I’m glad I found a way to embed my videos via YouTube. I hope all problems are solved now and so I’ll use YouTube as a publishing platform for videos henceforth. If I have anything to publish or to say.
Although not having anything to say doesn’t necessarily mean you have to remain silent:
A video about the many ways to happiness.
This is my song about those very special people who believe themselves to be the cream of mankind.
I think VIPs and certain animals are a perfect fit. Okay: with a “sorry” to the animals whose inherent dignity knows nothing about special treatment.
I don’t like it when someone explains the meaning of a picture. Or a story.
I like it less when someone explains the meaning of music. Or a mantra.
Why can’t we take things and sounds as they are?
By Detlef.
Let them be. Let them work in their own way.
In Music each note is defined by its environment. There are no good or bad sounds – there are only sounds within a certain harmonic neighborhood of more or less tension.
It’s the individual human ear saying: “This tune is beautiful.” or “This sounds horrible.”
And each individual pair of ears is part of a certain cultural harmony itself, is part of a cultural environment.
Each human being is able to enlarge her or his cultural environment. Each human being is able to be part of a more complex harmony than the one she or he was born into. It takes the virtues of openness, curiosity and tolerance – but the rewards are huge.
By Detlef.
What would this environment of stones be without the colourful leaf?
What would the leaf be in an environment full of other gaudy leaves?
I am not the ‘Due-&-Done-Guy’ – unfortunately. I don’t like to do anything just because is due. In fact, most things that are due I don’t like to do for the exact reason that they are due. I have to do this? Okay: mañana a la mañana. But mañana will have another mañana and so on.
So I am not the man to give any advice – but here it is:
See this at YouTube
You will have forgotten this as you leave this website.
Today I took my old friend, the bass guitar out of its case for the first time this year. It was a little offended, the air in that case apparently got a little thin. I even found a Christmas candy which it had refused to eat. Couldn’t have had such a hard time then.
Here is my song about babbling on while having nothing to say. That’s when talking is most relaxed – isn’t it? I even sing when I don’t have anything to say!
See this at YouTube
Sometimes I don’t have anything to say
but I babble on anyway.
Who cares about what?
In this song I decided to leave a blank here so everybody may put in what she or he cares about.
I care, I care
I hope you care, too
It’s as simple as that – if you leave out the crucial things.
Here is my song about change. Most people would like a change in their lives. But when that change actually arrives, it might be not a welcome guest.
I wrote these lyrics after taking part in the discussion at the Catskill Cottage Seed about the recent changes in our economies, the hopes and the fears those changes are triggering.
I found myself thinking:
If only we could go on the way we did before.
That’s a thought I thought I never would be thinking.
Here are the lyrics:
I want things to stay the way they are.
I want things to stay the way they are.
Or for that matter:
They might change for better.
But that change I can’t rehearse:
It might be a change for worse.Change is always scary.
There is something new I have to trust.
The unfamiliar is hairy,
I don’t like to readjust.I want things to stay the way they are.
I want things to stay the way they are.
Or for that matter:
They might change for better.
But that change I can’t rehearse:
It might be a change for worse.Nothing ever stays the same
Under the good old sun.
Live is an ever changing game:
No change – no fun.I want things to stay the way they are.
I want things to stay the way they are.
Or for that matter:
They might change for better.
Under the good old sun:
No change – no fun.© Detlef Cordes 2009
Considering myself lucky. By Detlef.This is tying in with my New Year’s post: “Consider Yourself Lucky“.
Yesterday Richard’s post “Answer me this” made me think about what it is I want most in life, what I want to do in life and what might be currently lacking.
Taking part in the following discussion my thoughts went to my grandparents, how I seem to be better off than they were and in some respects worse. I was inspired by the purposeful attitude the comments displayed. I was thankful to be able to be a part of the discussion. I felt lucky.
I sorted out my feelings, consulted my Rhyming Dictionary a couple of times and came up with this song:
Consider yourself lucky
’cause with the lucky goes the luck.
Consider yourself lucky
move on, don’t get stuckin a negative perspective
walk on the sunny side – that’s most effective.
Consider yourself lucky
don’t be jealous of the other man.
Consider yourself lucky
because you cancreate your heaven or your hell,
depends on you, create it well.
Consider yourself lucky,
don’t focus on what you lack.
Consider yourself lucky,
what you give is coming back.let the sun shine out of your heart.
It will shine back in right from the start.© Detlef Cordes 2009
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