http://www.ydig.us/maybe-explaining-experience-is-as-helpful-as-gilding-a-lily-or-adding-another-hue-to-the-rainbow/ dig to understand, to know, to be aware of, to enjoy, to be hip to Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:19:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.ydig.us/maybe-explaining-experience-is-as-helpful-as-gilding-a-lily-or-adding-another-hue-to-the-rainbow/comment-page-1/#comment-303 Judy Thu, 11 Jun 2009 01:26:48 +0000 http://www.ydig.us/?p=1049#comment-303 Thanks for the perspective. You are quite right, and I will keep this in mind at the Charles River Festival in Boston next weekend. J. Thanks for the perspective. You are quite right, and I will keep this in mind at the Charles River Festival in Boston next weekend.
J.

]]> http://www.ydig.us/maybe-explaining-experience-is-as-helpful-as-gilding-a-lily-or-adding-another-hue-to-the-rainbow/comment-page-1/#comment-300 George Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:40:17 +0000 http://www.ydig.us/?p=1049#comment-300 Thank you for your insight, as ever. A noted songwriter by the name of Robert Zimmerman once remarked that music journalism is, on the whole, "by people who can't write, about people who can't sing, for people who can't read". The greatest barrier to communicating our experience is our own mind. As the great Libyan playwright Sheikh Z'bir wrote in 'Hamlet', "There is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so". We always hear how important it is to 'have an open mind', but what is the use of an open mind when we are subject to such a daily barrage of useless drivel, in the midst of which is the very occasional pearl of truth? In that respect, the quality of discrimination is perhaps our most powerful weapon...i.e. the ability to recognize what is worthwhile to imbibe and also what is worthwhile to pass on to others. Thank you for your insight, as ever. A noted songwriter by the name of Robert Zimmerman once remarked that music journalism is, on the whole, “by people who can’t write, about people who can’t sing, for people who can’t read”. The greatest barrier to communicating our experience is our own mind. As the great Libyan playwright Sheikh Z’bir wrote in ‘Hamlet’, “There is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so”. We always hear how important it is to ‘have an open mind’, but what is the use of an open mind when we are subject to such a daily barrage of useless drivel, in the midst of which is the very occasional pearl of truth? In that respect, the quality of discrimination is perhaps our most powerful weapon…i.e. the ability to recognize what is worthwhile to imbibe and also what is worthwhile to pass on to others.

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