Re: Newsweek article and all the rest

[cookfidl <cookfidl...>]

Also, Ari , I think none of us knows how to do this, how to be of comfort to
each other. We have never suffered this collectively in this country.  We
are all going to say the wrong thing, or get offended at something someone
else says. We are clumsy at counseling each other, and we all do it
differently. The whole nation is grieving, and all we can do is what we
know. Open the case, take out the ax, and play.


Cookie Segelstein
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ari Davidow" <ari (at) ivritype(dot)com>
To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 11:09 PM
Subject: Re: Newsweek article and all the rest


> I think we've pretty much clarified that the article from the onion
> was well-intended, and amused some people. It didn't have that
> effect on everyone.
>
> But there isn't going to be any vindication or who is more right
> or anything else. We can either decide to hear each other, and,
> where necessary move on, or we can let the silly enmesh us.
>
> I think a lot of what we're feeling has to do with the horror of
> Sept. 11, and we need to hear each other realizing that we've all
> been though a scary time, and that it may not end in our time.
>
> But that's partly why we make music (or, in my case, talk about
> making music). Not just to celebrate specific simkhas, or to mark
> life cycles or year cycles, but to inspire, to provide hope, to
> provide pleasure and comfort.
>
> It's probably time to refocus on that music, and in particular,
> the jewish music that brought us together in the first place,
> and that lights our ears in a world that needs good music very much.
>
> ari
>
>
> Ari Davidow
> ari (at) ivritype(dot)com
> list owner, jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
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>
>
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