From Cindy Cosway
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this and that from chatty jupe
I would like to note that this is the first time I have ever seen counterpuntal used in a sentence. OK, full disclosure, it’s the first time I’ve ever seen this word. I looked it up, but still not entirely sure I understand it’s meaning. Thanks for always challenging me!
🙂
From jupiterj
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this and that from chatty jupe
So noted. : )
Spell check didn’t recognize it. I always think that it’s short hand for point counter (against) point. In this context it refer to a learned style of making up music that fits a complex set of rules about how the notes move against each other. I took a counterpoint class in college. Bach studied it.
From Richard Dalon
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happiness is for pigs
Have you managed to find Herman Tennessen’s article “Happiness is for the pigs”? Herman was a friend and mentor to me as a graduate student in philosophy at the Univ. of Alberta & I lost my copy.
From jupiterj
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happiness is for pigs
Richard, a simple Google revealed this citation: HAPPINESS IS FOR THE PIGS: PHILOSOPHY VERSUS PSYCHOTHERAPY.
TENNESSEN, HERMAN
Journal of Existentialism, Vol 7(26), 1966, 181-214. Thanks for mentioning this.
From Phil
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I like America
Jazz, yes, but don’t forget baseball! And when it comes to literature, our country produced the new genre of the short story. It took Europeans to develop it, but most attribute its birth to our side of the Atlantic. Ah, the beginning of the shrinking attention span! But, still, there’s a lot to praise about short stories. I think to restore my patriotism after dismal elections, I go read one now.
From jupiterj
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I like America
I don’t think the USA can claim to originate the short story. I’ve never heard that before and a quick look shows that the genre originates in the gothic tales published in the UK in the late 18th century. Before that of course there was Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and Boccacio’s Decameron. But I hope your patriotism is healing. Heh.
From Rhonda
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jupe continues to find interesting shit online
Wow – “Grey hair and silver linings” was really good. What a gentle, compassionate view of the passing of years – not only things lost and chances gone, but the opportunity to see ourselves and our world with more patience and perspective. I’ll be passing it on to a few friends!
From jupiterj
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jupe continues to find interesting shit online
I also liked what one of the online commenters said: “The world doesn’t care if you’re happy or not. Just get your work done.”
From David
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a little reality for jupe
Here is a little reality for you…..
Ever have one of those mornings…..where you wake up a bit late because your cell phone was on silent/vibrate, you go to take a shower and step in cat shit, luckily you have your flip flops on but still get some on you toe, the water is out so you have to wipe your toe and flip flop off with bleach and toilet paper, you have to dry shave and brush your teeth with bottled water which is Corona tap water cold from a reused bottle with a bit of cat hair in it. You continuously sneeze because of allergies all the while and it’s colder than usual out and have to walk a mile to the bus stop which you just barely make the bus after running up and down 3 flights of stairs to get over the train tracks so you start to sweat and you get on the bus and the crazy guy who talks to himself is present and you have to sit near him and he is nervous so is getting louder and louder with “PLEASE STOP CALLING ME SIR!” And you have to prepare to be in front of a bunch of teenagers and parents at a conference you don’t really want to be at and missing the Thanksgiving Day potluck at your work where you know the day will be kick back…..
But….you are grateful to be alive and for what God has given you. Only as much as He thinks you can handle….ever have one of those mornings?
=^|
From Rhonda
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anxiety dream and jupe's exaggerated sense of significance
Is it possible to have an exaggerated sense of significance, while at the same time having an exaggerated sense of insignificance? Cause maybe THAT’S what you’ve got…
From jupiterj
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anxiety dream and jupe's exaggerated sense of significance
Very good. One of the things I have figured out about my own personality is that is one of struggle. I own the struggle. In fact, it’s who I am in many ways. I have a need to examine ideas and situations from many perspectives. This inevitably leads to cognitive dissonance and holding more than one conflicting idea in my head at once. “Living in the future is a lot like having bees in your head.” Firesign Theater
From Rhonda
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anxiety dream and jupe's exaggerated sense of significance
Well, that would tend to explain why you seem to like playing devil’s advocate all the time. Or, if I bring up X, you’ll explain how you really feel that Y is necessary to take into consideration here, and you believe X is overrated, but if I’m talking at a later date about Y, you’ll argue that one really can’t forget the importance of X, which has always been very crucial to your understanding of the issue, and anyway, Y has significant problems.
