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Today is Earth Day! Over one billion people in 192 countries are participating…In Copenhagen, Denmark—as well as in six other cities on five continents—the Danish Cultural Institute is organizing its annual CO 2 Green Drive Project in honor of Earth Day. Runners, walkers, bikers, and skaters are using their cities as canvasses to spell “CO 2“ with GPS devices.
In Argentina, volunteers from the Surfrider Foundation are cleaning up the local beaches and planting evergreens and Tamarisk shrubs to help prevent wind and water erosion.
5,000 miles to the northeast, in Ghana, The Rural Education and Development Programme (REDEP) is hosting a three-part event that includes a community clean-up, a “Face of Climate Change” theatre production, and an environmentally-themed essay contest.
A short excerpt from Earth Day Network.
Earth Day is an annual day on which events are held worldwide to increase awareness and appreciation of the Earth‘s natural environment. Earth Day is now coordinated globally by the Earth Day Network,[1] and is celebrated in more than 175 countries every year.[2] In 2009, the United Nations designated April 22 International Mother Earth Day.[3] Earth Day is planned for April 22 in all years at least through 2015.[4]
― Lyrics for the Earth Day Anthem set to Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy”
― Scott Carpenter, astronaut
― Biblical proverb
― Henry Beston, 1935, Herbs and the Earth
― Henry Beston
― Friedrich Nietzsche
― Friedrich Nietzsche
― Wallace Stevens, Letters, p. 73
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden
― William Alexander, A Father’s Book, 1997
― Henry David Thoreau
― Ralph W. Emerson
― Hannah Arendt
― Margaret Mead
― Hubert H. Humphrey
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855, I Celebrate Myself, Line 439
― Anne Sexton
― Margaret Attwood
― N. Scott Momaday
― Archibald MacLeish
― Piero Ferrucci, Inevitable Grace
― Dag Hammarskjold
― Bruce Hagen, New Pledge of Allegiance, 1983
SoundEagle.
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Can you restore the two images to their coherent origins in good time in the jigsaw puzzles below?
However challenging or frustrating any jigsaw puzzle may be to its assembler, it nevertheless does have one definitive, albeit mechanical and predefined, solution. Unifying or underlying the puzzle is a finished scheme, a master blueprint, an intended design, globally recognizable but locally undiscernible, held together by the “interlocking” shapes, or rather, the fitting edges of individual pieces, each of which has been specifically fashioned to “click” into its “allotted” place. Hence, a jigsaw puzzle is like a rigidly defined mould or edifice into which its variedly contoured constituents must fit and work well. Engineered without any leeway for free will, alteration or indeterminacy, each piece is an essential “missing” link, a clue, a catalyst, a solution, and an inextricable part of the whole that is exactly the sum of its parts.
Having amassed hours of human attention, a completed jigsaw puzzle tends to be a precariously poised beauty of low entropy and high fragility. Like a loosely fitted two-dimensional Lego set, it is all too easily dismantled ― as if chaos is the rule, and order the exception ― to provide hours of challenge or frustration to another willing solver.
Winners re-post this completely with their acceptance speech. This could be written or video recorded.
Winners have the privilege of awarding the next awardees! The re-post should include a NEW set of people/blogs worthy of the award; and winners notify them the great news.
It was early Friday morning. SoundEagle woke up and found a new comment posted on the “About” page barely an hour ago:
On the basis that no specific reasons were provided to explain why SoundEagle has been chosen to receive the award, one could perhaps presume that the musical magic of the filmic logic must have worked its charm:
Nothing comes from nothing,
Nothing ever could.
So somewhere in my youth or childhood,
I must have done something good.
Or rather, in keeping more to the spirit of Moment Matters, one could perhaps conclude that SoundEagle must have been awarded for living in the moment, for being noble in writing and capturing the best in life, for being so bold as to remind “us what really mattered ― Savoring the experience of quality time.”
SoundEagle is certainly very grateful for a lot of reasons. And yet, how should or could an Acceptance Speech be reasonably delivered regardless of the specific degrees or details of an awardee’s achievements or contributions? Perhaps one should or could take a moment to fathom the fabric and interconnectedness of life amidst all its trials and tribulations, and throughout its course of evolution bolstered by systemic interdependencies and resiliencies.
There have been the myth and romanticisation of the self-made person succeeding against all odds. The brilliance of certain accomplishment can be so blindingly bright that some people may fail to recognise that many things and conditions have to fall into place for someone to achieve success. Even the greatest heroes, rulers or tyrants need thousands or millions of supporters and followers, plus good climate and sufficient natural resources.
Certain high-flyers, champions or celebrities may utter “If I can do it then anybody can.” On the surface, their statement may seem to suggest that they are modest, democratic, inspiring and down-to-earth individuals who have succeeded through sheer effort and determination, and that they are encouraging others to do so in order to realize their dreams and potentials.
Yet, one cannot help wondering that these successful people are selling an idea or image of success based on the belief that an individual can transcend or overcome any obstacle. They seem to think that everyone has the same chance and is on a level playing field. They have forgotten that many conditions, peoples and infrastructures have to be present within an environment or a society for certain pursuits, successes or achievements to take place.
