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Wonderful story. Thanks for sharing and inspiring.
The Unwanted Portrait
By John Kennerdell Handing out the occasional print, it seems to me, is one small thing we photographers can do in return for our intrusions into the lives of our subjects. It's also its own reward, at least in the corner of the world where I live. Most people hereabouts in rural Southeast As...
well spoken. I had this conversation with my now wife after I came back from a deployment to Afghanistan as a civilian. As it turns out, I have not deployed to a combat zone since, but I have deployed for disaster responses. We're expecting our first son soon, and we have to think through this again.
TWO WORLDS
Name: 1SGT (retired) Troy Steward Posting date: 9/9/10 Returned from: Afghanistan Milblog: Keeping An Eye on Afghanistan Prologue: I kind of wandered into this blog posting as I wrote it. I have not written like this since I was last here in 2007. It is what it is. I am stuck in Bagram for...
Welcome home soldier. Don't wait too long before taking plans off hold (I got engaged about a month of my return :-) )
ONE STEP CLOSER TO HOME
ONE STEP CLOSER TO HOME Name: Six Foot Skinny Posting date: 3/1/10 Returning from: Iraq Hometown: Minneapolis, MN Milblog: Lost in the Desert White lights blink and go dark, replaced immediately by red ones. Engine noises increase in pitch and volume. The aircraft lurches forwards as it slips it...
@Doug When you know that you will be entering chaos (e.g. that is what you do) planning means having a way to take in the chaos and make some sense of it, and to respond and work with it. Not planning has a way of extending the period of chaos, or magnifying its effects on you. Sometimes this has very bad effects.
@Walt It is not changes in tempo, structure per se that cause it. There are times in the piece when there were multiple themes/voices going on at once, one of which was the repeating theme. To me, the multiple voices sounded like they were in tension (not quite conflict) while the underlying theme was almost an anchor that I could grab onto and take in everything else around it.
Steadyness in chaos - Louis Luangkesorn
I was listening to Danielpour's Concerto for Orchestra and noticing the recurring theme as it passed from part to part, popping up in a variety of contexts. Sometimes when the overall tone was almost melodious and sometimes when it was present in the midst of conflict and cacophony. But always ...
Oh, I love this idea! Now to look at my schedule to see if I can make it to one of these.
First impressions from the PSO Book Club - Yonca Karakilic
A few days before the season opening at the Pittsburgh Symphony, we held the first meeting of our Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Book Club at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh in Oakland. First, a few words about the book club. Over the summer, we invited bookworms in the orchestra to nominate...
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