Summer
Tape the sound of your baby son crying.
Let him listen to the tape when he is
going through pain as a grown man.
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100 Acorns
It's been 44 years since my book of conceptual instructions, GRAPEFRUIT was first published in 1964.
On 15 June 1968, John Lennon & I planted two acorns for peace at Coventry Cathedral. It was the first of our many Peace 'Events'.
In the summer of 1996, I picked up from where I left off, and wrote 100 ACORNS.
Starting on the 40th anniversary of the Acorn Peace Event on 15 June 2008, I will publish here an 'Acorn' every day for 100 days.
After each day of sharing the instructions, you should feel free to question, discuss, and/or report what your mind tells you.
I'm just planting the seeds.
Have fun.
Love, yoko
June 2008
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- When I count what's wrong with my life, I get totally depressed. When I count the good things, I feel like smiling and I do. Then I think, "well, it's not all that bad." Life is just a bowl of cherries. But when I see myself smiling in the mirror, I like myself more. Well, life is a roller-coaster. That's what I now think. Recently, I got a message that I was a king, and I should stop the battle, and appreciate my victory. Well, I should listen to this one. And you, too, my friend. We are all kings. The battle is the battle of goodness winning WORLD PEACE. At all times, find something that makes you laugh. Laughter is the best workout! Chimpanzees are wise to it. Are you?
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9 comments:
I wish I could have been able to record my daughter's voice as a baby. But for now, I cherish her voice.
Beautiful, Beautiful, Beautiful, Beautiful Boy.
Our first six years are the years that have a major impact on our lives. The pain is already recorded within the cells of our bodies. If we can understand what happened when we were younger we would be able to solve many an emotional problem as we grow ............. regression and rebirth
Bringing life to this plane is a major responsibility, this can never be taken lightly ............. in other words we are responsible for the growth and development of Humanity, moulding the future.
I would tape the sound of my baby son laughing to bring joy in a moment of pain.
This is especially poignant since I have an 8-year-old son. We did record sounds when he was a baby, including crying. I pray when he is a grown man and hears himself as a baby that it will bring back good memories and make him happy.
I don't know if you wanted to make us laugh, but I laughed when I read this sound piece.
I heard my cries as a child in my laughter too.
A documentarian "Krapp's Last Tape". Quite clever.
Summer can be a hostile season with its overbearing heat and stultifying humidity, Spring is when we grow. Summer when we are grown and possibily blosssoming. I used to understand the seasons very well. I felt real close to them. i try to go back that closeness from time to time. It is a desire. I have a greater desire to be close to nature than to have a son. I have no children. Yes yes. I see that this might be the closest link we could have withi nature. But i didn' trust myself and didn't trust the planet or those who seek to govern it. I trust the planet now. Such reflections show my own growth. Amazing how time flies. As a man i expect to have less pain than the pains i experienced as a child. I have more withal about me. More to be able to cope with. Strengths i didn't have then when maybe i was lost and confused and completely bewildered with the world and its rules and non compliance, my loneliness and isolation, the abuses we suffered. My tears are often silent. I am not sure wheni stopped bawling. I don't cry like that anymore though. But should there be a record of my baby cry maybe i would know that i used to hurt a lot more, that the world used to be a more fearful place, darker. Maybe if i was in pain as a man, maybe then it would be useful to understand it was worse once upon a time. Though sadly i have occassion to hear my voiceon tape and i cannot bear to tolerate it. Maybe i wouldn't be able to tolerate my baby self crying either. But having said this i can imagine a more devastating pain as an adult. I wonder should i have to cope with loss if i could do it.
Very interesting Idea.
I keep wishing to have recorded the sounds and actions of my younger siblings (I have 8)
to show them when they are older.
To look back on such things makes one think.
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