Essay | ...from the heart of the ocean
I have to share this: Early this morning I call (phone) my best friend...he's 75...a true genuine artist.
We exchanged general life's thoughts. Man to man like we always do here @ WBF.
He's a direct man, doesn't shy of speaking his mind.
If I would have recorded our conversation I would have share it here with you all, from an online audio recording.
Anyway, the essence came to that: Time. Let us take the time and speak if we feel to with words that are uniting and harmonizing.
Take this situation as an opportunity to build a stronger forum, with the acceptance of who we are all.
? This one I consider very important: He said; don't try to impose or preach your own preaching philosophy.
Let these guys (Amir, Steve, Tom and Lee) take the time to resolve their differences...space and time.
His name is Will, a regular guy. But with a powerful vision, about life, and death too.
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I have a good memory; we talked for roughly 22 minutes...more or less, and we directly addressed roughly nine subjects.
...Very good life's subject.
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I want to put stuff behind, stuff from here...@ WBF. ...Because it's better.
I want to reborn as a better man. ...Because it's better.
Amir, I have the highest esteem towards you. I want to keep building that esteem. I feel deeply what you must be going through, and I don't question how you express yourself but respect your deep feelings.
Steve, I want to reach out. ...And not feel my broken heart anymore...but share with you our common passion...films, and music, and singers...all they bring emotionally. Plus tomorrow night is Oscar night; we, for both of us and other members here, is one of our deep roots...the art of filmmaking and its rewards.
I also want to apologize directly to you for losing the foundation of human control; I broke down and spoke of you harshly behind your back.
Tom, I also want to apologize to you for having second thoughts and doubts, and having judgement without consideration.
Lee, I feel fairness, like with Jack, Ron and Tim.
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Me too I'm just doing my job, and it's to get all of us on track. ...Respect and accept all our uniqueness and grow stronger and better with it all.
I want to put stuff behind and move forward as all better men. That's how I feel and want to simply share...without any prejudice, and for the best advancement of OUR forum to all of us. I cherish the cyber friendship that I learn to cultivate slowly here with many human souls, real people like I.
Mike Lavigne I consider like a pillion of WBF foundation. ...All the ultra high end music lovers are my essential food...from their spoken words, knowledge, experience in high end audio, trust of their listening ears in their rooms and other rooms.
PeterB I missed deeply, and I forgive past spoken words.
And I'm all for Science, with measurements. I'm a long-time subscriber of Stereophile and subjective and objective audio/music analysis is my daily food.
John Atkinson, Kal Rubinson, Michael Fremer, Gordon Holt, Tom Norton, all the other audio writers and contributors I followed them for the last forty-five years.
The Abso!ute Sound, ...Harry Pearson...all that jazz.
Alan Sircom from Hi?Fi+ I'm also a subscriber, everything...including the music section @ the end.
So many people...Amir's partners @ HK. ...His technical writings @ Widescreen Review...
So many more that I've been reading since the late sixties, ...I have more audio/video magazines in my "mansion" than Donald Trumps's all TV appearances!
Donald should be a Hollywood star, an actor.
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So you have it, basically, essentially the music score. ...Put stuff behind, forgive the hurt done (nothing can reverse that, what is done is done), and I mean that, without forgiveness we don't advance, and take that time of true forgiveness to make this forum the best that it could possibly be with all the members, contributors, guests, moderators and administrators.
And the best thing? ...There is no rush...time is our best ally. And if we die before, no big deal because we'll pass the flame to the next generation.
So, do we want to pass a dead torch, or a flamboyant baton with a flame of best hope @ its end? ...Choice's ours. ...And it started one trillion years ago, and we are 7.35 billion people living on this planet. We're just an invisible blip in the picture, but we can make it visible if we really want to. ...Takes more than Amir and Steve and Tom and Lee; takes their own resolutions plus all of ours.
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Will said to me; Robert, speak your good meaning words, or stay out of it. After clear reflection I selected the former.
And just few days ago I needed to step out...I wanted out.
I am nothing, I am nobody if I cannot respect and listen and understand the people around me. And I am nothing and I am nobody if I cannot speak to them always with respect...publicly and privately and even more privately...in my mind, heart and soul.
No one is perfect, and me the first. My heart is honest and sincere though, and my passion for music and films and nature and the Arts in general is true and genuine.
And I believe the same for everyone else in the forums that I frequent of the World Wide Web, including here...my most fundamental home and esperanza.
Fly high, fly above all with all.