I am not forgetting
I'm just letting go
said one of my favorite Greek gods
to me on the phone
I turn on the TV and check the news
only to see bloodshed and tears
In an act of desperation
I try to invoke your image
but you won't appear
desolate snippets and broken cues
... not forgetting, just letting go...
My Greek god left me
and I can't stop the wars
with my mind
anymore
Friday, December 23, 2016
Tuesday, December 13, 2016
the negative to the positive
How many lost memories are in this universe? How many moments which "lasted forever" are long gone and forgotten? A memory is perfect, in that it remains untainted, untarred by the passing turmoil of corporeal life. But as the past's crust hardens, remembering becomes painful. Like tearing into a stubborn tangerine with the flat part of your thumb, you startle at the durability of its skin. This resistance brings a faint glimpse of the realization that the threshold into the past is more and more out of reach. Just like many a nice memory, you want to hold it, squeeze out all its juice. For sometimes, reality is just too cruel. Or inconvenient... As your finger presses feverishly through the orange peel, you feel the cold, familiar rush of the fruit's wet inner life, relieving the pain caused upon your overworked thumb. Like a drug, it offers relief, easing out the tension, temporarily untying the knots of your own disturbed soul. For a moment, the contrast is so great, like in a black-and-white photograph: ironically, a relic of the past. From shade to light, white to black, pain to shelter, present to past. How much can one take this abruptness? For how long can one hold on to a memory, to the negative of an unyielding present? or perhaps the positive? Well, perfection is neither positive nor negative, it should not matter in the end. And yet... The further the memory drifts off, the more difficult it is to conjure it. Such perfection should not be touched, we say to ourselves. We will let it live on its own terms, somewhere in the undefined parts of our brain; there is enough storage room for all which is perfect. We will not let it affect our everyday life, our imperfection. So... Is perfection really necessary? does it find a place in our lives? They say that the true sign of love is when you start liking someone's blemishes, or... imperfections. Presence is stronger than the absence, yet the lack of presence sometimes overpowers its negative, in which case it becomes the presence. So when presence is negative and anti-presence is positive, everything which isn't becomes great! What a sad realization... The tangerine stands untouched on the table, its crust hardening by the second. On the outside, nothing ever changes, yet inside is the unattainable perfection of a Dali painting... or of a dream... or of a memory... of you.
Saturday, December 3, 2016
Neue Prüfungsordnung in der Musikschule
Der Alltag kann manchmal fad und undankbar sein, vor allem wenn man den Beruf des Lehrers praktiziert. Unterricht, Prüfungen, Klassenkataloge und Reiserechnungen sind der Grund für manch einen viel zu frühen Burnout. Insofern habe ich mich entschlossen, meine Arbeit lustig und interessant zu gestalten, indem ich eine neue Prüfungsordnung, die einstimmig akzeptiert wurde, eingeführt habe:
Die Übertrittsprüfung
kann X an der Gemeinde ablegen. Derer Ausgestaltung hängt unausweichlich von
der Laune und Stimmung der Prüfungskommission ab. Seinen Mangel an Technik kann
er durch seine feine Musikalität nicht ausgleichen. Alles muss perfekt sein. Nach
seinem Spiel wird ein Gespräch gehalten und anschließend ein Prüfungsprotokoll
angefertigt. X.s Teilnahme an der Prüfung setzt einen fiktiven, abgelegten
Theoriekurs voraus, den er 10 Minuten vor der Prüfung und vor Ort und Stelle
mit seinem Lehrer durchführen muss. Eine Einwandfreie und umformungslose
Wiedergabe des gelernten Stoffes wird vom Prüfling erwartet, wobei er
unbestimmte, undeutlich formulierte Aufgaben vornehmen soll. Seine Gesamtnote
wird die Prüfungskommission dann seiner Hingabe und Begeisterung zugrunde
legen. Gefordert wird darüber hinaus Ehrgeiz und Konkurrenzgeist. Jedoch werden
weiche Charakterzüge und seltsame Persönlichkeitsmerkmale besonders positiv
gewichtet.
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