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ljgeoffI just got out of a great lecture in my theater class.
Paraphrased from my professor, Dr. Shelley Russell:
"The ancient Greeks would get together for a celebration of their society. Thousands and thousands would gather, and they would watch theater. Before the plays would begin, a priest would stand at the alter and sacrifice a young, white goat. The word "tragedy" means "goat song." The priest would stretch the neck of the goat across the alter, turning its head so that it could see the knife and they could look into each other's eyes.
The people understood that all of human existence was sung in that mournful cry of the goat; we are born to die, we are all the goat. But there's more to it than that. We are the goat ... and we are the priest. We are the knife."
"the readiness is all: since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is't to leave betimes?"
Hamlet, act V, scene II
On the way to school this morning, I was talking to Kyle, "Choices, it's all about choices. I show the world what kind of person I am through the choices that I make. But... what's more important ... I show myself who I am, I choose what kind of person I'm going to be. No one else has that power. I choose.
You choose; you are the one who gets to choose who you are."
Paraphrased from my professor, Dr. Shelley Russell:
"The ancient Greeks would get together for a celebration of their society. Thousands and thousands would gather, and they would watch theater. Before the plays would begin, a priest would stand at the alter and sacrifice a young, white goat. The word "tragedy" means "goat song." The priest would stretch the neck of the goat across the alter, turning its head so that it could see the knife and they could look into each other's eyes.
The people understood that all of human existence was sung in that mournful cry of the goat; we are born to die, we are all the goat. But there's more to it than that. We are the goat ... and we are the priest. We are the knife."
"the readiness is all: since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is't to leave betimes?"
Hamlet, act V, scene II
On the way to school this morning, I was talking to Kyle, "Choices, it's all about choices. I show the world what kind of person I am through the choices that I make. But... what's more important ... I show myself who I am, I choose what kind of person I'm going to be. No one else has that power. I choose.
You choose; you are the one who gets to choose who you are."
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Mouth Music
Date: 2008-03-12 06:02 pm (UTC)The album is Mo-Di, and the song is called Milking the Cow:
Spirit moving, living, breathing
Healing motion, feeling devotion
Under the desert sun
Two hearts beat as one
Rhythm of the living drum
Milking the cow
Pray for the rain to come
Blessings from the one
Milking the cow
Behold the shifting sand
The riches of our land
Life flows through our hands
Milking the cow
Beneath the darkened sky
Hear the spirit cry
To milk the cow is to praise the hand of God that moves before us
To feed the cow is to worship the spirit that breathes within us
To kill the cow is to accept the darkness deep within us
To spurn the cow is to spurn the gift of God that gives us life
Milk the cow and feel the rhythm that beats inside us
Touch the cow and feel the spirit that moves within us
Kill the cow and feel the sorrow that lies before us
In blood we are born, blood of the cow redeems us
Re: Mouth Music
Date: 2008-03-12 06:08 pm (UTC)ahh. *kiss*