Crossing the Range of Light today to the Eastern Sierras
“Mr. Pereira is far from alone in finding the time ripe for spirituality. In Ms. Moss’s case, at Lincoln Center, spirituality is merely part of a larger concern: transcendence, looking inside yourself.
“There is a huge hunger for more human connections,” said Ms. Moss, who describes herself as “a secular mystic.” “People are looking for larger experiences in a cyberworld” that becomes ever more “like eating candy.”
“Music,” she added, “is going to end up being the only live experience left in the world.’” - NY Times, review of spirituality as a theme in classical music programming.
Conrad writes that the heart of the twentieth century is black.
Maybe it’s that the hearts of men that are always black, at least compromised and paralyzed to choose the good, the kind, the beautiful, the unique.
Another terrible public massacre in a movie theater in Colorado - is there something about that state that I don’t get? Yes, it’s a wild west gun-toting, water starved, fire-scorched state with lots of primitive disenfranchised homophobic white males moping around feeling falsely entitled. It’s also cleaved by its close ties to the military-industrial complex, like much of the interior West, which results in a mind-set of defensive protectiveness, economic self-interest, and a hatred of federal government intervention.
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