Long & Short NOWs, Food & Concert

On 4/5/05 below I mentioned an experiment to place my awareness one-half second ahead of the relaxed breath (The Half-Second NOW lag).

Today's comment on the above: Since our primary process perception already exists one-half second ahead of the secondary 'ego-grab' -- it's not so much placing our awareness one-half second ahead, but just merging what what is already occurring. I think most of nature and animal awareness lives on that 'front shoulder of the Now wave' already. So we 'relax into pure perception,' and find that the 'I' dissolves -- or never catches up.

Speaking of NOW's both long and short, want to know what Stewart Brand is doing these days?
http://www.longnow.org/10klibrary/Seminars.htm


Is food becoming less nutritious?
January 23, 2005
Posted Dec. 6, 2004 Courtesy the University of Texas at Austin and World Science staff
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/050409_remotefrm.htm
A study of 43 vegetables and fruits suggests their nutritional value has declined in the past 50 years, scientists say. The researchers suggested the decline may result from the fact that farmers have been planting crops designed to improve traits other than nutritional value, such as size.

Two dear friends and talented composers perform their own works:
Good Sound Foundation & Pacifica Performances present a concert of new chamber music by Janis Mattox and Loren Rush - music inspired by the lives and poetry of Italian poet, Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888-1970) and Brazilian poet, Cecilia Meireles (1901-1964).
Saturday, May 14, 7:30 pm & Sunday, May 15, 3:00 pm
The program of premieres includes Solombra (SunShadow) by Mattox - a song cycle on Brazilian poetry about love and loss, sung in Portuguese, and Mattina - a piano trio by Rush which takes its title from the Ungaretti poem describing the beauty of a morning following a night in the trenches of WWI. The program also includes solo piano works by Rush.
The music is performed by Bolivian-American soprano, Katia Escalera (former Adler Fellow with the S.F. Opera), Susan Freier (violin) and Stephen Harrison (cello) of the Ives Quartet, Bay Area piano virtuoso, Matthew Edwards and composer/pianist Loren Rush.
The music on this concert is specifically written for The Enhanced Piano in just intonation and GoodSound Virtual Acoustics, performance technologies developed by Good Sound Foundation.
$20/$15 students/seniors Sanchez Concert Hall, 1220 Linda Mar Blvd., Pacifica, California
Tickets, info, map:http://www.justintonation.net/concerts.html by phone: Pacifica Performances 650-355-1882