Hope everyone is having a good week. I took a little break from the writing. Been crazy busy the last couple weeks. This week I introduce some musings of my own.
PERSPECTIVE
I've come to believe that most of the problems in the world today could be solved with perspective. Now, I'm not talking about a perspective where everyone sees their environment as it relates to chamber music. I may be optimistic, but I'm not nuts. While I love what we do, I recognize that it is a small niche in the grand scheme of things. No, the perspective I'm thinking of is where everyone is always aware how truly vast the universe is.
The fact that the hunk of rock that we are on called Earth is the only hunk of rock we have at our disposal should make some people think a little before they act. It appalls me to no end at how short-sighted us humans can be. "Let's toss junk in the water. Nature will fix it." "Let's go to war, because war always solves problems." "Let's spend money on the latest gadget and gizmo. We'll just throw away our old gadget we bought 3 years ago and have it join millions of other gadgets in landfill."
The funny thing about perspective though, is that we all have at least one. And even if we all used them from time to time, none of our perspectives are going to agree most of the time. That's why I say that we focus on just the "vast universe" one. We may not get anything done and just lie down in despair. However, we'll definitely kill less and ruin our planet more slowly. Just a thought.
Organization Profile
- QUADRE - The Voice of Four Horns
- Mountain View, CA, United States
- QUADRE is a group of four solo French horn artists that provide concert presentations, interactive educational outreach, lectures and workshops each season. Since 1998, the ensemble’s mission is to make new music accessible, engaging and enjoyable for their audiences.
2 comments:
Daniel,
You missed your opportunity to connect "polygamy" to Quadre. One could say that four horns in concert, a family, in our case, a very public marriage, screams polygamist overtones, homosexual harmonies, and incestuous dynamics.
Permanent member, Nathan Pawelek
You are so correct in your "Perspective" article. We're really just ants in the universe and the sooner we realize our personal insignificance in the grand scheme of things and let our overpowering egos go, the better off the world....one would hope. Of course, that's probably how Muslim extremists get people to blow themselves and others up for the greater glory of "God".
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