Sometimes I think a lot about these posts and sometimes, okay most of the time, I just spout out whatever is ready to fall out of my brain into the virtual paper. Such a contrast to the work with the Uplift blog. We may have 3 or 4 of those written several weeks before posting. Still, it’s not unusual for some new things to be added closer to publish date. Also, still, it’s not usual that even after reading and re-reading it over and over, we miss an obvious typo or error in fact, last last week when we messed up on Juneteenth’s date. That’s not true, we know exactly the correct date. We mis-read the calendar.
All that is sort of a preface to this week’s post over there. It’s on how not only do we need others to reach our maximum humanity, sometimes, in fact often, we need some of those in our circle to be our opposites. Hold that thought and now add this. Over the weekend I saw a short video done by a record producer and why he thinks “God Only Knows” is the perfect song.
Now that I have you completely confused, let me explain.
We can all agree “God Only Knows” is a perfect song. Intricate harmonies, unique orchestration, surprising use of the French horn, recognizable but subtle baseline. But what makes all those things so memorable, so perfectly memorable, is that each component of the song – intro, verse, bridge, tag – has something that doesn’t belong. An odd inversion, a baseline off key to the melody, a raised fourth. Things that shouldn’t be there. If you take them away, it turns boring, just another song, another forgettable song.
The point is that we need the contrary pieces in life. We need the balance, the roundness, the fullness, that diverse thinking and background, and aspirations bring to our lives.
I could have changed this week’s Uplift to include some of that and between now and then I might, but I know you guys appreciate my weirder comparisons, so I figured this was a better thing to put out into the blogosphere here. So I did. But don’t forget to stop by the ROAMcare site this Wednesday to see the more conventional comparisons.
Short, true. Better than what I might have written considering what the indiot-in-chief has been doing this week. True again. You’re welcome.
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Funny you’d mention an obvious typo… I stumbled over a blog post someone had written in 2011 and I’d left a comment. At first I was tickled to see that I’d joined in the conversation back then when I was shy, but upon a closer look I saw that my comment had a typo. That has been hanging out there for 14 years. 😵💫
Sounds like me for sure! Think not of it as a typo for people to see for 14 years but an eccentric spelling variation one of you style is proud to have put on display for the more common spellers of the world. Besides, we all know that imperfection is the hallmark of beauty!
I like your slant on this!
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I don’t have the musical understanding you have, so I didn’t know about the things that didn’t belong in that Beach Boys’ song. But I do know I enjoy it. And the fact that we need the contrary in our lives to give us fullness is so true. We can’t be all we can be if there isn’t someone and something so different from who we are. The beauty of difference is how it spotlights the possibilities of all people, how we are better with each other than without our uniqueness. An entirely vanilla world would be so boring and bland! And typos are mere reminders that we’re not perfect.
So true so true, without the contrast, how do we know who and what we are and what we’re capable of. I just mentioned in my response to Ally’s comment, imperfection is the hallmark of beauty! It’s also a good impetus for us to continue to grow and improve.
I so agree! Imperfection is also the sign that we’re still in process! We’re not done yet!
We need the contrary pieces in life. Fascinating, as always, Michael!
Indeed we do. Thank you Wynne!