This morning’s home lesson featured the keywords ‘fear’ and ‘limitation’. Shakur, Salifah and I had a lovely discussion about the human condition of reduced self-confidence that we all encounter at some point in our lives, but which we become better for challenging and overcoming. We agreed that it is important and necessary in the pursuit of the joys of life to rise above our perceived limitations – to stretch ourselves beyond the enclosure of our comfort zone. This way we become more of who we are meant to be. We looked at real life examples to substantiate our learning. One close to home is that of the late Uncle Bheki Mseleku, the prodigiously gifted South African composer and multi-instrumentalist who at times played the piano (his professed main instrument) and tenor saxophone simultaneously - not as a cheap gimmick, but to express and release the profuse music that flowed through him. The kids remembered that Uncle Bheki had digits missing from two fingers on his right hand, from a childhood accident. But this did not limit his facility to play some of the most mesmerising melodies on the piano. To illustrate this we listened to an incredibly rapid passage from his 1992 solo concert at the Bath Festival called Meditations. At the end of the music Shaki and Sali concurred that Uncle Bheki’s missing digits were not at all a limitation, but maybe even a blessing from beyond to inspire him to go beyond…
Posted on: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 09:08:52 +0000
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