All Blog Posts Tagged 'i' (4)

Humming can be like chanting, an almost unconscious form of meditation. With lips pressed together, sound vibrating on the tender skin, the head becomes filled with resonance, and there is a sense of echoing amid the canyons of cavities within the skull. Images and colors come, floating on the notes. I remember reading the autobiography of Nina Simone and how she wrote that, after a performance, sometimes she would be awake for hours, lying in her bed, the songs still reverberating in her brain.… Continue

I want to tell something that happened more than 40 years ago, to be precise 43 years. And in spite of the fact that this event occured so far in the past, I remember it so clear and bright as if it happened yesterday, probably because of the immensity of the impact it had on me that morning I stood there, not far from the church, in front of the butcher’s shop, waiting on the 65 to come. I planned to go with the bus to Antwerp city where my mother lived that time. Not so much to bring a visit… Continue

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