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This just in: The magic of music

The magic of music
The magic of music

My friend, mentor, and teacher, Ed Freeman, posted this image a few weeks ago and it really resonated with me. I’m now digging into Oliver Sack’s book Musicophilia. The book explores the neuroscience of music and all of the unknown reasons why music resonates so deeply with us.

Have you ever noticed that a song can take us back in time, that it can remind us of someone, something, or some place that we haven’t thought about in years? Music stores memories and unlocks them for us. I like to think of that power as the truest form of magic. Play on.

creativity

This just in: Happily drowning in art

A forest of color and light
A forest of color and light

Whenever I feel the need to get away from it all, I lose myself in art. Photographs, paintings, books, theater, music, writing. Any or all of that transports me to somewhere new. It provides an escape that helps me find my way. Art lets me leave my troubles behind, at least for a while. It clears my head and my heart by opening my eyes and ears to a new world of possibilities.