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{Read} {PDF EPUB} ~Download Precious Things by SP the Precious Things We Keep Nearby {Read} {PDF EPUB} ~download Precious Things by SP The Precious Things We Keep Nearby. In drawers and cupboards, on desktops and shelves, in pockets and purses, we keep precious items. Pencils, rocks, shells, boxes, pennies, bells, rings, and things—they are special and precious. Things we keep at home, and things we might not leave home without. In Night , Elie Wiesel’s clear and horrifyingly true story of his evacuation from a Hungarian ghetto and imprisonment in Auschwitz, Wiesel remembers a prisoner playing a Beethoven sonata on the violin. “Never before had I heard such a beautiful sound. In such silence.” Someone kept a violin in Auschwitz? Grace has a sinister side. Amidst humans marching to gas chambers, a violin holds a note of humanity. It’s not the violin that’s incomprehensible. It’s that this man kept it close. When we keep things close, they catch in our gravity, sit in our orbits. We share forces like power, identity, memory. Things we cannot possibly abandon. Above all memory. Little joggers of places, moments, and words that happened. Our past selves, other people. I keep a small ceramic pot full of waxy orange stamp ink. It was my grandmother’s, bought it in China fifty years ago. When I was young I used to put my finger in it and touch things, spreading beautiful orange, enraging her to no end. Grandma died years ago, but the pot remained in Grandpa’s home. My grandfather died this year and I requested the pot. A childhood print was still in the ink. A witness of the past. I keep it close. Writer Dani Shapiro maneuvers us around her nearby precious things in her memoir Still Writing : My desk is covered with talismans: pieces of rose quartz, wishing stones from a favorite beach, essential oils with names like concentration and focus and inspiration—the kind I might have laughed at when I was younger… All that stuff is there to remind me to stay in the present. I keep a wide orbit of preciousness. Pictures, stones, beads, an arrowhead, dried flowers, seeds, pine cones, small mirrors, elephant-shaped paperclips, tassels, things purple. When I moved into my first apartment, my mom packed my precious things in a box she labelled “Treasures.” The movers got a kick out of that. Since moving to England, I’ve collected a few small ceramics. Hard, smooth, always cold with achingly tender widths. They give me comfort. Touch is critical to connecting. Precious ceramics by Isobel Egan. Photograph by Ellen Vrana. My husband keeps lamb’s ears ( Stachys byzantina ) in his closet. He touches it absently while choosing a tie. It calms him, the touch and the act of touching. Connecting. Neurologist Oliver Sacks writes fondly of a rock collection. Not the talismans most of us gather but specific elements of the periodic table. Minerals, like a bottle of mercury. I have tended since early boyhood to deal with loss […] by turning to the nonhuman. […] Times of stress throughout my life have led me to turn, or return, to the physical sciences, a world where there is no life, but also no death. These precious things we keep nearby hold our vast emotions with ease. They are vessels for the things we can’t carry and can’t abandon. And after we’re gone, they will speak of us. James Oughtibridge’s ceramic maquettes. Photograph by Ellen Vrana. In an emotional and empathetic exploration of the “human death anxiety,” psychiatrist Irvin Yalom urges connection as a way to overcome our fears of nothingness: 1. This nothingness, what Vladimir Nabokov called “eternity of darkness” weighs heavy on many minds. Trying to make sense of the short time we have, trying to understand the limitations of life. Read more from physicist Alan Lightman, journalist and atheist Christopher Hitchens and my own look at the limits of our knowledge when it comes to death and eternity. 1. “There is a biological fear that is hardwired into us. I know this fear is inchoate—I’ve experienced it too. It doesn’t have words. But every living creature wishes to persist in its own being.” We are connected deeply to our precious things because they persist when we cannot. We might not know where we exist beyond death, but we know these things will persist on earth. This is all perfectly healthy and natural and human. However, we must take care these connections don’t stand in for human connections. When French travel writer Sylvain Tesson forwent civilization to spend six months in Siberia, he formed strong connections to things. Simple, needless things that suddenly became crucial. Is this because he was missing people? An object that has been with us through the ups and downs of life takes on substance and a special aura; the years give it a protective patina. To learn to love each one of our poor patrimony of objects, we have to spend a long time with them. […] As the nature of objects reveals itself, I seem to pierce the mysteries of their essence. I love you, bottle… I love you, bottle… more than I love anyone else? Precious ceramics by Yuta Segawa. Photograph by Ellen Vrana. In drawers and cupboards, on desktops and shelves, in pockets and purses, precious things we keep nearby. Requiring nothing but place, they give us memory, calmness, comfort, and infinite, welcoming capacity. 