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Would you reluctantly respond? Turn away? Or start dancing? (me? I hope I'd start dancing...).
This was one of three examples of Beauty in Banal Settings that Sue Pelletier of the MeetingsNet blog wrote about this week. Though she aims her contemplation points at meeting planners and speakers, her suggestions apply to us all:
Think about settings, think about audience, think about expectations, think about context, think about surprise, and think about how what you can do to bring beauty that in turn will bring delight to your attendees.
Debra Roby blogs her art at A Stitch in Time and her life at Deb's Daily Distractions .
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Lia April 21, 2007 - 2:33pmOh, yes, how wonderful to hear the music in a setting that is all too silent of conversation and saturated with just noise. Certainly you would be up there dancing!
The video reminded me of one of the most magical experiences I had about four years ago, while travelling in a train in northern Germany with my children. A group of women and children got on the train and sat in the same almost-empty train car with my children and I. They were the members of an African women's choir and they started singing/rehearsing beautiful African songs while the train chugged along. The women sung beautifully, outside the window, the May rap fields were in bloom, the sun was shinning (a rarity in this part of Germany), and I had the feeling of being transported into a rarefied experience through the women’s song. Bliss.
lia from luebeck, germany
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