THE PHILOSOPHER'S LYRE, a set of 11 pieces, in two parts...

THE PHILOSOPHER’S LYRE Philosophy? It only takes one bad idea to destroy a man, or woman, or even an entire civilization. Philosophy is not just something we think about; it is something that we do—a practice—like music or yoga. It goes after the contradictions, the misplaced, broken strings, and tunes and retunes its lyre religiously, each day, to the ground of truth. Philosophy sings its songs in the open—honest, naked, direct—and simply listens to how the sound resonates as it rings out, into the Universe. PART I "Music? The one thing humans do that makes the rest of Nature jealous..." (1) THE PHILOSOPHER'S LYRE (2) THE GOOD & THE BAD, a set of six miniatures (3) DIFFERENCE (4) THE VIOLIN & THE NORWEGIAN SPRUCE, a love song, for Carl SAGAN (5) BORDER WALL, with Simone de HAAN, trombone (6) POD, finding resonance with the songs of whales, with Simone de HAAN, trombone PART II "Even I turn, with my religion without a name..." (7) DARKNESS, on a poem by Lord BYRON (8) AN EXTINCTION OF A DIFFERENT KIND (9) SUNSIGHT, for R. Buckminster FULLER (10) WEEDS, part I (11) FLOWERS, parts I, II & III DOWNLOAD the much smaller but high quality mp3 [76Mb] for free at: picture-poems.com/mp3/the-philosopers-lyre_set.mp3