So just what IS the vision of those who deliver our health services these days? Is this the message they’re giving us…….? Listen carefully…….
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Compliance…the vision of modern medicine?
Posted in from the consulting room, health, music, video on September 10, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Stand in awe
Posted in from the music room, music, video on March 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
OK, I know posting music is a bit of a gamble, because we don’t all like the same kind of music. But here’s one song I love – “Stand in Awe” by the wonderful, Dala. And, personally, I think we need to have more music in our lives – it’s good for your right brain!
The biology of music?
Posted in from the reading room, music, neuroscience on March 1, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Our willingness to listen to music is a biological trait and related to the neurobiological pathways affecting social affiliation and communication, suggests a recent Finnish study. The understanding of the “biology” and even evolutionary position of music in human life is something I hadn’t really thought about until I read Ian McGilchrist’s excellent, “The Master [...]
Bird on the wire
Posted in from the dark room, from the viewing room, music, photography, video on May 22, 2010 | 1 Comment »
What’s that I hear? Stop. Look up. Zoom in. Bird song……..little birds, big sounds, instantly……..I hear this……. Sometimes when the past comes crashing into the present it’s a wholly pleasant experience.
Patterns
Posted in from the dark room, from the living room, from the reading room, life, music, perception, photography on August 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Whether its due to synchronicity or something about focus, attention and awareness, I find that I often have the experience that something I’ve been reading about crops up in all kinds of places. At the moment it’s pattern-spotting. In fact, this pattern-spotting theme is a fundamental one for me. I think it’s an important part [...]
Playing for Change
Posted in from the viewing room, music, video on June 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I’m a great Bob Harris fan. I love his Radio 2 show on a Saturday night. Last night he played three tracks from an album entitled Songs Around the World, from a project known as Playing for Change. Here’s one of the three he played (I could have posted ANY of them!) This music is [...]
John Martyn
Posted in from the music room, from the viewing room, music, video on January 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
John Martyn died today, aged 60. I could choose I don’t know how many songs to share to remember him but here is one of his most famous and best. I love this version. It’s from the Transatlantic Crossing series – so many wonderful performances in those programmes. Here he’s joined by Kathy Mattea, Danny [...]
Angels
Posted in from the dark room, from the living room, from the viewing room, life, movies, music, photography on December 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I saw this angel overlooking George Square in Glasgow…….got me thinking about angels and one of my favourite films of all time – Wim Wender’s “Wings of Desire”. If you haven’t seen it, you might have seen the US re-make which was called “City of Angels”. What I love about this movie is how it [...]
I am because you are
Posted in creativity, from the living room, life, music, narrative, personal growth on September 28, 2008 | 12 Comments »
One of greatest joys of blogging is how it facilitates the discovery, and creation, of connections. My daughter, Amy, who writes the wonderful lessordinary, has developed a whole online network of friends through her blog. She’s a great networker and deliberately creates her blog to make and develop connections with others. Let me tell you [...]
Plants, music and sacred places
Posted in from the dark room, from the living room, from the music room, life, music, photography, tagged ethnobotany, lily, plants on July 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I wandered into the Cathedrale Saint-Saveur in Aix en Provence the other day. It’s one of those awe-inspiring spaces. In fact, it’s a multiple of spaces inside, some vast, and some small and intimate. I’m always interested in the way plants are used by human beings (enthobotany is the correct term!) and so it was [...]
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