Continue Reading Southern Rites “What do I want? Why do I want it? And how do I get it?” – Stacey Abrams, in a TED talk…
Continue Reading Our Place, Lit Up. “The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.” Rosa Parks, who would have been 107 yesterday. Let’s just look at the BRIGHT…
Continue Reading Our Place in the Struggle of the World It is Tuesday morning after the debacle in IOWA. We don’t know the caucus results yet, but the delay and the mistrust…
Continue Reading Our Place in the Fabric of the World The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to…
Continue Reading Image before sound It’s Friday January 31, 2020, the end to an insanely wet, politically distressing week. It is the day of Brexit and the…
Continue Reading Sound and Spirit So far this week I have talked about the way sound can affect you, enrich you and bring you closer to the…
Continue Reading Sound Analogies I like each and every sound in a concert hall before and during a performance. The coughing, the rustling of cough drop…
Continue Reading Sound Description Sometimes a piece of writing makes me drool. This, for example: “The piece of music I have in mind lasts only forty-five…
Continue Reading Sound Variations Let’s start this week on a quiet note. Like really quiet, preparing for silence in space – quiet. Not a random choice…
Continue Reading Yom Hashoa 2020 Monday will be Holocaust Remembrance Day. Since words fail me, 75 years after the liberation of Auschwitz, I’ll add up some numbers….
