Or like Korean classical music. I was a drummer once for a kaeyegum player, and being a drummer wasn't just a matter of keeping the beat. You had to vary how many extra strokes you 2. put, say, in a particular bar. Some beats sounded best if you syncopated them and didn't hit the
It makes it easier to deal with the ups and downs as they come. You don't have to go up with the ups, or down with the downs. You learn how to keep the mind on an even keel. Like that story they tell of, I think he was a Korean monk or a Japanese monk, accused by a woman of getting her pregnant. When the accusations came, he said, "Is that ...
Someone once traced a sweatshirt from Uzbeki cotton, through Iranian mills and South Korean factories, and finally showing up in a Gap warehouse in Kentucky. And that's just clothing. It goes all over the world a couple of times before it gets to you, just to meet your need for protection against the elements.