Thanks, Stew. Sounds like quite a concert! I appreciate how you describe the music and musicians with such knowledge.
Do you find, as I do, that the acute awareness of what's off the rails in this country is also driving attention toward every possible example of kindness, joy, and voisinages? Or, even better, that it's engendering even more of these? Maybe not enough to counter the damage of all that's wrong, but definitely a source of goodness.
Yes, an incredible concert. I have heard them live many times over the years. They are also very kind and generous people.
And yes, a source of goodness. Sure there is plenty of griping and ranting, even on Substack, but examples of even small acts of generosity, patience, forgiveness, etc., I feel they have an outsized influence. On my world for sure, and I hope for the greater world as well. I really appreciate the way you are listening for these patterns.
I think about this, from the Daily Stoic website:
“Whatever anyone does or says, for my part I’m bound to the good,” Marcus Aurelius writes in Meditations. “I must be what I am and show my true colors.’” Whatever happens in life, in world events, in politics, our job is our job, our duty is our duty. How can anything stop you, Marcus asks elsewhere in his Meditations: how does this stop you from acting with courage, discipline, justice and wisdom? In fact, it may well be that these [difficult times] present you with an incredible—and urgent and critical—opportunity to act with those virtues.
Thanks, Stew. Sounds like quite a concert! I appreciate how you describe the music and musicians with such knowledge.
Do you find, as I do, that the acute awareness of what's off the rails in this country is also driving attention toward every possible example of kindness, joy, and voisinages? Or, even better, that it's engendering even more of these? Maybe not enough to counter the damage of all that's wrong, but definitely a source of goodness.
Yes, an incredible concert. I have heard them live many times over the years. They are also very kind and generous people.
And yes, a source of goodness. Sure there is plenty of griping and ranting, even on Substack, but examples of even small acts of generosity, patience, forgiveness, etc., I feel they have an outsized influence. On my world for sure, and I hope for the greater world as well. I really appreciate the way you are listening for these patterns.
I think about this, from the Daily Stoic website:
“Whatever anyone does or says, for my part I’m bound to the good,” Marcus Aurelius writes in Meditations. “I must be what I am and show my true colors.’” Whatever happens in life, in world events, in politics, our job is our job, our duty is our duty. How can anything stop you, Marcus asks elsewhere in his Meditations: how does this stop you from acting with courage, discipline, justice and wisdom? In fact, it may well be that these [difficult times] present you with an incredible—and urgent and critical—opportunity to act with those virtues.
Sorry. I kinda went on a little there!