love and romance, I promise, you will better understand Tina Turner’s song, “What’s love got to do with it,” if you didn’t understand it before today.
Hat tip: Pharyngula
February 2010 will have:
It occurs once every 11 years
And if you missed it, both January 10th and 11th, 2010, were
binary numbers with the inclusion of today’s date.
“A soul mate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks. When we feel safe enough to open the locks, our truest selves step out and we can be completely and honestly who we are; we can be 
loved for who we are and not for who we’re pretending to be. Each unveils the best part of the other. No matter what else goes wrong around us, with that one person we’re safe in our own paradise. Our soul mate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we’re two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we’ve found the right person. Our soul mate is the one who makes life come to life.”
*Richard Bach
Why I wonder do we always look for other things to make us feel complete. The love of another human being or anything be it animal , mineral or vegetable is not the answer. We must first be complete within ourselves then have the love of another to accentuate the person we are and have yet to become since we’re in a constant state of change, anyway.Besides that, it is healthy and not all consuming as if it was or is a sense of ownership which is extremely unhealthy reasoning and will stifle any growing relationship rather quickly.
We don’t just have a new year to mess up, we have a brand spanking new decade! Happy Monkey!
Those with whom we assemble we will soon resemble, so the simple old saying goes. It also tells of a deep Truth. It says that who we are – the stuff of our soul at this moment – is being transformed continuously by the nature of the company we keep; so that, in (our) essence or breath, we are always moving and evolving towards a kind of psychic unity or oneness with whatever relationships we have revolving around us so it is that we are “within. This “company” we keep refers both to the kinds of people “outside” of us and the presence of accompanying thoughts and feelings circulating within us.
To see the nature of this type of practice and how it works within us, shaping our soul’s possibilities – just imagine how a cold piece of iron or damp wood soon assumes the nature of the fire as it is brought into its proximity. Radiant energy is transferred from one to the other, and soon what has no luminous properties of its own soon is transformed and begins to glow. Moreover, with all this in mind, now consider there are four distinct types of people that can be identified by the four dark spirits inhabiting them. By recognizing these dark forces at work in others, we can learn to catch their dark works within ourselves. Also, once we have the Light to see what is so (in us), we are on our way to being set free from the enslavement inherent in living in the dark of ourselves. Those who aspire to the Light need to recognize these sick spirits and reject their poisonous expressions. The following is a list of four ways to stop sick spirits or thoughts from infecting you. Your detection and rejection of them depends upon your awareness of their presence and your refusal to take part in the spiritual sickness they live to spread. These spiritually dark thoughts must use human beings as their physical instruments, without which they have neither sound nor voice on earth.
The muckrakers: These negative spirits live to drag up old painful events and then revel in the anger, resentment, or bitterness that such unhappy memories must hold in the fabric of their cloth. Stay away from any spirit, in others or in yourself, that wants you to dive into some suffering over what happened in any yesterday. Never consent by stooping to past resentments.
The dirt throwers: Certain low and malicious spirits pull themselves up by pulling others down. They love to gossip, criticize, judge, or denigrate anyone who ever had the misfortune of spending time with them. The only loyalty these denizens of the unconscious worlds have is to their own pain that they feed by involving everyone they can with their dirt throwing. Caveat…don’t bite into one bit of it!
The mud dwellers: There is a group of mired spirits that thrive on low vibrations but that require a human instrument to play out their endless dark hungering. Easily recognizable, these mis-fortunate forces serve up dreadful mental pictures, or tell unsuitable sex jokes, for the sake of the unnatural reactions they produce. Ignore these messed-up spirits and they must take their mud-making elsewhere.
The life-haters: This group of sick spirits perpetuates their hold on the human soul by resisting almost every gift that life offers. They want us to listen to their complaints, agree with their envy, and accept as right their rejection of life when it doesn’t please them. These chronically conflicted spirits need us to join in their party or they can’t spread their poison. This circle of sick spirits needs our lives in order to live. Without us they have no home. Our real inner work is to sweep clean the places in ourselves where such creatures reside.
Remember: These absurd entities have no entrance into our lives apart from where we have left an open doorway. Additionally, whatever has been left open in our unconsciousness can be closed consciously, if we so choose. So, begin today, this very moment, to withdraw any permission inadvertently granted to these dark spirits to exist in your life. Do not judge yourself, nor those around you in whom any of these misdirected forces are active, take heed and become awakened to the overt and covert signs refuse to spend one more moment of your life lending your life force to dark, self-serving purposes.
Originally posted 2006-06-06 21:57:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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