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As the third phase filter got added to my lens, certain books, art works and movies began to pop up, unbidden. \u00a0They had been there all along of course, but now I see certain works as pertaining to this new moment of my life.<\/p>\n
To Wit. \u00a0Wit, the long decline and death of the professor of English literature starring Emma Thompson raises many quality of life issues for chronically or terminally ill people and couches them in the poetic context of the metaphysical poet John Donne. \u00a0Definitely worth seeing.<\/p>\n
Last night Kate and I watched Buena Vista Social Club. \u00a0It’s a 1998 documentary so you’ve probably seen it, heard the album and moved on, but from a third phase perspective it’s worth another look. \u00a0Ry Cooder, American guitarist and champion of American roots music as well as traditional music from another the world, went to Cuba in 1997 to record Cuban music. \u00a0When he got there, the folks who had agreed to play either couldn’t come (West Africans) or couldn’t be found. \u00a0So he began asking around and found musicians, many associated with the Buena Vista Social Club which closed in 1944.<\/p>\n
The musicians he found were legends of the Cuban music scene who had passed into obscurity. \u00a0The group, which called itself the Buena Vista Social Club, put out the best selling album of the same name and toured, playing the Netherlands and Carnegie Hall. \u00a0Here’s the third phase connection. \u00a0Many of these resurrected musicians were in their 80’s and 90’s. \u00a0They had, most of them, given up music for one reason or another, i.e. too little money, arthritis, boredom.<\/p>\n
Brought together they reignited in each other the passion, love and craft they shared, making music. \u00a0It is a remarkable story of gifts found, nurtured and revived, just as it is a story of men and women found, nurtured and revived. \u00a0What can we do, I found myself asking, to retain the gifts, the passion, the loves we have so they vitalize and revitalize us as we grow into the further reaches of the third phase?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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