From Moses to Mozart in the land of Peace And Joy

SOMEWHERE BETWEEN MOSES AND MOZART SEEKING PEACE AND JOY IN YOUR. OWN WAY...

Okay let’s start by admitting sometimes we have a serious week and we haven’t laughed. Enough...that’s been my week.  Have I smiled some—yes, I’m not dead just a little on the somber side.  Therefore today I’m sitting down to.write with that  all too often ignored writing prompt—“What would you write if  someone told you the theme of your writing was “screw this, laugh at yourself and get over. It.”  So  in that spirit...

Moses

I believe there was. A Moses.  I believe he was a leader of some folks who said k”hey we’ve had enough of this slave gig” and through divine intervention and human  ambition they left their captures.  The Ten Commandments... I don’t believe  they were true.  Now, I do believe there may have been  some commandments  that were inspired in the soul of Moses and that somehow  got written on some stone, but  in the Bible  the number. 10 is not very  frequently found.  I think there were.twelve to begin with.  So what happened?  Well  one of two things seem likely.  Moses ran out of space on those. Two pieces of stone or  got tired of writing with a rock on another  rock.  You ever. Tried carving something into a stone while God was watching?  Heck I had trouble diagramming. A sentence  with a nun watching...and that’s small potatoes  by comparison.  The other. Possibility and I think probably  the more likely, is that these commandments were meant for future generations and Moses didn’t understand them so he said let’s stick with this ten and someone else can do the last 2 later.  I’m not going to. Suggest my biblical scholarship is  astute enough to  pinpoint the missing two commandments, however I will offer  five  possible commandments that we should have  learned.

1. thou shalt not keep your remote control near the. Couch—you see we have violated that and men have been wasting  hours of their lives searching  in the hell of commercials as punishment. 
2. Thou shalt  not sell coffee for  over. $1.00 per cup—Now the Jewish  people were still into. Wine and the  majority of civilization was. Heavy into drinking. Different. Forms of ale.   It is  reported that. The workers who built the pyramids were given 5 quartz  of beer as part of their daily pay. 
3. Thou shalt not take the tags off  your matress—it’s a law of the Gentiles now we aren’t sure why so it must be one of the “mysteries.”
4. Thou shalt not have your phone on in the. Movie theater..—Look Moses was writing on a rock and even the Chinese  were only using the abacus ... Somehow getting this one reinstated would  be great does anyone. Have the Pope as a facebook friend:
5. Thou shalt not ever, under any circumstances, tell a pitcher to swing away. On a three ball-no strike count.  If you don’t understand  this one, find any true  baseball  fan and they’ll explain it to you chapter and verse.  

Mozart

Well where to begin...I don’t really know much about.”classical” music, however, if somebody said you have to pick one of the classics to listen to. For a couple hours every day Mozart would get the nod.  Most  of his tunes are quick-paced and “simplee”, yet bold and require musicians  to flow through scales and feel the rises and falls rather. Than sitting back and waiting for the audience to wonder  if this is a serious piecw, hw ahoots a faster higher pitched instrument over the  top  of the bass score and you know right now that this is  a meaningful section.  Also  you know that Mozart. Couldn’t have happened in the time of Moses or any earlier time when writing  things down took a long time.  He uses so many  notes and changes in so few. Measures that he wouldn’t have  made it on two tablets...it would have taken  carving. One side of the Grand Canyon or something...Mozart is probably. The closest thing to  rock ‘n’ roll.  The thing. About Mozart is, for me, I can’t really just play it in the background, I have to pay attention to its flurries and it touches my emotions.  Now, I can listen a bit and then be emotionally  fired up enough to create almost. In any way—write a poem or song—write a blog—edit a photo—reframe a  lingering  problem or puzzle... I. Mean it strikes me in that. Way.  I think it is Mozart that was played in those  “baby” studies that  were conducted and that led to claims that. Playing classical music led to quicker development  or smart babies... My kids heard mostly  social justice. Tunes so when  they were. Two they protested everything.  Oh your kids did that too—well  who do you think was sending them the underground messages through Barney and Sesame  Street?  

Anyway what’s all this have to do with peace and joy?  Moses put out  10 rules and  probably two others that said “treat Mozart people well and here are the boundaries for doing that.  In short, he started a path for us.  Mozart said “hell...I’m a classical guy but screw the elevator, I’m going to jam.  He told musicians to. Grab an idea and run with it...Run till you reach your limit if you have to, but don’t sit around. Wondering what the. Limits of your. Creativity might be.  He’s saying don’t ever. Stop and then say “I wish I would have seen where that road went.”  I find peace in Mosesa and Mozart because they. Created some iconic  tools for running  experiments with  life.  

For  Mozart the 11th commandment  was Thou shall not hesitate to push the creative. Sap ace and your musicians will come along with you.  

Mozart didn’t care that his sound was different.  I doubt if he ever. Even looked at the billboard charts to make sure he was still no. 1.  Mozart wrote for the living... I’ve never heard ay of his classics at a funeral.  So maybe when. I have my ashes  shot from the gun placements at Crapo park into the Mississippi It will be  at the end of some funky. Simon and Garfunkel/Hunger Strike/Metallica/Mozart mash up.  

So to sum upas we head into  2020 approaching peace and joy for me and I imagine for some of you means  building some foundations (Moses) and then  getting the fuel to let yoursaelf fly (Mozart)—I’m with you on that and let’s all use our 20/20 visions  to seek  peace and joy through all the great experiences and experiments that we can have. With every breath we take (no I’m not trying to get the Police’s endorsement) 

Check out Mozart’s music to study by on Spotify .... and come back here soon.