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Listening to the sound of rain soothes my soul.
The rain at night in the city gives a somewhat sad impression. In such a case, why don't you listen to the sound of rain quietly?
Healing by rain sound and ambient is delivered.
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The 8 Senses
The Autistic Teacher
To clear up some common misconceptions:
Weird is good. Strange is bad.
Smart is how much you know, intelligent is what you do with it.
Sympathy is having been there; empathy is feeling it without having been there; apathy is not feeling at all.
Bravery is choosing not to be afraid, courage is being afraid and doing it anyway.
This Monday is the upcoming Monday; next Monday is the one after that.
Hearing is sound passing into your ear. Listening is thinking about what the sound means.
Having good hearing sucks when you're in an old house that creaks all the time. Having good hearing sucks doubly when you're in an old house that never creaks at all, and then you start hearing noises all around you. And it REALLY doesn't help when the cats perk up and look in the direction of the noise either.
"Nobody knows about this is a hidden family."
She cherished her secret cousin.
An important observation when reading the Bible is that whenever any phrase is repeated, PAY ATTENTION, because what was said more than once ought not to be ignored!
Jesus repeats this phrase in today’s scripture SEVENTEEN TIMES, so do you think he is making a point! Absolutely! But are people listening?!? But he also went on to say and warn that…
“(people still) refuse to LISTEN; They cover their eyes. They cannot see or hear or understand. If they could, they would turn to me, and I would heal them.” Matthew 13:15
Friend, the Bible and the words of Christ are very clear and open to everyone!
Will you open your heart, eyes and EARS to what He has to say?
God Bless Your Day Jesus Loves You
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Deaf at the Piano
Is it possible to play the piano when you're deaf? I mean with something like satisfaction and accomplishment. The question is rhetorical, in part, because I'm thinking at the moment about my own experience on two occasions where I performed gigs that limited my ability to hear. Well, "limited" is perhaps too limited a word. I was essentially incapable in the circumstances of hearing myself. On both occasions I was not playing a "real", or acoustic, piano but rather one with a direct connection to an amplifier. And other instruments, in combination with the venue, the crowd, inadequate monitoring, etc, added to my inability to hear myself play.
A couple of things. First, I'm not primarily thinking about a situation where a deaf person sits at a piano, a real piano, and starts pressing the keys. In this situation acoustical vibrations would transfer through the soundboard, the frame, the keys and so forth to the person's fingertips and there would be some kind of feedback, I guess, depending on the sensitivity of the player. Second, even if we're not talking about total deafness, in the sense that you cannot hear yourself at all — zero realtime feedback — but rather in the sense that your ability to hear the sound you're making is significantly reduced, say 70+%, what effect that has on the possibility of playing. A relative deafness, if you will.
OK. So. Here's my experience.
Playing the piano, one is trained on a number of levels. There is a kinetic component, in which muscle memory combines with tactility to move the limbs and digits through space and time to strike keys. This is the gymnastics element of piano playing, hurtling through the air to stick the landing and score the perfect 10. (Ouch! Wrong note.) And of course there is the component that tells us whether we are playing what we want to be playing: the mind-bone connected to the ear-bone connected to the heart-bone. These two components, broadly speaking, come together to form the piano player we are at any given moment.
So if we remove one of these components, the latter — or more precisely if we interfere with the ear-part of the chain on that latter component — what is the result? After all, we still have the mind working, in its aural capacity I mean, not just the kinetic. We still have the heartsoul working. What effect does a compromised ear have? For me, the result has been fascinating and annoying. Musica interruptus. I find that the ear has an enormous, an essential, influence upon the kinetic element. I'm not a robot, I guess this shouldn't be a revelation. But, again for me, without the ear to guide my thinking, I find that my physical technique breaks down. Yes I'm still able to move through spacetime in such a way that I'm going to the right places, more or less, on the keyboard. But without satisfaction, without feedback, without that sense of rightness that, micromoment to micromoment, says Yes, proceed, you're doing the right thing, it all sounds great.
A different player may deal with all this differently. Their technique may well be much more independent, advanced, and able to handle the severe limitation of the auditory component. But this all led me to think what it might be for an ordinary, well-eared piano player to at some point during their career go deaf. (Beethoven, poor devil...) How would it affect their technique? (I think I already know how it would affect their satisfaction, in large part.) Would a listener be forced to note a sea change in ability?
Some sketches of last night's Jan 6 hearings from my Twitch stream. Btw Liz Cheney still sucks. ✊ https://www.instagram.com/p/CgUvmSNu7qA/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
If you try talking to me face-to-face I'll ask you to repeat yourself six times, but I can hear people talking about me from behind six closed doors.