For someone who’s into consensus, it’s kind of maddening! But I’m starting to get it…
From Cindy Cosway
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quick bleak blog
Bizarre. I’ve never understood their reasoning behind going to some folks weddings and not others. And really baffled when Grandma came to ours, but Grandpa didn’t. I’m sure they were making some sort of statement, but I never really understood what the message was supposed to be. Perhaps I’m not meant to know. They have helped me to take things less personally all the way around. When I feel slighted by someone, I’ll often pause and think – maybe it’s them and not me? Maybe.
From Elizabeth
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jupe rambles on to his 20 or so readers (thanks for reading!)
Hi Dad!
From jupiterj
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jupe rambles on to his 20 or so readers (thanks for reading!)
Hi!!!!!
From Rhonda
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jupe rambles on to his 20 or so readers (thanks for reading!)
Those organ pics are kind of spooky. And WHAAAT is the first one supposed to be?
Actually, they all kind of weird me out.
From jupiterj
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jupe rambles on to his 20 or so readers (thanks for reading!)
Heh. Not sure what that instrument is or where it came from. A google image search didn’t tell me. Hey. Organ is a spooky instrument, n’est pas? But thank you for reading!
From Elizabeth
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it just doesn't matter
I forgot to comment on this one, but thanks for the video of Bill Murray’s speech! “It just doesn’t matter!” <3
From jupiterj
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it just doesn't matter
You’re welcome! This speech is formative on how I sometimes work with performance anxiety. Plus I just like it.
From Mark
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a few xmas secrets
My Spiritual Director recommended the Wyman book to me a few months ago. I started it but haven’t completed it. There are some very lovely turns of phrases in it highlighting Wyman’s background in poetry. Because he is talking theology but has no real training in the field, I find him sometimes hard to follow. I sort of have to translate what he’s saying into my own theological framework. But I have enjoyed what I’ve read of it.
See you next week!
From jupiterj
on
a few xmas secrets
How bout that? David Brooks quoted enough to interest me. Looking forward to seeing the fam…
From Helen Duggan
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Sheet Music
Dear Steve
I am sorry that you feel that no one is looking at your website; I have certainly had a good, and interested, look this afternoon. Although I regularly search for liturgical music, particularly psalm settings, this is the first time I have gone into enough pages of search results to come across your site. There are more than a couple of pieces here that I can see being useful this year, and I will, of course, let you know when I do use them. I hope you are enjoying the fourth day of Christmas, and wish you a happy new year.
Helen Duggan
From jupiterj
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Sheet Music
Helen, Thanks for looking at the website. I can tell that I get about 30 hits or so a day, but I usually don’t check to see which pages people are looking at. Most of my viewers are family members scattered over the world. The compositions are here, indeed, for anyone to use. Feedback welcome. Happy Christmas to you!
Steve Jenkins
From Sarah
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jupe recommends that you "fall to your knees and let your head become heavy with new insights"
I’ve been slowly working my way through the rolling stones list (backwards). I was not very impressed with most of them so far 😛 Perhaps you have not seen Jim Carrey’s Saturday Night Live version of the Chandelier dance yet? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAtaEKrTEE4
love you!
x
From jupiterj
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jupe recommends that you "fall to your knees and let your head become heavy with new insights"
So does this mean you are not impressed with ones I am? Perfectly okay of course. I showed the Chandelier and Beyonce to the visiting group of Jenkinses. As far as I could see they thought they were pretty cool. I just watched the Jim Carrey dealy. I noticed the gratuitous cameo of the ever present Loren Micheals, producer. Please feel free to point me to music videos you like….. love from Dad
From David
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gibbons and a movie
California Jenkins saw it (into the woods) and all liked it. My favorite part was when the two Princes were singing together. That was funny. And BTW, Pall Blart Mall Cop rules!
David
From jupiterj
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gibbons and a movie
I liked that scene as well.
From Rhonda
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3 books I haven't read yet
You are welcome! It’s a little meandering, but all in all, I liked it quite a bit and thought you might too.
By the way, I’ve been reading through a bunch of those essays on the best of Paris Review site you linked (sitting at home with the kids for days and all…), and there are some really great ones on there!
The stolen snare drum ranked up there for me, though I also enjoyed the one about the Berlin Wall, skateboarding and writing, and the interview of the obit writer for the NYT, to name a few.
Hope you can stay home and read today!
From Sarah
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church musicians and money and links
I wasn’t talking about you, silly.
I have a feeling this is more prevalent here in the uk… Along with general classism and blatant shallow judgemental crap. I don’t remember feeling it quite so strongly in america.
From jupiterj
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church musicians and money and links
It’s definitely here. Eileen mentioned that she experienced it when she took the AutoCad course. I find gender issues confusing and often have difficulty identifying with one.
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