It’s amazing how an infant with no concept of using a toilet instead of peeing on himself, no concept of “you shouldn’t put that dirty thing in your mouth” and very little concept of danger, navigating stairs, etiquette, personal property and religion has such a pure and beautiful concept of music.
The boy has been a musician for almost his whole life.
He’s been whacking the piano keys for months. Jr. moves his arm in rhythm to a beat and now even does a little bouncy dance when he’s so inclined as a toy plays a song. Since before he could crawl or roll over, he has perked up when music is playing. He smacks his hands or a spoon against something because it makes an interesting noise.
He organizes sounds and silences for cultivation for aesthetic purposes, as Dr. Linton would say.
Is Jr. going to discuss the theory of music with complicated words and definitions? No. Will he make noise for no other reason than it being beautiful? Yes, indeed.
But now, now it’s on. The boy can sing “Old McDonald.” No, not with words; it’s still in his “di-di” language and humming. But you know it when you hear it. We’re working on some Strauss next—“The Blue Danube.” Jr. takes the high parts. I’ve been listening to music my whole life and there truly aren’t many artists I’d rather listen to more than my one-year-old son.
I’ve been thinking of converting anyway, and now that there will be an Islamic Center in my backyard, it will make it all the easier.
Not really, but I can still accept this mega mosque in our conservative Southern U.S. town a little easier than one at Ground Zero in New York.
That’s just wrong. Fundamentally.
Even discussion of it is a slap in the face to the families who lost anyone in the name of Allah that day nine years ago.
It’s interesting that locally, a lot of white college students stand up for the Muslims, though the same liberals who say they support religious freedom in the U.S. and support the Constitution protest the oppressive practices of Muslims in the Middle East, stoning of homosexuals and making females wear veils and such.
I’m not a religious scholar, but I imagine the hand-chopping radical jihadist Muslims are a vast minority versus more peaceful liberal or mainstream Muslim people, just as there are small groups of Christians giving the whole religion a bad image (Fred Phelps).
But if you take that stuff called Sharia law literally, there’s no way it is remotely within the laws of the U.S.
Discuss.
And while there was some shouting and name calling at the recent demonstrations in downtown Murfreesboro, the fact that a thousand people came to the Square to protect what they consider the American way of life is encouraging.
