tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2766562373419953615.post7219347808324528783..comments2023-02-11T22:25:56.011-08:00Comments on After the Jug Was Broken: Dimastalgia: On The Loss of Traditional SkillsLeah Shelledahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06242948937763810261noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2766562373419953615.post-89402509950694881682014-02-12T17:59:24.138-08:002014-02-12T17:59:24.138-08:00Thank you, Leah... thank you... so agree.
xoxox
...Thank you, Leah... thank you... so agree. <br />xoxox <br />mareAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2766562373419953615.post-6738444717609207102014-02-08T19:26:05.252-08:002014-02-08T19:26:05.252-08:00Patricia, I'm always so happy to receive your ...Patricia, I'm always so happy to receive your insightful, original comments!<br />No ethical matrix indeed!Leah Shelledahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06242948937763810261noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2766562373419953615.post-44667072151979330472014-02-08T18:05:58.711-08:002014-02-08T18:05:58.711-08:00Leah, This is beautiful, if chilling. There is so...Leah, This is beautiful, if chilling. There is so much we can do for which we have no ethical matrix or understanding of the whole. Perhaps only in beauty can we suffer consequences. May our culture learn to count to ten before eliminating such things as handwriting, crafts, the direct experience with the written and created world.Patricia Dameryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08473140041700187473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2766562373419953615.post-29335113381179667392014-02-07T17:20:43.827-08:002014-02-07T17:20:43.827-08:00I think that among our friends, colleagues and acq...I think that among our friends, colleagues and acquaintances there is definitely an interest in traditional arts and music - but I don't at all think it's true of the wider population!Leah Shelledahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06242948937763810261noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2766562373419953615.post-85406132052154597702014-02-07T16:25:12.485-08:002014-02-07T16:25:12.485-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Leah Shelledahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06242948937763810261noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2766562373419953615.post-8826298197264805692014-02-07T14:10:15.342-08:002014-02-07T14:10:15.342-08:00I quite agree with what you just said about humani...I quite agree with what you just said about humanity, Leah. Maybe that's why people keep trying to learn and practice old skills. It also provides a bridge that surpasses time--extending one's own limited span by also living in the practices of peoples from faraway and long ago. Think of how, in music, we take such pleasure in trying to use old instruments and performance practices to put ourselves into what we would like to think is, say, an 18th century space.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06702553835380649914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2766562373419953615.post-15991684330095790802014-02-07T13:06:07.569-08:002014-02-07T13:06:07.569-08:00Dan, thanks for not including "Yes, buts"...Dan, thanks for not including "Yes, buts"! I hope you are right that future generations will take pride and pleasure in continuing the old skills, for I think we not only lost options, but are deprived of our humanity without the arts and crafts that go back to the cave-painters.Leah Shelledahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06242948937763810261noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2766562373419953615.post-72795665132468153562014-02-07T12:58:26.868-08:002014-02-07T12:58:26.868-08:00So very profound. Thank you, Leah. I won't b...So very profound. Thank you, Leah. I won't be a curmudgeon and take my "yes, but..." role this time. Most impressive is what you write about the danger of losing options, losing alternate paths and procedures. Losing the worldviews embodied in other languages. Still, as long as the old skills, the arts and crafts and musics and languages, are still available, new generations do take pleasure in reviving them, mastering them, maybe turning them to new ends. Let's at least to strive for reviving and mastering, even as we regret the fading away of earlier contexts. Good to have "dimastalgia" to add to our lexicon.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06702553835380649914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2766562373419953615.post-89858693827721150682014-02-06T22:25:43.931-08:002014-02-06T22:25:43.931-08:00Dawn, interesting! As though there is no smooth tr...Dawn, interesting! As though there is no smooth transition between cultures, and we literally fall through the crack in our "filing system."Leah Shelledahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06242948937763810261noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2766562373419953615.post-1855291163680842942014-02-06T20:52:36.266-08:002014-02-06T20:52:36.266-08:00Beautifully realized, dear poet of time passing an...Beautifully realized, dear poet of time passing and gifts being lost!<br />It occurs to me that part of my personal dislocations - and those of many people my age that I know, including patients - our memory glitches, placing items and then not finding them, is at least in part connected with our falling between two cultures. Thoughts we used to “file” one way, we now file in the new way, but it is not automatic and taken for granted by us, this new way. And when we aren’t consciously thinking about it, we slip into old ways. And then we are lost.<br /> <br />Dawn Farbernoreply@blogger.com