NOVEMBER 6—“MAD HATTER DAY
IN 1996, RUSSEL SHERMAN PUBLISHED “Piano Pieces.” a compilation of essays about teaching and performing. “notes may be missed but not casually flubbed. Phrases may be askew but not aimlessly drifting. Sonorities may be brazen but not barren. The player has to say something, with verve and style.”
I THINK musical performances should be free and should invite danger, should tell a story, should court the ‘madness of art,’ should in every way reveal the characteristics and visions of the composers.”
RUSSELL SHERMAN obit nytimes Oct. 5, 2023
IF YOU WANT TO AWAKEN ALL OF HUMANITY, then awaken all of yourself. If you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is dark and negative in yourself. Truly the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation. LAO TZU
I EXPECT TO PASS through life but once. If therefore there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again. WILLIAM PENN
THE further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it. GEORGE ORWELL
JOSEPH LOWERY 1921-2019 CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER MLK’S RIGHT HAND. A MINISTER WHO STOOD UP TO BIGOTRY & ALMOST KILLED SEVERAL TIMES.
IT’S INTERESTING TO ME that killing damages the image of God when it’s done by a person, but it doesn’t damage it when it’s done by the state.
HELP US work for that day when black will not be asked to get back, when brown can stick around; when yellow will be mellow; when the red man can get ahead, man; and when white will embrace what it right.
EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED AND NOTHING HAS CHANGED.
YOU GOTSTA LOVE ALL GOD’S CHILDREN.
IT’S IRONIC THAT THE BIBLE BELT IS THE KILLING BELT — Texas, Florida, Alabama, Virginia and so forth, Georgia. Chief executioners.
IF you don’t know where you come from, then you won’t know when you’er being taken back.
MARSHALL ROSENBERG 1934-2015 “Nonviolent Communication”. “Speak Peace in a World of Conflict”
EVERY CRITICISM, JUDGEMENT, DIAGNOSIS AND EXPRESSION OF ANGER IS THE TRAGIC EXPRESSION OF AN UNMET NEED.
YOUR PRESENCE IS THE MOST PRECIOUS GIFT you can give to another human being.
INSTEAD of playing the game “Making Life Wonderful”, we often play the game called “Who’s right”. Do you know that game? It’s a game where everybody loses.
EMPATHY is a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing. Empathy calls upon us to empty our mind and listen to others with our whole being. Empathy lies in our ability to be present without opinion.
WE ARE NEVER angry because of what others say or do. It is our thinking that makes us angry.
DEPRESSION IS THE REWARD WE GET FOR BEING ‘GOOD’.
YOU DON’T have to be brilliant. It’s enough to become progressively less stupid.
MOST OF US grew up speaking a language that encourages us to label, compare, demand and pronounce judgments rather than to be aware of what we are feeling and needing.
ALL VIOLENCE is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain drives from other people and consequently those people deserve to be punished.
PEOPLE HEAL from their pain when they have an authentic connection with another human being.
NONVIOLENT COMMUNICATION is a way of keeping our consciousness tuned in moment by moment to that beauty within ourselves and others, and not saying anything that we think might in any way tarnish people’s consciousness of their own beauty.
ANALYSES of others are actually expressions of our own needs and values.
AT THE CORE OF ALL ANGER IS A NEED THAT IS NOT BEING FULFILLED.
WHEN YOU NEED EMPATHY, YOU CANNOT GIVE EMPATHY.
EMPATHY BEFORE EDUCATION.
WITH EVERY CHOICE you make, be conscious of what need it serves.
WE are responsible for what we hear other people say and for how we act.
REGARDLESS of our many differences, we all have the same needs. what differs is the strategy for fulfilling these needs.