How about that? I didn't even know the world had a yo-yo contest. Jensen is good. The signature line is from the appendix to MMY's Gita, by the way. "Under the influence of maya, Brahman appears as Ishvara, the personal God, who exists on the celestial level of life, in the subtlest field of creation. In a similar manner, under the influence of avidya, atman appears as jiva, or individual soul." - MMY --- On Wed, 8/18/10, TurquoiseB <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote: From: TurquoiseB <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Jackie Evancho To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Wednesday, August 18, 2010, 4:09 AM --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gullible fool <ffl...@...> wrote: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPITHzdUUDk Pretty neat. She takes the simple act of singing and turns it into something more -- singing as art. I see your cool video and raise you one. :-) This one might not at first glance to be in the same ballpark as the one of the 10-year- old opera singer, but I think it's got some phwam, despite the fact that its just footage of a kid playing with a yo-yo. Yeah, right. The way Jackie singing is just a kid singing. This guy, Jensen Kimmitt, is the winner of the 2010 World Yo-Yo Contest. It's one of the simplest toys in the world turned into high art, almost like visual mathematics. Curtis will love this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knYCilujrFM > "Under the influence of maya, Brahman appears as Ishvara, > the personal God, who exists on the celestial level of life, > in the subtlest field of creation. In a similar manner, > under the influence of avidya, atman appears as jiva, > or individual soul." > - MMY As it turns out, I'm spending a lot of time with Maya these days, first in Amsterdam and now in the Luberon area of France. 18-month-old Maya, not the cosmic one. And believe me, there are days where she takes some- thing ordinary (like singing or playing with a yo-yo) and turns it into an artform, too. I just watch her with the same sense of awe and wonder that the two videos invoked. She, living life in the moment and seemingly as if she considers life an artform rather than something to be figured out, reminds me to try to bring that same set of priorities to my own life. ------------------------------------ To subscribe, send a message to: fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links
