Where to Now?

Bill,yesterday in the afternoon I joined my friends going to the Old Opera in Frankfurt. My birthday surprise was a concert with the Funkbrothers. It was great and very unique. They had a special guest: He was German and he was white. But on the stage they've been just one. The same happened to us, the audience. Black and white people. Then one of the funkbrothers said: Now, times changed, didn't they? In our beginnings we took coffee breaks, years passed and we took alcohol-breaks, years passed and we took smoking breaks and now we have to take pill-breaks to go ahead. This was fun, we all laughed because we all knew what he was talking about. But putting his words into an other situation may be in a not so funny behavior, nobody would laugh and he would have been "the blamed". So, words and situations are what we're making them. It's up to each one of us if we laugh, cry or condemn.After a couple of time no one in the audience was able to sit anymore. Everyone was dancing. Because the people on the stage expressed their feelings and put that spell on us. They love what they do. The love the music. Giving that spell to us makes us loving the music, feeling the music.For me, thats why music is one of the fine arts. If I listen carefully, with all my senses, to music (no matter if I listen to Marvin Gaye, Tschaikowsky or Mozart), I can feel what they feel. Because musicians express their feelings through their music. And that is the point for me: They allow us to take a look inside. Did a politician ever let us look inside? No, because of his fear that we could see something. And sometimes there is nothing to see than profit. They don't love what they are doing. They're doing their jobs for: Profit and Power. And one result of profit and power is, and here I agree with Phil Davies, to be able to deal with fear and give your own fear to others while thinking: If I give my fear to others I will loose my own fear. But this is an error. By giving away your fear to others, you only enlarge it, nothing else, you never loose it. Putting people in fear is the absolute wrong way.

Ulla