Let's talk music, no genre boundaries

Lucia Hwong used to be my best friend's girlfriend. She was absolutely beautiful (if you can find a picture of her in the 70's) and the daughter of the actress Lisa Lu, so she had to marry somebody with higher status than my raggedy friend who became a bass player. Her music, posted below, is as beautiful as she.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clapxdtetcc

@stuartk 

I have been a big Tracy Nelson fan for a long time, ever since I heard her sing in the Firehouse in Berkeley. The whole band was good. They ranged from Ray Charles to Tracy doing "Mother Earth." (Posted below). I also saw her later in a country music bar in L.A. When I went up to her to tell her how great I thought she was, she brushed me off as if I were trying to pick her up. I wasn’t. I had a girlfriend at home who didn’t want to go to a sawdust country joint.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt0DZ372cQM

@mahgister 

Meaning is an embodied felt  symbolic form

In art, this has certainly been my experience. I cannot comment on how this applies in math, science or other left-brain-dominant fields. 

Kenneth Rexroth on poetic meaning from chatgbt:

Rexroth believed that poetry should not be reduced to a paraphrasable meaning. In his words:

“The meaning of poetry is experience. The experience of the poem is the poem.”
— Rexroth, "Poetry and Experience"

To Rexroth, a poem isn't about something—it is something. It's a moment of awareness, a lived emotional or intellectual reality.

@audio-b-dog 

I also saw her later in a country music bar in L.A. When I went up to her to tell her how great I thought she was, she brushed me off as if I were trying to pick her up. I wasn’t.

That’s too bad. . . for both of you. I guess it’s indicative of what she had to deal with as a female performer and the less-than-ideal strategies she developed in an attempt to protect herself.