Soulful Things

My friends, it is time we got some Soul around here. Just dig it. Now let me relate some advice to you about musicians which was once related to me. When you meet a musician, there is something you must ask, and that is whether that musician has Soul.

"Do you got Soul?" you ask.
"I be down with your groove, Soul-sibling; ain't no one got Soul like me," says the musician.

Then it is possible to say that, yes indeed, the musician is a true musician, full of Soul, for no true musician lacks Soul, which instead overflows in abundance. Then you may both groove righteously into the setting of the sun. So I am told.

"Sjuzhet!"
"Gesundheit! That is, Health! That is, The Living God bless you!"
"Fabula!"

Aristotle tells us that there are three types of Soul: the vegetative Soul, the perceptive Soul, and the rational Soul. The vegetative Soul belongs to trees, which are able to nourish themselves with sunlight and water and things. The perceptive soul belongs to beasts, in addition to the vegetative soul. Beasts have both the power to nourish themselves and to perceive at least some senses, often allowing for independent locomotion. Trees do not do these things, for they lack the proper Soul. A rational Soul has been granted to mankind, and no others. Mankind can not only nourish itself and perceive with the senses, but also mankind can ponder, understand, and create, the latter being the most important. In this way mankind is more Soulful than the beasts and the trees.

Therefore, O friends, it would be better to converse with the musician, or any Artist for that matter, as follows:

"Do you got rational Soul?" you ask.
"I be down with your groove, rational Soul-sibling; ain't no one got rational Soul like me," says the Artist.

Only then do we find the Artist to be truly human. A Norway Spruce or a Squirrel therein would never respond in such a way, not being Soulful enough to do so. May we humbly thank Aristotle for granting us these sensations, that we might understand them, being rationally Soulful.

I am glad you are all so Soulful, my friends.