I listed some things on Ebay last night and got some practice in. If I compare how I play now to when I started it's a night-and-day difference and I'm only what, a month or two in? And this is an instrument that takes years to get decent on. I should give it those years. Besides playing, I've been doing breathing exercises any old time and especially when first awake, lying in bed. I just breathe in as much as I can, like trying for a high number on the Voldyne, but breathing in a bit faster than I did on that. Because I had to breathe in faster when playing the shakuhachi.
I watched too much YouTube today but with the things I watched, I realized that a big reason for me leaving Hawaii for the mainland was, I really thought white society would be like Japanese society, except, you know, with white people instead. I could be in a community and have a sort of a tribe, like an extended family. And the closest thing I've seen to this is among the Asian communities around here and I've sure gravitated to them by preference. Whites don't give a shit about each other, not even within families.
I even got into Conservatism for a while as I rightly perceived them as more tribal, but they really don't give a shit about anyone and whites live in this dog-eat-dog culture.
Back in Hawaii I'll never be a full member of the local Japanese community but like here, I can make friends and participate in things and become known as a "good egg".
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