more normal than not

What would that be like?

To work someplace like this?

Who does that kind of thing?

These guys, I guess.

This is  a short film about what it means to get the chance to reclaim something that was lost.

The thing that was lost was the respect of the musical community.

The reclamation was achieved by taking what you do seriously….artistically….creatively….commercially….

These artists have some silly times….it looks like a fun place to work….but they’re dead serious about the art of building guitars.

I’d like to do something like this.

I’d like to play more guitar.

Maybe I should forget about a career change and just play more guitar?

Jenny and Sparrow were coming home from dropping Nate off at school.

When they passed by the camp stables, Jenny noticed that Sparrow was getting more animated

When Jenny looked in the rear view mirror to see what was going on, Sparrow exclaimed with great excitement, “I SAW A BUNCH OF UNICORNS WITHOUT HORNS!!”

“A bunch of unicorns without horns.”

Of course, they were just horses.

“Just horses.”

But, to a child… or an adult with an uncorrupted sense of wonder, they could be a field of unicorns….without horns.

Isn’t it funny how our sense of what is possible is damaged by what we accept as our reality?

Why do we suppose that the possibility of magic in our world is unrealistic?

I know that a horse is…a horse.

Of course a horse is a horse.

But what if they really were a field of unicorns without horns?

How cool would that be?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJrS2b-r6ec

From the YouTube description:

The documentary tells the stories of four traditional Mennonites (Aganetha, Cornelio, Pedro and Jacobo) living in two different communities. The colonies of El Sabinal and El Capulin are settled in the Mexican state of Chihuahua and look like typical communities of conservative so-called “Russian” Mennonites, who formed as an ethnic group in southern Russia, but who are of Dutch and German ancestry and language. These German-speaking Mennonites have a long history of migrations, beginning in the Netherlands, where the group originated, to the then mostly German-speaking area around Danzig (see also: Vistula delta Mennonites) and from there to Russia (see also: Chortitza Colony and Molotschna Colony, then to Canada and from there to Mexico in search of a place where they can freely practice their religion and speak Plautdietsch, an East Low German dialect of the German language. The four protagonists are longing for their perfect world in balance between tradition and modernity: The colony of El Sabinal lives in isolation and rejects any modern technology, whereas the colony of El Capulin begins to accept innovations such as electricity and cars. The more orthodox members of the community will migrate to the Bolivian rainforest.

There is peace in simplicity.

I guess that you can find peace in the midst of our modern and complex society.

What a Zen master I’ll be when I figure out how to do that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9XlAMu_cUU