Eris crops up in the damnedest places.

I've had a weird sort of depressive day. (I mean, I got so little done that we didn't get around to vegging out and watching movies until nearly midnight.) I don't know if I'm sick or just generally horked; my body temperature regulation is significantly worse than usual, as opposed to merely bad.

And then the changer started playing "Long Way Down", and I thought of posting it as a cryptic Marvin note. ("Oh God, I'm so depressed. . . .")

So I googled for a lyric link.

And found this utterly surreal little jobbie.

The kittens just make it.

Metaphor, Music, and Ma'at

[ Editorial note: Songdragon wants an icon of her own (since most everyone in here who wants one has one that they're happy with); I spent a lot of time today banging on the GIMP (trying to get it to install on my machine, giving up, installing it on the desktop machine, prodding at the way the thing works, and so on) and I have at least a draft of one, and now I'm not using it. Heh. It'll replace the buddha icon whenif we get around to it. ]

I made a comment elsewhere today trying to translate bits of Kemetic stuff into something more generally accessible, and SD and Weaver eventually came up with translating 'ma'at' into 'in tune with the divine harmony' or something roughly equivalent to that.

I want to play with this metaphor. This metaphor is shiny.

Can't have harmony without difference, after all. We're not going for one of those tedious later-period non-jammin' OMs here. And so right out there we've got the whole needfulness of dialogue to maintain and uphold existence. And the possibility of different things, different notes, sounding into a meaningful whole. Ma'at is the principle what organises people into communities.

There's a joke about accidentals in here somewhere.

Harmonies are one of the things that I glom onto in music I hear, that I'm singing. Harmonies and bassline. That's what makes things feel right to me, resonant with my own internal perception of meaningfulness. (I wonder what the bassline is in this metaphor.)