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Float Water on Air: notes from a composer's journey: Responding to hateful actions with grace
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Float Water on Air: notes from a composer's journey. A journal of my lessons in the merging of music and social change. Monday, February 16, 2015. Responding to hateful actions with grace. And went to watch them from the porch. There were no more incidents. Our navigators afterward reported many looks of astonishment and even inquiries about what we were doing and how much it cost! Kudos to the Men of Color Deep Refuge group that organized this support group style daylong. Posted by Qian Li. 160;He pract...
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Float Water on Air: notes from a composer's journey: Buddhism strengthens science practices
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Float Water on Air: notes from a composer's journey. A journal of my lessons in the merging of music and social change. Wednesday, March 18, 2015. Buddhism strengthens science practices. I've been leading a weekly meditation circle at the Exploratorium for staff. A participant asked me some probing questions about what the practice means to me today, and I'll share my reflections here. At East Bay Meditation Center. Meditation tools and practice have helped me identify difficulties as they arise and have...
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Float Water on Air: notes from a composer's journey: November 2014
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Float Water on Air: notes from a composer's journey. A journal of my lessons in the merging of music and social change. Friday, November 28, 2014. Seeds of virtue: how I'm moving forward after news from Ferguson. A Kingian nonviolence trainer once showed how our conventional emotional reaction is to direct anger at people and reserve compassion for conditions, e.g. poverty and illness. Anger - - - - - - - - - - people. Compassion - - - - - - conditions. Posted by Qian Li. Wednesday, November 26, 2014.
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Float Water on Air: notes from a composer's journey: May 2014
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Float Water on Air: notes from a composer's journey. A journal of my lessons in the merging of music and social change. Tuesday, May 27, 2014. Home Theater Festival at the Intersection of Trash. A great sheet of packaging paper was shaken and ripped, an analog phone was dismantled, crystal glasses and crude string instruments with bucket resonators were played in all manners. In this selection you can hear one member using a riding crop. This is the full photo of visual responses the players left:. 160;H...
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Float Water on Air: notes from a composer's journey: April 2015
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Float Water on Air: notes from a composer's journey. A journal of my lessons in the merging of music and social change. Sunday, April 26, 2015. Embodied" for audience and orchestra. The icing on the cake was a required recommendation letter "from a composition teacher or music professional" - as of composers survive by being in school or racking up performance expenses. Here's an excerpt from mine, by Dan Schwartz, a percussionist coworker at the Exploratorium:. Posted by Qian Li. Support my work securely.
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Float Water on Air: notes from a composer's journey: December 2014
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Float Water on Air: notes from a composer's journey. A journal of my lessons in the merging of music and social change. Wednesday, December 24, 2014. Christmas Special: Oppression in Rudolph's story. I could add that as sentient beings capable of ethical analysis and behavior, it's our calling to defend life and diversity against less capable forces. That's not central to my argument in this post, though.). And how did reindeer society become so conformist, anyway? Recently a white coworker remarked to a...
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Float Water on Air: notes from a composer's journey: February 2014
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Float Water on Air: notes from a composer's journey. A journal of my lessons in the merging of music and social change. Saturday, February 22, 2014. The trains between: my vacation spanning Oakland, New York, Toronto, and Vancouver. The world is rich with wonders, if only we would awaken to them. Recovered scripts from an ancient landfill. Quotes Jesus: "The kingdom of the Father is spread out upon the earth, and men do not see it.". Are there words to describe the Rockies? To pass eleven days and nine n...
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Float Water on Air: notes from a composer's journey: Response to Pope Francis's Encyclical
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Float Water on Air: notes from a composer's journey. A journal of my lessons in the merging of music and social change. Tuesday, June 23, 2015. Response to Pope Francis's Encyclical. I'm excited to write today about Pope Francis's rallying cry for stewardship of the planet and resounding admonishment of consumerism and greed. This is the first time I've heard a high-profile leader point out that those who suffer the most from climate change are those least responsible for it. For impoverishing the planet.
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Float Water on Air: notes from a composer's journey: February 2015
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Float Water on Air: notes from a composer's journey. A journal of my lessons in the merging of music and social change. Monday, February 16, 2015. Responding to hateful actions with grace. And went to watch them from the porch. There were no more incidents. Our navigators afterward reported many looks of astonishment and even inquiries about what we were doing and how much it cost! Kudos to the Men of Color Deep Refuge group that organized this support group style daylong. Posted by Qian Li. My teen brot...
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