The point of the website is to deepen one's understanding of the process of discernment. As We hear so often, young people today feel like they are presented with an excess of opportunities. I think this website will be a helpful tool in helping them to discover what is really animating them in their hearts, for it is through our deepest longings and desires that we encounter just what it is that God wants for us.
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I learned the discernment process while being on a Parish Council in Washington State over a decade ago.
I still use it today when important decisions need my full team: Head, Heart, and The Wise One!
Thanks! Now I have something else to forward.
AMDG,
-J.
Semper simplicitas!
Tin Whistle..
Very good and much better than others I stumbled on. I have now come back three times to your page. Hope this following is constructive.
May I suggest (as a total beginner -- so fresh to the problems).
Your fingers are going in the OPPOSITE direction to mine and my brain as I look at you.If you want to copy someone else's exam answer it is really difficult upside down and back to front - much easier to look out the corner of your eye or over their shoulder.
So I am instinctively reversing as you put auto shift into D. to go forward so it is a major block to picking up your fingering.
Praps if you filmed it sideways then I would be able to sync up and down more easily.
Even better if shot OVER your shoulder -- it is the message not the face that matters ( Francis of Assisi). I would double the speed of my learning curve.
All beginners try to get ahead of the curve so I had a stab at lesson number two.
Same issue of bi directional brains working against each other.
(Imagine teaching someone to strike a baseball by showing a film in reverse with the ball going BACK from the bat to the pitcher...
OK - lesson two's second issue is that I lose you after the third or fourth move. I cannot loop and slow youtube (unless I pay 60 dollars for one of the softwares out there).
BUT you could go far slower - the tune tempo will come later.As teachers say to the pupil - don't worry about the melody for the moment.... YOU may think you start slow (sure it is slow for YOU)but that is not the case for me...and then when you speed up 'slowly' it is death - the dummy learner (me) stares like a rabbit at fingers everywhere (and back to front..)and cannot reverse play and restart before you are off again!
So blow and play a long note each time (say two seconds) you move a finger then one can see how you 'jump' between notes and I have time to copy..like a quarter speed Dies Irae....
You are very good at lifting your fingers clear for the dummies to see but sometimes (second move of first 'slow' movement in Lesson 2) several fingers are moving at once and all are not on or off holes, just wiggling and I cannot see which wiggle to follow...
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This advice is only good till I have finally picked up the tune...cause by then I will not even think about these problems ...but I too must think about future beginners and increasing the popularity of your page -- see how discerning I am....
Just to complicate things I am learning on a six-key 19th century flageolet - which is just the same as a tin whistle holewise but with keys on top of extra holes for sharps and flats yet it is in perfect tune with your whistle!
So what key did u say your whistle was in please? Then I will know my flageolet key..
Thanks of course where many thanks are due!! I can now almost play half an octave (tho down when you go up! Honest. Non mendacium, sed mysterium ....)
Not trying to be anon, just I don't have a google name.
rgds and keep whistling slower so I can get to the next lessons faster -- so enjoyable
Whistle ++ -
Google Swaledale Squeeze and Arran Squeeze -- could be enlightening and entertaining as you must certainly be expert for the first (select group like the Venerabilee) and enjoy the dummies and experts at Swaledale which is a much bigger gathering. Swaledale 2009 details are awaited but some time in May.Keep an eye on concertina.net or which assume you know...
International Concertina Association (ICA)
www.concertina.org/
This is in response to your most recent (excellent) post about grief and loss, since you have disabled comments there and since it seems that maybe your email link is not working.
I have been writing about the loss of my 24yo son in September and about some of the issues you raise, here and in my regular blog, linked there. I offer it only because I know what it has meant to me to have others with who to share this experience and, for what it's worth, other people seem to find the blog writing meaningful. Perhaps there is something in one of them that would be helpful to your mother or her friend.
You are weclome to link or delete, as you think useful.
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