TIMELY AND RELEVANT

*  "The mystery of time is a mystery of spirit."

                Liquid Light



Times Past
Recently we watched some old movies filmed in black and white and shades of grey:
I Remember Mama, 1948
Rhapsody in Blue, 1945
The Glen Miller Story, 1953

Mama was about a family from Norway moving into San Francisco.  One of the daughters became a writer and told family stories.  Some songs and l were sung in Norwegian.  I remembered the TV show, based on the movie, from my early childhood where my Mom and I watched with rapt alertness on black and white TV.


Steady Attention


Rhapsody in Blue, the Music of George Gershwin stunned us with the development of a musical style and achievement of a personal dream "ahead of his time."  


Freedom from Distraction


The Glenn Miller Story is about a jazz trombonist who forms a band and creates his signature sound, ever persistant to pursue his goals.


Depth of Concentration


All of these movies showed unexpected twists of plot and depth of character development:  "timely and relevant" even in today's world.  More amazing, I watched every scene...riveted in place for the next event or song without wandering into a haze of daydreams.


Music Jogs Memory:
While Watching the American Music Awards 2017, I stopped stock still and listened: 
Pink and Kelly Clarkston sang Everybody Hurts.  I remembered REM and Michael Stipe's recording and video and live performances:
"Everybody Hurts, take comfort in your friends...."

"Transfixed"

I also recalled Pink Floyd's On the Turning Away and Comfortably Numb."



Jaw Drop



"What's that song?"

I felt time shifting simultaneously...fast time....slow time.....rewind...fast forward all the time.

** Singing songs or listening to music even 12 minutes a day or longer can enhance your life and improve mood and memory. 


"Where were you when you first heard your favorite songs?"

Frequency of Aum, art work Jay Van Shelt, published with permission




*** Climb your first mountain, maybe you hit a valley, a pause, a time of change?  Recharged "Climb your 2nd Mountain...."

Look through every window.

Blog Search Key words:  Time, Vision, Creativity

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Resources:

*Deepak Chopra, M.D. 

*** David Brooks, investigative journalist

Memory: 

** Daniel Amen, M.D.  book Memory Rescue, 2017, help to improve memory and mood

Total Memory Makeover, Marilu Henner, actress, author:  sort, store, and file your memories

Music:
REM: Everybody Hurts, Night Swimming and others

Movies:

The Glenn Miller Story James Stewart and June Allyson 

Leonard Bernstein, conductor, Rhapsody in Blue, American in Paris and more music by Gershwin

Rhapsody In Blue, Warner Brothers, The life and music of George Gershwin, starring Robert Alda

I Remember Mama, 1948, a Norwegian Family settles into life in San Francisco

Dahlis Roy:  Visionary Artist, Author, and Tai Chi Instructor

Images:

Liquid Light, photo by Dahlis

It's Time

Frequency of Aum, Art Work by Jay Van Shelt, Art from Sound, photo reprinted with permission of artist

Look Through Every Window, photo by Dahlis, what do you see?

LIFE AND DEPTH

Blue and Green Vibrations


"It's all random," I think to myself as I sort through stacks of written material and notes of moments past, bits and pieces that, as if by magic, fit together accented by embroideries of pictures, random pictures found in mysterious ways from files unlimited.  

Two intense movies presented themselves this week:  * How Green was my Valley (black and white 1941) and ** Field of Dreams (set in Iowa and released in 1989).

I took "time" to view both movies, all the way through.  How Green Was My Valley was a movie my mom liked.  I had never seen it.  It was about Welsh miners, their families and struggles. What I liked best was hearing songs sung in Welsh.  I suspect there is some genetic memory there....A casual view turned into a sit down and pay attention focused event.  The wanderer in me makes sitting still almost impossible...I even watched it the next day as it rolled by again.  "Imagine"

Field of Dreams Movie is always a dance between visible and invisible.  I love the pay and interplay of interdimensional experiences, emotions, and spontaneity.  I thought back to Iowa where we lived at the time Field of Dreams was released.  Again, I sat spellbound in the moments of familiar dialogue and character development.

Both movies has complex plot twists and surprises of all kinds, "pay attention."  I loved looking at the designs of houses and factories, stones and frame work, and farms and fields.  I saw old dishes and cooking utensils, chairs and tables  that were strangely familiar.  I relived ancient customs and traditions long forgotten. 

When I was a little child, I dreamed of living on a farm in Iowa!  I would raise Collies and Horses in ultimate joy and creativity.  How would I achieve this goal?  I had no idea....I never got the horses but was fortunate to have two Collie companions along the way.  One of my Collie's family tree was centered in Council Bluff's, Iowa with Steve Field and his Parader Collies.  I even met Steve Field when I was 12 years old!  He was the judge at the Collie Club of Western Pennsylvania specialty show. 

Pause, Breathe, Smile

"Just yesterday" arrived and shook me out of my daydream of living and reliving movie scenes and dialogue bits.  Finally I was on my way to write.  Autumn sunshine shimmering  across my paintings stopped me in my tracks.  I remembered to "linger" and enjoy the sunny moment as I often just run away and "work."  I remembered to put aside "plans" and watch the sunshine trail at as it tracked across the paintings.  This sunlit effect only happens a few afternoons in November each year.  Only then a light show plays with dancing color drifting and lighting up the autumn paintings. They are  brought into the living room for their time to shine in the  bright light of a fading November landscape.  I thought about Claude Monet and how important the play of light and shadows were to him, veiled in painted form.  Paintings are made to be touched with brushes of sunshine.

I remembered when we moved to this location, "sunlight flickered" across the paintings in the living room and lit them up beyond belief!  I sat and stared.  Then and now.

I remembered to meditate and breathe in the lesson of  *** "I play creatively in the field of time."

As I watched the play of light shift, I practiced a bit of Tai Chi.  Areas of the painting lit up in turn from left to right.  First the birch tree trunk became stark silver white.  Next the middle ground illuminated.  I saw shapes I'd never seen before.  In the antlers of the tall pine tree near the top appeared a small figure with head and wings, or was it a white butterfly with green stripes?  Or perhaps an open book, or maybe all three?  Below the pine trees in the orange leafy area I saw a leopard face. The nose, jaw and underjaw are very plain.  There are also other animal shapes and faces visible.  As the bright orange gold tree on the right lit up to full color, I was dazzled by the 3-D effect of the whole painting, much more discernable now as the light tumbled and swayed.

"Depth of Field"

And today it is cloudy.  "What if" I hadn't taken yesterday to stop and enjoy the view?

"It's About Time"



Key Words:  Time, Collies, Shirley MacLaine, Dreams, Claude Monet, Deepak Chopra

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Resources:

Movies:

* How Green Was My Valley (1941): 20th Century Fox, University of CA Film Archives, Los Angeles, CA

** Field of Dreams (1989):  Universal Studios, Set in Iowa, a farmer plows up corn to create a baseball field for "imaginary" players.

 Meditation

***Deepak Chopra, M.D.

Tai Chi
Dr. Paul Lam
Dr. Yang, Jwing-ming 

Dahlis Roy:  Visionary Artist, Author, and Tai Chi Instructor

Images
Blue and Green Vibrations, photo by Dahlis from the TV

Laddie, photo of my first Collie by my father

Full Color Autumn oil painting by Dahlis  Chessie, our cat barely visible, walks to the right of the small green bush in the middle of the painting