Rotary Perception • Posts Tagged ‘Coal Harbour Community Centre’

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I’d have to say, one of my better decisions in life has been to live next door to the Coal Harbour Community Centre. For the first 5 years in the neighbourhood, we only went there to vote or for the odd wedding but, since Trajan’s come along, we barely ever string three days in a row together without a trip to the Gymboree or one of the other great programs they’ve got for kids.
Even better yet, thanks to the Gymboree, we don’t need to figure out where to stuff one of these cars in our apartment!

Via Flickr:
I’d have to say, one of my better decisions in life has been to live next door to the Coal Harbour Community Centre. For the first 5 years in the neighbourhood, we only went there to vote or for the odd wedding but, since Trajan’s come along, we barely ever string three days in a row together without a trip to the Gymboree or one of the other great programs they’ve got for kids.

Even better yet, thanks to the Gymboree, we don’t need to figure out where to stuff one of these cars in our apartment!

"There was once a word used---swing. Swing went in one direction, it was linear, and everything had to be played with an obvious pulse and that's very restrictive. But I use the term 'rotary perception.' If you get a mental picture of the beat existing within a circle, you're more free to improvise. People used to think the notes had to fall on the center of the beats in the bar at intervals like a metronome, with three or four men in the rhythm section accenting the same pulse. That's like parade music or dance music. But imagine a circle surrounding each beat-each guy can play his notes anywhere in that circle, and it gives him a feeling he has more space. The notes fall anywhere inside the circle, but the original feeling for the beat isn't changed. If one in the group loses confidence, somebody hits the beat again. The pulse is inside you. When you're playing with musicians who think this way you can do anything. Anybody can stop and let the others go on. It's called strolling…." ---Charles Mingus, Beneath the Underdog