Yet another video episode in the seekers journey. I love Pandeiros. I love playing them, hearing them, touching them, and now (what the fuck) making them. So, here is my first foray into the pandeiro making experience, making jingles (platinelas). With only about a 60% of suffering 3rd degree burns and never having worked brass (or any metal) in my life, I figured, Why not? [] the hero of the Odyssey is a great fighter, a wily schemer, a ready speaker, a man of stout heart and broad wisdom who knows that he must endure without too much complaining what the gods send; and he can both build and sail a boat, drive a furrow as straight as anyone, beat a young braggart at throwing the discus, challenge the Pheacian youth at boxing, wrestling or running; flay, skin, cut up and cook an ox, and be moved to tears by a song. He is in fact an excellent all-rounder; he has surpassing arête [excellence]. Areté implies a respect for the wholeness or oneness of life, and a consequent dislike of specialization. It implies a contempt for efficiency...or rather a much higher idea of efficiency, an efficiency which exists not in one department of life but in life itself. Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, design a building, conn a ship, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve an equation ...
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