On this day six years ago, I dropped in on my former bandmates. I had played with them almost every Saturday morning for twenty years before moving to Tacoma. They were playing Cannonball Adderley’s “Exodus.” Nice tune, and hard!
Listening to them wrestle with Exodus helped me realize that I can play hard tunes even when I think I can’t. We can do more than we think we’re capable of.
That’s a lesson I learned again in 2020!
I caught myself singing along with Earth, Wind, and Fire on #JazzChurch 40 today. All is forgiven because you won’t actually hear me sing!
Brazilian Rhyme - #JazzChurch Style from Bill Berry on Vimeo.
I love Joshua, listening to and playing it. Just not at this tempo, ya dig!?
#jazzchurch 40 – Sunday, January 31, 2021 – featured music by the SFJAZZ Collective, Archie Shepp & Jason Moran, Charles Lloyd, Earth, Wind & Fire, and John Abercrombie, among others:
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There’s beauty all around us!
What have you noticed?
I apparently thought this was funny five years ago…
I had some time before my bass lesson yesterday (teacher talked me out of throwing in the towel!) and went to Starbucks. I was sitting next to a couple of ladies who were having a meeting about upcoming children’s dance recitals. My ears perked up when they started talking about Donald Trump. They seemed to think he’s a breath of fresh air, but one of them also said if he’s elected she’s moving to Canada.
Me? Staying in the great PNW to avoid the zika virus (in case I get pregnant). Spending more time in the shed (trying to prove my bass teacher right). Praying for a little sanity (and more good wine).
The country is more divided than any time since the civil war and I don’t see anything on the horizon that’ll bring us together. Maybe a truly bad president to go along with our truly bad congress. Maybe that’ll motivate millennials to take control of their country?
ymmv…
etc., etc., blah. blah. blah., inter alia.
“When you say something unkind, when you do something in retaliation, your anger increases. You make the other person suffer, and they try hard to say or do something back to make you suffer, and get relief from their suffering. That is how conflict escalates.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh, Taming the Tiger Within
aka, collusion…
Now we could use a way to communicate with the _hard of understanding_…
“If ifs and buts were candycanes and nuts, we’d all have a hard rock candy Christmas.” – Said Who
Bill E. Bob’s Lush Life
No. Comment.
I received my first dose of COVID-19 vaccine this morning, courtesy of the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department, their friendly staff, and their well-organized queueing operation. I’m feeling fortunate and also recognizing this is a challenging logistical problem to solve.
This Morning, 1/26/2021. Sometimes The Mountain is not the main story! :-)
10/27/2018. Sometimes The Mountain is not the main story! :-)
“It’s easier to get people to do what you want them to do if you don’t care whether they do what you want them to do.”
– Zen Master Bill E. Bob
I’ve watched Soul two times all the way through and have skipped through another three or four times looking for clues. I’m always seeing something I didn’t see before and also coming away with questions. I think it’s a deep, deep movie!
I’m still struggling with the difference between purpose and spark. What did that seed mean? What IS soul??? And… And also… And?
Rewatching Soul is like analyzing a poem. Last night this bit registered for the first time:
Joe: By the way, why do you sound like a middle-aged white lady?
22: I don’t. This is all an illusion.
Joe: Huh?
22: This whole place is a hypothetical._
A hypothetical??? That’s deep! Is Joe (or his soul) really zipping around the universe, or is he just having a conversation with himself?
#jazzchurch 39 – Sunday, January 24, 2021 – featured music by Miles Davis, Bobby Hutcherson, Branford Marsalis, Return to Forever, Indra Rios-Moore, Johnny Nash, and Gil Scott-Heron, among others shown below:
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Okay, this is strange! Why, oh why, do certain songs pop up into my head unannounced and without premeditation?
I always begin each daily journal entry with the date and a song title, usually the first, that’s reverberating in my head that morning. Today’s song is “1-2-3” by Len Barry. No idea why that came up. Haven’t heard it in, probably, decades!
I just sat down to write in my journal. I wrote today’s date as follows: “01-23.” Omigod!!! Somebody somewhere must be tryna tell me sumpin’! Or maybe a message from my subconscious, my brain noticing and acting on something before bringing it to my attention?
So my #JournalEntry, so far, is “01-23 – 1-2-3!” That’s deep!!!
“When you say something unkind, when you do something in retaliation, your anger increases. You make the other person suffer, and they try hard to say or do something back to make you suffer, and get relief from their suffering. That is how conflict escalates.” – Thich Nhat Hanh, Taming the Tiger Within
aka, #collusion #ideasfor2020
“Everybody reading this knows the downside of procrastination. But it has an upside as well. Sometimes it’s not about taking action, but having time to think.
“And procrastination produces a lot of the latter.”
It may look like I’m procrastinating, but I’m actually thinking! And it occurs to me that I get paid to think!!! :-)
He gone. Hope he stay gone!
A little over a half hour ago, 1/21/21 21:21:21 + 21stCentury!
Exhale…
So this happened (1/21/2019).
I’m preparing to facilitate another Outward Mindset workshop and have spent some time over the past couple of weeks meeting with and getting to know some of the participants. In the process, I’ve run into several folks who have been in earlier workshops, and that’s led to some really nice conversations.
I was on the elevator going up to one of my 1on1 meetings when two women got on. They said hello. I said hello. Then one of them said, “you don’t remember us, do you?” The other woman said, “we were in one of your workshops!” I asked for their names and apologized with an explanation. Their response: “It’s good that you don’t remember us because there have been so many people taking the class!”
They loved the class and are happy it’s getting some traction.
howcoolisthat?