18th Apr – Read some speeches by Desmond Tutu about the concept, ubuntu, and couldn’t remember where I’d seen that word, until logging off my computer and the word appeared on the screen. It’s the name of my operating system! Ubuntu means “A person is a person through other persons.”
19th Apr – Read that Chopin composed some of his best pieces in an abandoned Carthusian monastery, once occupied by ascetic monks who denied themselves musical instruments.
20th Apr – This morning the rubbish truck had a female mannequin’s head sitting on the dashboard, looking out of the windscreen.
21st Apr – Found out that the word Wikipedia is derived from a Hawaiian word, wiki, meaning quick.
22nd Apr – Visited my son and his new wife, and she put a record on! An LP, on an old wooden stereo. Sounded great!
….your entry 22nd put a record on an old wooden stereo, I assume you are talking vinyls. I am trying to get a stylus for my deck, just found out my deck works on my system, but it hasn’t got a stylus. coincidence!! 😉
Yep, vinyls. My son found a second-hand store that sells them for 50c each. Yesterday he played a Ravel and Debussy compilation record. Unfortunately, if he needs to buy a stylus, like you, it will cost about $80. Hope you find one.
Wow that is pretty costly..I keep looking…I miss the crackles, after all, a real live concert can be pretty crackly..hee, hee!
Actually the cartridge is about $80 for a good one, but just the stylus is much cheaper, about $30.
“A person is a person through other persons.” Interesting concept and one I need to think more about. I like saying this sentence out loud 🙂
I’m glad you liked it. Desmond Tutu also says of ubuntu: “It speaks of how my humanity is caught up and bound up inextricably with yours. … Ubuntu speaks of spiritual attributes such as generosity, hospitality, compassion, caring, sharing. You could be affluent in material possessions but still be without ubuntu.” In traditional African society, a prosperous man without ubuntu, even a chief, “was regarded as someone deserving of pity and even contempt. It was seen as what ultimately distinguished peole from animals.”