singers songwriters and poets, past and present, struggling with the human condition and striving to improve it or at least make it more bearable to endure.
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Although I've been playing piano since I was eight years old, I didn't start to play with interest till I was fifteen. Since then I've been playing mostly by ear and did develop some improvisation and accompaniment skills through the years of listening and playing popular music. Having experimented with two bands during my teenage years I was not ready to perform solo publicly. I attempted some piano-bar solo in 1985 only as a accompanist playing piano lounge songs instrumentals. My artistic awakening has taken some time. Since my second awakening in 1989, at the age of 38, I've discovered my until-then dormant talents at sketching still lifes and portraits, shell mobiles construction, tubular bells chimes, sculpting with alabaster, sandstone, and soapstone, firestone, and chirt. I also spent a few years doing some hand weaving of 'voyageur ceintures flechees'. And mostly close to my heart is my music. As an older middle-aged adult I've rediscovered my piano chops, for my 'church' congregations. This was the catalyst which led me to start composing, and singing since 2002. I now have six years of compositions and melodies which I wish to share with the world.
Does one really see oneself as others do? With what pretentions and delusions do we view ourselves? Does it have any proximity to how others see us? I may perceive my identity as mostly wrapped up with what I do, ie: as a massage therapist, as a job, to pay the bills, to be of service.
I also may perceive myself as an artist, musician, with all its creative individual and collective consciousnesses which make it up.
I may be the faithful, dutiful, responsible husband which I am to my wife.
I may also be the, sometimes wise, sometimes foolish, person who attempts to give advice to friends and family, without knowing when or how those seeds will mature. Its interesting that I wrote the song" My spirit journey" and in that song talk about 'what kind of seed do I want to be'. Because then, I fell upon a book "Understanding our Mind", by Thich Nhat Hanh, a celebrated Zen Master, wherein the main focus is 'planting and harvesting seeds within us which are wholesome'. It's then that I realized that I am transforming my future by transforming the seeds which make up my 'store consciousness'.
Both transparent and an enigma. I am both here and I am not. Although I live in the present I am pushed forward by my past actions and drawn forward by my desires. I am libra, balance, lover of numbers and Tarot. Musically there is an infinity within my creativity and an unknown in its structure. I am poet and love words and meanings. I am artist and love creating that which doesn't exist. I am magician and transform my nature and that of others who seek me for healing. I am healer, physical and spiritual, with touch and without. I am energy travelling within this body until I shed its mortal coil and wander off to some other domain to continue this journey. From the unknown into the unknown, from distance and time and space forgotten and yet remembered.
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You are the Fool card. The Fool fearlessly begins the journey into the unknown. To do this, he does not regard the world he knows as firm and fixed. He has a seemingly reckless disregard for obstacles. In the Ryder-Waite deck, he is seen stepping off a cliff with his gaze on the sky, and a rainbow is there to catch him. In order to explore and expand, one must disregard convention and conformity. Those in the throes of convention look at the unconventional, non-conformist personality and think What a fool. They lack the point of view to understand The Fool's actions. But The Fool has roots in tradition as one who is closest to the spirit world. In many tribal cultures, those born with strange and unusual character traits were held in awe. Shamans were people who could see visions and go on journeys that we now label hallucinations and schizophrenia. Those with physical differences had experience and knowledge that the average person could not understand. The Fool is God. The number of the card is zero, which when drawn is a perfect circle. This circle represents both emptiness and infinity. The Fool is not shackled by mountains and valleys or by his physical body. He does not accept the appearance of cliff and air as being distinct or real. Image from: Mary DeLave http://www.marydelave.com/ Take this quiz!
You are a True Alternative! Labels do not suit you well, particularly as you tend to strike your own path and to grow purely via experience. No armchair quarterbacking for you! Originality and creation are your specialities, and sometimes you can even articulate what the hell just happened. Someday you may find yourself drawing the maps for other people... lots of other people.
Hey Roger I've just had time to look at your photo's and man your gifted. I didn't really realize how gifted you were. Keep up the good work and God bless you.
Thanks for the connection Roger-really good piano playing-be blessed-VIC-STRUCK NORTH BEATS-p.s. check my main page & add that-STRUCK NORTH-this is where i sing & write-thanks again!!!