Put those same high-flyers, champions or celebrities in a more disadvantaged socio-economic or socio-demographic area, or in a third- or fourth-world country saddled with poverty, crimes and other social and cultural issues, the utterance “If I can do it then anybody can” can be readily exposed as vain and vacuous. Also, had they been born into a world in which they have to face poverty, corruption, delinquency, femine, disability, disease, discrimination, slavery, war, anarchy, exploitation, marginalisation, despotism, ostracism, obscurantism and so on, none of them would go very far or have the opportunity to enter their chosen professions.
Hence, let it be repeated that SoundEagle is certainly very grateful for a lot of reasons, including being spared so far by stray bullets and comets, by the deadliest academics and epidemics, as well as by the apocalyptic revolt of our fellow nonhumans and Mother Nature forevermore affected by mounting anthropogenic forces, living, as we are, on borrowed time and resources.
Don’t forget to celebrate with your followers! Tweet your success with hashtag #MomentMatters. Congratulations, winners!
A short wait may be required as SoundCloud loads the graphics and waveforms of SoundEagle‘s compositions.
Music is a fluid affair and multidimensional pursuit — for it crosses boundaries, appealing or wedded to other art forms and popular media, (re)shaped by socio-economic and technological forces, and culturally elevated by their normative values, symbolic statuses, and formal or formulaic (re)presentations across social spheres.
As the titles of SoundEagle‘s original compositions suggest, the various musical pieces purvey restorative elements or expressions of health, spirituality, transpersonal psychology, global consciousness, holism, mysticism, enlightenment, futurism, new age movement, transcendental philosophy, environmental ethics, creative conservation, biocultural heritage, bioacoustic communication and music therapy. These could be interpreted or intended as encapsulating the natural, timeless, peaceful, meditative, relaxing, uplifting, inspirational, reflective or spiritual. They contain both the possibility and desirability of strengthening the relations of tradition and modernity, past and future, nature and culture, humans and animals, spirit and matter, mind and body, with the beneficial roles of holistic therapies, rituals and practices, with the exposures to revealing sights, sounds and stories of special places, and with the engaging applications of art, dance, music, vocalisation, audio-visual media and ceremonial installations to promote individual wellbeing and to preserve environmental integrity, as well as to bridge the acoustic and the electronic domains in all their diversity.
Whilst there are plenty of dramatic moments, certain parts of these compositions are soft, unobtrusive, beautiful, contemplative, evocative, pacifying and ‘easy listening’ — qualities that lend themselves well to restorative purposes, acting as psychic catharses, mental tranquillisers or stress relievers. They signify the contemporary age of musical pharmaceutics and prescriptive soundwave, of aural naturopathy and sound therapy, of gentle destressor and mood enhancer aimed at being at their most cathartic, reverberant and soothing. These features could also accentuate or bolster the fine attention to the cultivation and maintenance of good health, (inner) strength as well as (aesthetic) form and (organic) beauty.
The collective phenomena of genres that are distinctively tailored to the (built or natural) environment, spirituality, wellbeing, health and relaxation, clearly signal people’s awareness of, and willingness to embrace, a holistic and reflexive approach to art, music and health, in aiming to achieve a balance of the physical, social, emotional, psychological, spiritual and environmental dimensions of living. Ultimately, the healing power of these musical genres attempts to bring forth the re-enchantment of the world of sound, the re-integrating of life energy, the regeneration of emotional wellbeing, and the facilitation of spiritual growth. As a whole, SoundEagle‘s art, music and philosophical ethos, as encompassed by these chosen compositions and their subject matters, represent a set of expressive endeavours or inventive conduits with which to explore synergistic potentials for achieving holistic human development, reconnecting constructive attitudes with artistic practices, and re-experiencing music as a path of knowledge, a way of healing, and a flux of creativity.
SoundEagle has teamed with SoundCloud to share with you these musical compositions, chosen for their broad appeal, lyricism and easy-listening quality. Waiting may be required as SoundCloud prepares and loads the graphics and waveforms.
Even when accompanied by some educational purposes, these hybridised forms of recreational activities are out-of-place with the roles and purviews of traditional museums, conservatories, national parks, wildlife sanctuaries and scientific expeditions that seek to understand and preserve artefacts, cultures and places of historical or natural value. There is an ongoing dilemma to the extent that competition, funding shortages, financial cutbacks, changing public tastes and waning cultural authority are not only impelling more museums, conservatories, sanctuaries and parks to adopt and experiment with new media and subjects of exhibition, but also exposing them to the danger of being revamped, co-opted, privatised, or even liquidated for alternative uses, land speculation, higher-value investment and redevelopment.
The explosion of tourism, leisure and entertainment in both the physical world and the virtual environment of online media has resulted in the global sanitization of pleasure and the perpetuation of hedonism, where certain values and ideas about human lives are rooted in or benchmarked against the perspective of youths fascinated by toys, juvenilia and pop culture, which are now instituted as the dominant resources in social and personal development.
