Tuesday, December 10, 2019
Nothing is sweeter than strong music
Music is life and life is
music
Christmas
is the most pagan festival you can imagine. It is dedicated to a simple pine
tree or a fir tree if you are lucky. It is centering all our attention on
presents to give to others and to receive from others. It is cultivating our
gluttony and appetite, thirst and food-greed, I mean greed for food, with no
real hunger. We choose on that occasion the heaviest and fattest and greasiest
food we can find, and all our desserts are concocted with fresh cream,
chocolate, butter, and all possible unhealthy stuff, like sugar, even when
eaten in moderation. And consider the drinks: as high in alcohol as we can
imagine, nothing but alcoholic beverages of any kind, and for some people laced
with cannabis.
In all our traditions, Christmas, in spite of its name, is nothing but a distraction from all possible good motivations we could nurture. Christ is mostly forgotten. Hanukah is vastly secondary. And those are only two examples. The old Celtic or Germanic traditions are not even thought of or hinted at. We have become a herd of unconscious consuming machines who will sell on eBay or on some black market all the presents we got on that occasion.
So, I may think it is high time to retire into our mind, spirit and soul, and to start to think of the real beauty of this world, the real beauty of this humanity, the creative inventions and works of art they have produced over several hundred centuries, at least three or four hundred centuries. It is high time we start meditating on the beauty of our very own artistic production, and first of all our music. So, get to the 94 pages I offer you for this Christmas and start getting the CDs, the DVDs and the books and dive or delve into them. You will find a few golden nuggets in the ground nutmeg you sprinkle in your coffee
Jacques COULARDEAU
In all our traditions, Christmas, in spite of its name, is nothing but a distraction from all possible good motivations we could nurture. Christ is mostly forgotten. Hanukah is vastly secondary. And those are only two examples. The old Celtic or Germanic traditions are not even thought of or hinted at. We have become a herd of unconscious consuming machines who will sell on eBay or on some black market all the presents we got on that occasion.
So, I may think it is high time to retire into our mind, spirit and soul, and to start to think of the real beauty of this world, the real beauty of this humanity, the creative inventions and works of art they have produced over several hundred centuries, at least three or four hundred centuries. It is high time we start meditating on the beauty of our very own artistic production, and first of all our music. So, get to the 94 pages I offer you for this Christmas and start getting the CDs, the DVDs and the books and dive or delve into them. You will find a few golden nuggets in the ground nutmeg you sprinkle in your coffee
Jacques COULARDEAU
Editions
La Dondaine 2019
# posted by Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU @ 12:07 PM 
