Far and Away

[Faith-and-Hope]

Cultural communities within the city can work the same way @Kurra ...... gossipy and cliquey, but rail to each other’s emergencies.

[Former-Member]

All the very best with youre retirement Kurra, and for having so many gifts to fill up your days. Moving will be a challenge have you thought of teaching music in your home? There was a time musicianship, singing, piano, guitar,a flute... made me so happy, but sincw Major Depressive episode hit hard in my mid 20's, where singing one phrase would have me bursting into tears, it never quite returned, that joy... Does that make sense? But I still love music - the right melody carries me away - but to produce it now - just sad, like writers block i guess

Who put up that pic of Mt Fuji? Love it - pulled me 'FAR&AWAY' for a moment - bliss 🙂 my son wants to visit Japan too.

Hi everyone xox

[Faith-and-Hope]

Great idea @Former-Member .... for @Kurra to teach music from home .....

It was @soul who posted Mt Fuji .....

G’night

😴

[TAB]

I guess people do it for themselves like they always did @Kurra not that that's a bad thing. No one really 'gives til it hurts' well unless in love or something.. anyway there's crowd funding and all sorts these days. And re gossip in small towns well that only exists if you buy into it. Sure it happens but ignorance can be bliss

[TAB]

Also from long forgotten memory not that it applied directly to me, was that house cleaners can mix with landed gentry in country towns if have similar interests..there's all sorts of quirks that don't apply in cities.. no real 'good suburbs and bad suburbs ' eg . From childs/teenagers eyes all that seemed to matter is if people could maintain their houses at least from street view and not have holes in their clothes and wash themselves. Yes there was lots of clothes mending and soap at our place lol @Kurra

[Appleblossom]

@KurraI understand what you say, but I think there is a difference between total embodiment and immersion and pleasure and "meaning of life" other experiences. Dont take my comments about music out of context. As a music and choral educator  I believe music has great power to heal and that will never change, but I was damaged physically and emotionally by a mother who was musically FAR more musically ambitious than I. My childhood dreams were more about writing and science.  Part of neck issue {15 years extreme agony) was due to her continual digs telling me I did not practise enough whilst an adult and parenting. At the time I did not have the wherewithall to reply or even put her comments in context. I was being pushed and bumped around left right and centre.  In many ways I was the good girl and did a lot of music for mother.  But mother was PSz and it was taken a few years after her death to get better hindsight.  She cared always about her own music more than my dead brother or sister or me.

I am much more interested in choral music  and experience than she was. Her piano and her singing was always more important.  To the point that I was a bit slow in  realising I was always in supportive accompanist role, but NOT supported in music roles or honestly in my life (and spent too much energy and life caring for my siblings). She also used music in what came to be dreadfully destructive power and attention seeking games. I was too trusting even til my 40s. In last year when we did recorder and piano, I was more wary.

Now that you have retired you will be able to pursue more music. @Kurra It is wonderful, but ego and pretention can cause great problems wrt to family dynamics, sweeping truths under the carpet, and mental illness and suicide.  Anyway that is my experience. It is best if it is not a very common occurrence. Maybe you did not have things like that complicating your experience of music so it was a simpler matter for you.  

[Catcakes]

What a courageous and amazing insight @Appleblossom.... Thankyou 🌿

[Appleblossom]

Thank you @Catcakes It took a lot of work and pain to be able to write a post like that. Now I am off to the zoo and chamber choir tonight.

I have been so privileged to spend a lot of last 2 years with the community vallues on the this forum.

Pity about the me me me types.  We understand why it happens, but I still pity that so much of society is wrapped up in that attitude.  On the other hand I have been told Grief is a very selfish emotion....

Take care ALL

Not tagging more as I do not want to leave anyone out.

[Catcakes]

Beautiful day to be at the zoo @Appleblossom.. my two youngest work there and they very much enjoyed the Finn’s
On the weekend.
🌿🌸🙉🙈🙊

[Appleblossom]

Wow @Catcakes

You can be proud of kids working in that field. 

Could be compromising of anonymity for me???

Might be walking past you in the street! That is the problem with extraversion.  Gotta go bak to being an introvert.