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Tue 11 May, 2004 01:38 pm
This isn't exactly NEW news, but I found it provocative in that it explains why music has as much to do with muscle power as it has to do with brain power and memory:
http://home.bellsouth.net/s/editorial.dll?bfromind=880&eetype=Article&eeid=4173947&render=y&ck=&Table=
RSVP, if you will.
I'm living proof that using a walker is like riding a bicycle--a challenging skill to learn, but once learned it is not forgotten.
Of course for a year or so after I move into a new house I reach for the place that I used-to-keep my paring knife....bathtub soap....reading light....
We talk a lot in Karate about how practice of the kata (prearranged sequences of techniques) leads to creating muscle memory which will render the techniques availble in a stressful situation.
and once we learn to swim, my friends, the rest is simply water.
Hobit, Noddy. Let's hope that one day peace will be as automatic as singing.
Going to my piano, now. Want to keep a promise to someone made so long ago.
Think key of C...and OP....
Remembering with fondness:
Once to Every Man and Nation.........................................