"While I was fearing..."

in considering the time that remains to us humans 

to be on this planet (even elon musk will die here)

it occurred to me that as a species we humans can create

things which in no way enhance our ability to survive.

I have been reading and listening  a lot about quantum

mechanics...but I still pretty much wallow in the mundane

world of mechanical physics...the possibilities of possibility

are difficult to realize....but the Planck scale somehow seems

comforting, knowing that when you get right down to it, we

make our own relevancies. what is important?...and how important

is it

so in considering this eternal question I think perhaps once the

rudiments of life are obtained music and the "arts" have relevance.

I read about cave paintings and listen to music of the aboriginals across

the globe and realize that something about engaging in these behaviors

of art and music has had a profound effect on human existence..something

which goes beyond "getting and begetting". 

i recently mentioned a songwriter who describes himself

as a "song and dance man"...Bob Dylan.. and I said his lyrics

are gibberish...some but not all are unintelligible to me. 

"Don't Think Twice" is very intelligible to me and actually

is important and relevant to me. 

Also he wrote a song,  the style and genre of which are what

came to recognized as his forte. The PROTEST song.

The song "Oxford Town" which I heard on an "Oxford

Review" CD from some years ago is appropriate to current

events. I have never heard him sing it anywhere else.

I would also like to recommend a particular tune by a particular

trumpet player whom I had the privilege to hear play at the New

Orleans Jazz museum. All of the concerts are supposed to be recorded

on a video system which is permanently installed in the concert hall

but I do not find the concert for Thursday, August 23, 2018 which

I believe was the day that I heard Mark Braud play "Palm Sunday" from

his "Living the Tradition" album. Mr. Braud is indeed living the tradition

as he is a third generation jazz musician and his family were formative

in the history of jazz music. He said he would like someday for some

of his music to be considered to be iconic as his relatives music is. After

hearing him play "Palm Sunday" I was compelled to relate to him that

I felt that I had just heard a tune which was "iconic" and I felt like I had

witnessed history being made....I could not find this tune played by Mr.

Braud  on the Jazz museum site or YouTube but perhaps it may appear soon.

so despite social unrest and the plague which unfortunately have always

been with us music and art and natural beauty are also...

"While I was fearing it, it came

But came with less of fear

Because that fearing it so long

Had almost made it dear." Emily Dickinson