Lately while going on my daily walks with my wife Sandra I’ve been pondering our Earthly limitations. In my early years, with the mindset “anything is possible”, I never considered that man was so boxed into Earth’s margins.

For example, being a musician, I’m amazed by the limitation of tonality. Be it half-tone, quarter-tone, of fractions there of, the frequency of tones end at the octave then repeat in a new register. I can’t help but marvel at the idea of a tone outside the box.

Consider half-tone music starting with middle “C” – the chromatic sequence then follows – Db, D, Eb, E, F, Gb, G, Ab, A, Bb, B, - then comes alone “C” again in a new octave (but still “C”). Twelve half-tones, twenty-four quarter-tones, forty-eight eighth-tones, etc… No matter how you cut it, it’s going to end at the same point and begin the sequence over again and again, but still contained in our limited physical boundary.

Anyway, I’ve been tormenting my brain trying to hear a tone outside the box, but it just brings frustration and Migraines. What if Earth’s physics would allow some extra unimaginable tones? So instead of our music being based on twelve tones. It was based on fifteen. C Major Scale; C, D, E, F, G, A, B, H, I, J, then “C” again an octave higher.

These limitations seem to exist in every part of our lives. I’ve been trying, to no avail, imagining a new primary color (and what the secondary colors formed from the new primary color would look like). I can’t for the life of me think of anything more than cyan, magenta, and yellow. What would a new primary color look like? Boxed in again.

I read once where man can only make 26 possible sounds for speech. The hard “C” or “K” sound is one. Can you think of all 26, and then add a new one?

Life can be frustrating at times. Maybe I should give up my walks.


Stop analyzing; just compose the damn thing!
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