Amir’s Bag Of Marbles
July 18, 2024
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If music be the food of love … play on I have always wondered what the first musical instrument would have been? Presumably, the human vocal chords – chanting, singing
If music be the food of love … play on I have always wondered what the first musical instrument would have been? Presumably, the human vocal chords – chanting, singing
To say Noah loved music and his violin is an understatement. His passion for both had him skipping meals, losing sleep and wandering the fields and forests, fiddling away the hours in practice. A young teenager, he was enrolled at Waihi College where he joined the school orchestra. Unfortunately, his passion just wasn’t enough. For all the time sacrificed and spent in practice, he just wasn’t a very good violin player and so was given only a minor role at the back of the string section. This left him feeling discouraged and frustrated and he fervently prayed for a miracle to change things.
Many of us are all too familiar with the game of tossing a coin to decide a choice, question or stake. To the Romans, it was known as ‘Ship or Head’ – a game of choosing between a ship on one side of the coin or the head of the emperor on the other. In German, it’s ‘Kopf oder Zahl’, and the most common in English is ‘Heads or Tails’. One side of the coin usually depicts a ruler’s head and the other side is called ‘tails’, normally numerical, but perhaps it could just logically be that – the opposite end of an animal from its head.
Not every living thing has a heart. All multicellular organisms need to induce nutrient flow, but not all have a heart, so let’s forget about those heartless creatures for a bit. I’m half a bottle of whiskey done and I am bored. So let’s talk about the Heart.
The sunlight peers through the palm fronds and lays itself gently all over Belle. Her hair lights up like a firebrand in some places, but sleeps quiet and moody in others. It is evening sun – that wonderful golden glow you sometimes get that blankets everything in a surreal light.
If music be the food of love … play on I have always wondered what
To say Noah loved music and his violin is an understatement. His passion for both had him skipping meals, losing sleep and wandering the fields and forests, fiddling away the hours in practice. A young teenager, he was enrolled at Waihi College where he joined the school orchestra. Unfortunately, his passion just wasn’t enough. For all the time sacrificed and spent in practice, he just wasn’t a very good violin player and so was given only a minor role at the back of the string section. This left him feeling discouraged and frustrated and he fervently prayed for a miracle to change things.
Many of us are all too familiar with the game of tossing a coin to decide a choice, question or stake. To the Romans, it was known as ‘Ship or Head’ – a game of choosing between a ship on one side of the coin or the head of the emperor on the other. In German, it’s ‘Kopf oder Zahl’, and the most common in English is ‘Heads or Tails’. One side of the coin usually depicts a ruler’s head and the other side is called ‘tails’, normally numerical, but perhaps it could just logically be that – the opposite end of an animal from its head.
Not every living thing has a heart. All multicellular organisms need to induce nutrient flow, but not all have a heart, so let’s forget about those heartless creatures for a bit. I’m half a bottle of whiskey done and I am bored. So let’s talk about the Heart.
The sunlight peers through the palm fronds and lays itself gently all over Belle. Her hair lights up like a firebrand in some places, but sleeps quiet and moody in others. It is evening sun – that wonderful golden glow you sometimes get that blankets everything in a surreal light.
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