Mar
I have a presence all over the internet. I have sites and blogs related to various aspects of my life. But they’re fairly compartmentalized–family, work, music, etc. But I really wanted something that represented more of the totality of me. I hope that this is it. About the title: I was looking for a title that was abstract yet significant. I decided to go to John Cage for inspiration and I began paging randomly through Silence, a collection of his lectures and writings, looking for a phrase to jump out. Being who I am, my left brain kept rejecting the phrases I was finding. Once I realized this and let go, I came to rest on page 117 and his Lecture on Nothing:
I begin to hear the old sounds — the ones I had thought worn out, worn out by intellectualization– I begin to hear the old sounds though they are not worn out . They are just as audible as the new sounds. Thinking had worn them out . And if one stops thinking about them, suddenly they are fresh and new. "If you think you are a ghost you will become a ghost ." Thinking the sounds worn out wore them out .
It seems apropos of my life and my thinking. It’s about sound and silence, thinking and stillness. It’s about reassessing the familiar and finding it strange and new in the now. That’s kind of heady and I’m sure my writings here will contain some of that. But there will also be plenty of nonsense and mundanity.
There will also be posts copied from my other blogs occasionally if I feel they fit here.
