Soul Food

Of course this is so much bullshit that I hear myself cackling like a crone.
So music, art, separates humans as a higher life form. Animals build things for a purpose, they do not create anything for the simple purpose of appreciation.

Oh dear, I’m crying fat tears now. Tears I tell you, tears…
Then you come around and you ask me,
“What is your favorite song, what moves you, what bores into the very fabric of your being?”
Well, the answer my friend (is not blowing in the wind)(but it is in a way)
The answer is bird song.
Oh, my, the sweetest tunes in the universe have hardly ever been recorded. Nobody buys tickets to their daily live show, and nobody mints their original notes as NFTs. What a shame, hey? What a shame…

Have you ever heard a robin trill?

Would the morning be less bright and beautiful without the cacophony of our feathered friends, would the day's orchestra be dry, how would you feel if you woke up each day to a silent world?

How many fantastic pieces of music are simply a combination of the notes stolen from birds?
Go on, I challenge you to think about it.
Do…

Come back to me at twilight my lovely and reminisce about the sweet, sweet music you heard at dawn. Then sit down my darling and write your music, you do not have to give accreditation to the birds. You do not…

Yes, I’m not immune to the combination of human originality that, still, gives my soul wings.
The first time I heard “Kings and Queens” by 40Seconds to Mars, I cried.
The first time I heard “With or Without You” by U2, I cried.
The first time I heard “Nothing Else Matters” by Metallica, I cried. (It was my wedding march song)
The first time I heard anything by Greta Van Fleet, Amy Winehouse, Paloma Faith, Anna Wolf, Birdy, Karen Zoid, Florence and the Machine, I cried.

All have done so well with the foundation the birds had given them.
True Maestros, who had learned, with their sensitive ears, to hear the birds.

Images

https://pixabay.com/photos/robin-bird-on-ast-in-the-garden-818126/

https://pixabay.com/vectors/birds-branch-singing-musical-notes-5765100/
https://pixabay.com/photos/nature-bird-tree-parrots-lecture-3195380/

Quote source

https://www.blueletterbible.org/faq/don_stewart/don_stewart_622.cfm

Man is an aesthetic being, capable of perceiving and appreciating beauty and intangible values. When animals build things, the process and resulting object serve a functional purpose. Animals do not create objects for the purpose of appreciation.