Archive for the tag 'common ground'

music

lead me on, let me stand

“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.” Martin Luther King
Mind, spirit, action. Did any 20th century thinker see as clearly as Dr. Martin Luther King how our humanity and future depended so much on all three?
Recently I read an unattributed comment that Dr. King considered music to be the [...]

music, thought

out of our constrictions

Unfortunately, we’re not one nation under a groove, but it doesn’t hurt to keep trying. If dancing gives you the slap you need, here you go:

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But I think Mo’ hits the mood for me better today. Good for me to be reminded that at [...]

music

la, la, la, la in the moonlight

I had an epiphany one night while journeying in a foreign land. A friend and I were driving aimlessly in an old jeep, on a bumpy dirt road with no signs for miles. Every time we asked directions some dude in a turban would point aimlessly and then we’d ask another dude in a turban [...]