The "Indigo Children" have arrived

At a coffee shop in New York one morning two weeks ago, David Minh Wong, 7, was in constant motion. He played with quarters on the table. He dropped them on the floor. He leaned on his mother and walked away.

"Tell him I'm strong," he said to his mother, Yolanda Badillo, 50. She sat in a booth with a neighbor.

"I woke up at 2:16 this morning, and it wasn't raining," he said. "I'm getting bored."

At David's public school, where he is in a program for gifted and talented second-graders, a teacher told Badillo that he is arrogant for a boy his age, and teachers since preschool have described him as bright but sometimes disruptive. But Badillo, a homeopath and holistic health counselor, has her own assessment. To her, David's traits -- his intelligence, empathy and impatience -- make him an "indigo" child.

"He told me when he was 6 months old that he was going to have trouble in school because they wouldn't know where to fit him," she said, adding that he told her this through his energy, not in words. "Our consciousness is changing, it's expanding, and the indigos are here to show us the way," Badillo said. "We were much more connected with the creator before, and we're trying to get back to that connection."

If you have not been in an alternative bookstore lately, it is possible that you have missed the news about indigo children. They represent "perhaps the most exciting, albeit odd, change in basic human nature that has ever been observed and documented," Lee Carroll and Jan Tober write in "The Indigo Children: The New Kids Have Arrived" (Hay House). The book has sold 250,000 copies since 1999 and has spawned a cottage industry of books about indigo children.

Mood Indigo
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Mood Indigo is a classic jazz composition and song, with words and music by Duke Ellington, Barney Bigard, and Irving Mills.

The main theme was provided by Bigard, who learned it in New Orleans from his clarinet teacher Lorenzo Tio, who called it a "Mexican Blues". Ellington's distinctive arrangement was first recorded by his band for Okeh Records in on 30 October 1930.

According to Amanda Wilde on KUOW, Duke once said he composed this song in 15 minutes, while he was waiting for his mother to finish dinner.

The tune has become a jazz standard.

"Mood Indigo" is at least as often performed as an instrumental as a song, and is often also done mostly featuring the instruments with a short vocal chorus. The number has enjoyed success and many recordings all three ways.
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Mood Indigo

You ain't been blue; no, no, no.
You ain't been blue,
Till you've had that mood indigo.
That feelin' goes stealin' down to my shoes
While I sit and sigh, "Go 'long blues".

Always get that mood indigo,
Since my baby said goodbye.
In the evenin' when lights are low,
I'm so lonesome I could cry.

'Cause there's nobody who cares about me,
I'm just a soul who's bluer than blue can be.
When I get that mood indigo,
I could lay me down and die.

I agree completely. My son is bright. He rarely complained about his teachers. He got along well with most of them. The other ones I would tell him 'figure out a way to do well and get along in the class'. He did well in high school and is doing well in college. People need to figure out a way to get along with people in general. Some are difficult and need more work. In the end, we are all we have.

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