
The reason for the sudden rise in posts is due to the recent earthquake in Japan which has affected many people and is something that we, those that are at the very least connected to the country in one way or another, can’t just forget. It’s not just some news report that you hear everyday where some number of people have died to some accident, war, disease outbreak, or small scale conflict of whatever cause. The fact that we have a situation where, in the last week or so, has caused a massive crippling in the country. It’s unreal that we’d see as disaster as massive as we have in Japan where an earthquake, tsunami, and a situation where the active threat of nuclear fallout comes in a single day.
And while fears are being immediately manufactured and distributed through sound, through paper, and through light by some of the mouth pieces of the powers that be around within and out of Japan, I’d like to offer something else: a place for minds to hang out and try to relax (operative word: try).
Sure, it could be said to be irresponsible to try to escape the everyday reality, but it’s human nature to have something to hold on to; To clutch mentally to sustain a cool head.
In ancient times, the Greeks thought that music could serve as medicine for the mind and soul. So posting music for people out there in Japan, or anyone in any part of the world that happens to visit here, is a help. A medicine so to speak. It’s not a medicine or a help that is as obviously noticeable as that of sending money, food, or some other form of tangible material to send for support. But it can, at the very least, help out in probably adding a soundtrack to someone’s life. To have a piece of music be the highlighter and – but not a definitive- marker of someone’s life. All the while promoting a possible sense of strength within the person to face daily life amidst the problems around them.
I could only imagine what people are undergoing and I can only offer my sympathies, words, and prayers. May God bless Japan and it’s people.
*note: if you click on the image above it will take you to W+K Studios’s site. They are selling high quality poster prints of shown design in the pic and go for $25.00 USD per print. All proceeds go to the Red Cross.