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gato

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Will I Remember? 
Thinking back to 1992, I remember spending my free days in a local park that serves as an Auschwitz memorial, seranading the people that came and went with my classical guitar, a bag lunch, and a thermos filled with hot coffee. People go there to remember their lives and situation, think, and come together.

There sometimes would be a cake sitting on a post, that is customary for people to leave one there in the park, and come to think of it I don't know why. The whole place is filled with brick structures and statues, and bric a brac from WW2. Just thinking about it, I can remember putting my guitar down as I was driven to tears.

Once there, a girl who worked in a local cafe the Cafe Nuvo, in town, asked me to play for her as she did her yoga routine and I played and we were there in the park together alone, as the park is situated in town and was a rather private place to go, with it's hidden location, and large trees, and hedges. I remember playing a lot of guitar there, and sometimes I wouldn't even notice the people there, and once, there was even a birthday party there and I just played almost forgetting what was going on, as the people gathered round the picnic tables.

It was such a strange, sad, and yet wonderful place in that I really confronted myself there, and it was available and so private, I can hardly begin to tell you of all of the things that were on my mind with the people going in and out like ghosts, and I played some of my best music there, sometimes until I had been there for a few hours at a time and completely forgetting, while the sad park stood there reaching from on the ground, like a torrent that never left me, and somehow I still find myself there deep in my mind, when ever I play and stay the hours contemplating with music.

And, I think of today, as the cold winter is lost along into spring; will I remember the times and the music, far into the future and will it stand out, and is there some kind of satisfaction? Seems that whenever I think of it, somehow I have learned the lesson to live for today, yet gently yeilding are the days and the times, and the expression still remains.
Gary
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cathulu

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RE: Will I Remember? (in reply to gato) 
What a philosophical post. Really if you drill down on another level the question is why are we here and what is life all about. That is a hard one, sometimes I think the answer is nothing really, but revel in it none the less. We are impermanent things, like all things really including the stars and perhaps the universe.

The satisfaction is perhaps not one for you to feel directly, but someone else's memory one day will be drawn back to that park like setting and that guitarist on the bench playing. They will be satisfied, and that is maybe your reward?
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gato

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RE: Will I Remember? (in reply to cathulu) 
That is an excellant way to look at it cathulu, and perhaps this whole subject kind of delves in to the concept of duende, although I won't claim that at all here, and perhaps my reward is that I have it all in memory, and I get to draw on the whole experiance for times in the present and future. And, that is what memories are for....other wise the time is over, and it's on to new roads, and new fortunes in experiance, starting with today.
gary
  REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE |  Date Mar. 15 2009 19:27:16
 
gato

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RE: Will I Remember? (in reply to gato) 
I just had the thought, while thinking of comfort and validity in the idea of performing, aren't we afraid to be ourselves? When you think about it, that is the main obstacle in the central idea. Just a thought.
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Ron.M

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RE: Will I Remember? (in reply to cathulu) 
quote:

the question is why are we here


To learn to play Picado ultra-fast!

That's the only purpose in life.

cheers,

Ron
  REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE |  Date Mar. 16 2009 8:35:01
 
Mark2

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RE: Will I Remember? (in reply to Ron.M) 
Or die trying!


quote:

ORIGINAL: Ron.M

quote:

the question is why are we here


To learn to play Picado ultra-fast!

That's the only purpose in life.

cheers,

Ron

  REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE |  Date Mar. 16 2009 10:18:55
 
gato

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RE: Will I Remember? (in reply to Ron.M) 
Picado? Ah yes, Picado, and lots and lots of filters!

Gary
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