One of my favorite songwriters and musical expressionists in her song, South London forever sings this: “And we're just children wanting children of our ownI want a space to watch things growBut did I dream too big?Do I have to let it go?What if one day there is no such thing as snow?Oh God, what …
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I knew my life was going to be steeped in creativity and artistry from a very early age; as early as five years old to be exact. I can never forget how moving it was to hear Celine Dion’s “My heart will go on.” Yes yes. I was a softie like that from then and …
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Most of the suffering I experience as a person in some way or form is rooted in having to endure the loneliness of being misunderstood; not because I was inarticulate or incoherent in the presentation of ideas, but because almost all my expression is steeped in cross cultural references stretched over centuries, relating to Charles …
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I have reached a sad point in life where live music isn’t as exciting to observe as it was when I was much younger. There is a lack of hunger and desperation to “do something different” for most of the acts I encounter. It is the same covers, performed over the same rat-a-tat tempo, three …
The word Renaissance denotes a revival of, or renewed interest in something. We know of the redefining Renaissance period in Europe with the revival of art and literature under the influences of the classical models of the 14th to 16th Century. While that word renaissance would usually be used to refer to a time in …
“What am I in the eyes of most people — a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person — somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest of the low. All right, then — even if that were absolutely true, then I should one day like to …
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"The truth is lived before it is understood. It must be fought for, tested, and appropriated. Truth is the way... Anyone will easily understand it if he just gives himself to it." SOREN KIERKEGAARD For so long, I have told myself and preached this gospel; my art was good enough for me and that’s all …
"-unless I am myself, I am nobody" VIRGINIA WOOLF There is such a thing as the Ganzfeld effect. Ganzfeld is a German world that means “complete field.” It is a perceptual deprivation that is caused by exposure to an unstructured, uniform stimulation field. Usually, the result of this exposure is “seeing black”- an apparent sense of …
""Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life." Ludwig van Beethoven I've always had this theory; that while it is common and heard of to hear that life exists in "seasons" and "times" constituting the "ups" and "downs" and the plateauing in there somewhere, my experience of all those things has always …
"What I have learned from myself is that I don’t have to be anybody else. Myself is good enough." LUPITA NYONG’O I have in the past couple years of my life and journey been registering and perceiving notions I was taught, either deliberately or experientially to exhaustively dismiss with respect to being me; a girl, …