2. From Pablo Neruda’s wonderful Ode to Things : “I love all things, not because they are passionate or sweet-smelling but because, I don’t know, because this ocean is yours, and mine: and these buttons and wheels and little forgotten treasures, fans upon whose feathers love has scattered its blossoms, glasses, knives and scissors- all bear the trace of someone’s fingers on their handle or surface, the trace of a distant hand lost in the depths of forgetfulness.” 2. They don’t, however, give us each other. “Darling, I now have a butter dish shaped like a cow,” Leonard Cohen announces almost wistfully in his Book of Longing. Precious Things. "Precious Things" was written during the second phase of creating Little Earthquakes, a period that also yielded "Girl", "Tear in Your Hand", and "Little Earthquakes". This batch of songs was recorded in Eric Rosse's home studio. After the initial version of Little Earthquakes was rejected by Atlantic Records, Tori and Eric went on a trip through the American West. Tori came up with the song's riff while sick in the Rocky Mountains, noting that the riff "started building in my head. I think I had been forming it before we left . But everything came together when I got really ill in the Rockies. And I think layers were coming off my life -- shields that I had built up in order to filter things". [1] At her VHS Storytellers concert in 1998, Tori recounted that "Precious Things" "came to me while I was living behind a church. I had a roommate that listened to really raucous music and it started to take me into flashbacks of my grandmother. So, behind this church with this music going on and on in my head, I started to really think that maybe just one day I could run faster." (VHI Storytellers) The bridge of "Precious Things" references the band Nine Inch Nails by name. Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor provided backup vocals for "Past the Mission" on Tori's subsequent record Under the Pink . When asked whether Reznor knew about the reference, Tori stated that " Other appearances [ edit | edit source ] Comic Book Tattoo [ edit | edit source ] A five-page story inspired by "Precious Things" was included in the 2008 graphic novel anthology Comic Book Tattoo, a collection of short comics inspired by Amos' songs. [2] "Precious Things" was written, pencilled, inked and lettered by Emma Vieceli and coloured by Faye Wong. [3] Viecelli later cited being invited to do the piece as one of the proudest moments of her career. [4] Page from "Precious Things". Live performances [ edit | edit source ] The first recorded performance of "Precious Things" took place at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1991. The song has been played during all of Tori's tours since; [5] Matt Mazur of PopMatters referred to "Precious Things" as "[p]ossibly the most performed song of Tori's career" in 2012. [6] "Precious Things" has gone through several incarnations over the years, including on the Dew Drop Inn Tour in 1996. During this tour, according to Mazur, "the song morphed into something far more sinister and discomfiting" than its previous live performances and "marked the arrival of the difficult-to-listen-to animalistic growl that replaced the word “girl” and the impossible-not-to-watch clawing of her thighs en route to her crotch . [c]oupled with a child-voiced Amos whispering “Wash me clean, Daddy” before barking the song to a close". [7] A full-band version of the song debuted during the 1998 Plugged Tour, a version replicated by Tori on her subsequent band tours in 2002-2003 and 2007, where it became a fixture of her show's encores. [8] Mazur notes that this arrangement of "Precious Things" was altered for the 2009 Sinful Attraction tour, "calling to focus a new instrumental call-and-response with her band as she geared up for the bridge, brilliantly allowing both artist and audience to breathe in a few moments of calm all knew would not last long". [9] (pompadours) During the 2011 Night of Hunters Tour, the song was arranged for the Apollon Musagete Quartet, a version on which Mazur claims Tori "finally achieved the song’s cinematic potential, her piano back at the forefront and shrill, wayward string plucks and moans insidiously getting under the skin of the song better than any guitar ever could".
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