Blogging Around

The first comment I posted was on Jenny’s Blog. She did a blog about people with “odd brains.” This really made me think about those kinds of people and how they contribute to our world today. It was a good exercise to try to empathize with “odd brained” people.

I really like your thinking on this! I believe as well that people with special needs are in a way lucky because they see the world in a completely different way then we do. What you said about autism is interesting. I never thought about it that way how they are focused on being good at one specific thing, but that makes a lot of sense. It is like Temple Grandin who revolutionized the way cattle were treated. People with "special needs" maybe should be called people with "special abilities" because in certain ways they are more advanced than we are. This blog post really made me think about people with special needs. Thank you!

My second comment was on Jae’s blog. His blog was about classical musicians in the twenty-first century, and what music they would have liked. This blog really made me think deep about Mozart and try to put myself in his shoes, like he was alive today. It was hard to think about but also fun to try and guess what kind of music he would listen to nowadays!

Hmmmmmm very interesting. This blog has made me consider a lot of possibilities. I personally think that Mozart would be into metal music because of the artistic guitar riffs and complex drum rhythms. If you are going by more personalities I agree that contemporary musicians and Mozart have similar personalities. But music wise they are different. Contemporary music isn't as complex as Mozart's pieces. I don't know if Mozart would have liked simplicity or complexity. Wow, this has really made me think.