Whilst playful participation and leisure activity are important agents of socialization that shape identity, behaviour and outlook, their effectiveness is debilitatingly compromised by the disproportionate growth of high-intensity entertainment that emphasises extreme behaviours and lurid spectacles. The imbalances between entertainment and education, and between self-satisfaction and self-improvement have become much more problematic in the technophilic fantasy overlaying the world of games and amusement — a world conspicuously designed to be as engrossing as possible to those whose individualistic worldview tends to be only as large as self-interest and self-centredness permit, and whose craving for amusement, escapism, technological excitement and adolescent anarchic antics finds few objections and restraints in the anthropocentric staging and distorted reading of landscapes and cultures, let alone of animal characters and natural history.
Anthropomorphic stories and images have become the de facto means for objectifying everything for instant gratification and sensory gluttony, entrenching the human race in a cosmology that both forgets and forbids the recognition of limits and otherness, as well as enslaving peoples in a social atmosphere and collective consciousness that see living things as cartoons, animations, animatronics and bionics, all of which betray the prolonged state of insatiable juvenile gratification.
Old age and senior folks are nowhere to be seen, and are supplanted by ‘teen age’, in which exploitation of, and atrocity to, animals, plants and the environment in the name of art, entertainment and cultural (re)production are so pervasive as to become the dominant social climate with universal acceptance.
There is no natural history, no objective past and present. There is only unnatural future, a future that continues to hold the past and present captive, a future that can neither seek a true reflection of the world nor escape from its own entrapments.
Reality is now available in, defined by and lived via a series of potent, fast acting, total recalls of fun, fantasy, romance, adventure and violence. The end of natural human beings and the spread of simulacra and synthetic beings are complete once the full artificialization of human consciousness is achieved with memory implant, artificial intelligence and virtual reality, in which both humanity and the environment are reduced to figments of the collective imagination.
Being the only “mature specimen” alive, SoundEagle is ironically spared the compulsory “rendition” on account of extreme rarity, and is allowed to be preserved for novelty as well as a “living fossil” possessing cultural and biological uniqueness from a bygone era.
Transhuman, Posthuman, Neurotechnology, Neuroengineering, Neural Networks, Neuroscience, Memory Transplant, Augmentation and Reprogramming.
Submitted as a response to Weekly Writing Challenge: Dystopia!
Till Eternity… is a song composed in an orchestral style or medium by SoundEagle.
The full lyrics is provided below, but only partial music (up to “I reach out for your hand” in Verse 2) is available via the SoundCloud audio player as follows.
The later verses, chorus and bridge can all be sung over the partial music since they are either (nearly) identical to, or different from but syllabically matching, their earlier counterparts.
Alternative lyrics of different styles or subject matters are entirely possible and welcome.
I wonder through the years
In search of someone I miss
Walking by the seashore
I remember your kiss
You have given me all I asked for
Wish you were here
To hold me one more time
Till eternity . . . . . .
You sent me one bouquet
Every time I cried
Time can’t take away
My love for you
All my life I have tried
To be one with you . . . . . .
. . . . . . More than a dream
Till eternity . . . . . .
How much I feel for you
How much I dream of you
If you could be here now . . . . . .
The morning tide has gone
So has my castle of sand
Looking far at the sea
I reach out for your hand
Somewhere beyond reach you’ll wait for me
Wish I were there
To kiss you one more time
Till eternity . . . . . .
You sent me one bouquet
Every time I cried
Time can’t take away
My love for you
All my life I have tried
To be one with you . . . . . .
. . . . . . More than a dream
Till eternity . . . . . .
Where our chances dawn
The sunset lingers on
If you could be here now . . . . . .
One day I’ll join the sea
In search of you just once more
Sail by instinct of love
I’ll give my last encore
You have given me all stars above
Wish you and I
Could hold and kiss once more
Till Eternity . . . . . .
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SOUNDS to soothe the spirit and inspire the SOUL.
life is wasted on the living
This pessimism will not stand, man
Creativity and Incompleteness
Viewing the world through a different lens
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Exploring Creativity
Philosophical adventures in a complex world
A blog by the Centre for Research Ethics & Bioethics (CRB) at Uppsala University, Sweden
Gibbon Hermit ( Einsiedler )
An online gallery of art that has been tossed to the wayside
Poetic Rantings from a Ratbag Reverend
A Cosmology of Sense, Essence & Existence
The Edgy Side of Speech Pathology; sharp, profane, but never dull
A blog of theology, philosophy, writing, linguistics, personalism, poetry, criticism, sociology, and whatever else crosses my mind.
Thoughts Shared
Stimulate public interest, sustain public awareness
Connecting Asia Pacific users in the Scientific, Technical, Medical and Scholarly (STMS) field
Blogs on News Science Health Hinduism, Philosophy Religion Lifestyle, India,
exploring music in the human experience
Evolving your credulity, bite by bite.™
Philosophic Thought
Perpetuating Human Progression
Imagining Two Temporal Dimensions
The fantastic world of fractal art and other stuff
Exploring Human Potential
Stuff and things.
Smile! It actually matters.
Night Thoughts of a Literary Agent
Helping you learn more and do more with WordPress
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