:: JungFroid's Public Journal ::

:: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 ::

Inspiration I find I look for it nowadays, trying to find it in everything I do. Things to motivate, make me feel something. I want to be reminded that I'm alive, that I can be moved by art, music, and people deeply. So I say screw you, gnicklaser! I like that movie quote and felt compelled to share it again, for the first time. Children at a school that we volunteered to perform one of the Filipino dances, the tinikling, for today inspired me. We explained to them what the dance represented, which was that the bamboo poles were like traps for the tikling bird that rice farmers put out for them and that the dancers were like the birds, avoiding the traps. After the dance, we had the most interesting bout of question and answer: Student1: "I liked the dance!" Student2: "Wouldn't the traps break the birds' legs?" Student3: "I really liked the dance...!" Student4: "Did the farmers just wait all day with the poles to catch the birds?" Student5: "I loved the dance!" and last but not least Student6: "What happened to the bird after it was trapped?" Kuyaney (to Filipina526): (whispering) "they let them go?" Filipina526: (nods) Kuyaney: (with renewed conviction) "They let them go!"

:: JungFroid :: 12/11/2002 12:59:00 AM [+] ::
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