Summer Solstice, 21 June. Longest day of the year. We observe International Yoga Day on this day.
India loses the first test in the Anderson-Tendulkar England-India Test Series. Despite Pant’s two centuries as Vice-Captain, and Gill’s century as Captain.
R Praggnanandhaa, 19, with a 2778 FIDE rating, is now India’s No.1 ranked; world’s fourth, ahead of Gukesh and Arjun.
Music. Music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise expressive content. A cultural universal, present in all human societies. Highly versatile medium for expressing human creativity. An important part in an individual’s private, social and cultural life. Composition, improvisation, and performance. Using a wide variety of musical instruments, including the human voice. Could be mechanical, or electronic too. Includes: songwriters, performers, sound engineers, producers, tour organizers, distributors of instruments, accessories, and publishers of sheet music and recordings. It includes instruments for production, recording, reproduction – sheet music, microphones, phonographs, tape machines, digital players, smart phones et al.
Gurukulam – Residential school has taught music. Music, music education, appreciation, and practice help in one’s full development. Entertainer, calmer, celebrator, healer, and spirit. Spiritual. Together with dance. Raga, Tala, Natya in tandem. With elements/dimensions including: Pitch, note, duration, beat/pulse, meter, tempo, rhythm, melody, tune, harmony, texture, style, voice, tone, scale, mode, timbre/colour, dynamics, expression, articulation, form, structure, notations. Frequency. Basslines, chords. Songs, verses, chorus. Classical, Folk, Popular. Indian, Chinese, Eastern, Western.
Public service. Supporting communities, serving others, and protecting the rights and interests of the public. Through non-profit organizations, civil society, philanthropy, government organizations, governments and community organizations. Education, literacy, libraries, e-literacy, health, livelihoods, employment-engagement, skilling, enterprises, financing, microfinancing, wellbeing, environment, climate, community, collectives, agency, arts-crafts, culture, local governance, services, utilities, water-energy, waste management, etc., legalese, research, policy, rights, peace et al.
Quiet quitting. Barely showing up for work; not coming up with new ideas; not being proactive; not putting our best. Quiet cracking, with joint workplace unhappiness, goes one step further – demotivating environment, disengagement, disconnect, poor performance, intensified desire to quit. Unseen, unheard, unsupported. No participation in team activities. It seems – one in five are stuck in this persistent state of workplace unhappiness. And they start looking for alternatives, jobs. Caused by us and our bad managers, leaders, and their lack of direction and vision, a feeling of incapacity. Way out is vision, nudge, inspiration, recognition, skilling, learning et al; or workplace change.
Can we get reenergized, inspired, and driven? Can we get going?
Yes, we can. If we coexist, flowing. Together, energized forward. In N? kshetrajnagitayoga for 7L.