LISTEN to the report on NPR: Rhythm in music is about timing — when notes start and stop. And now scientists say they’ve found a curious pattern that’s common to musical rhythm. It’s a pattern also found in nature.
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February 21, 2012
Rhythm & Fractals
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September 3, 2011
Bhutanese prayer flags • Honolulu Academy of the Arts
When I talk to someone for the first time about TaKeTiNa, often that person claims to be “rhythmically challenged” or have “no rhythm.” How can that be? Your heart beats. Your breath flows in and out. Cycles of moons and seasons regulate your life. Your world is a symphony of vibration, pulse, and pattern.
We are rhythmic beings and being in rhythm is our natural state. When circumstances interrupt that state, when unnatural or artificial rhythms are imposed upon us, we feel dis-ease. We suffer.
A TaKeTiNa circle is a place to re-connect with our natural state. There is no agenda, schedule, exam, or grade. We don’t know how far we will go—the journey itself is the goal. In that, there can be no failure: We always achieve our goal.
May 6, 2009
Whenever it’s early twilight,
I watch ’til the star breaks through.
Funny, it’s not a star I see,
It’s always you.
–lyric by George LaMond
When I was a little girl, my father returned from work every day in the late spring/early summer just before it started to get dark. Other times of the year, he put on leather slippers, lit a pipe, and drank a Manhattan. At this special time of the year, however, he took me outside with a blanket to lie together on the grass and wait to see which of the two of us would be the one to spy the first star. Actually, it was probably Venus.
Each of us deserves to have A Man [not necessarily a male person] in her life. It’s so important.
February 21, 2009
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Today,
I came across this,
from the summer of 2006 in Spain.
November 5, 2008
I’ve just returned from the
Bay Area and a week of immersion
in the TaKeTiNa field.
This patch of sidewalk lies
just beside the community center
where all major TaKeTiNa
trainings, workshops, and
other events have taken place
over the last ten years.
I’ve tread this path many times,
but this time it held
particular significance.
Perhaps, you, too, will find
the question intriguing.
