I Don't Use Composers. I Research Music

No One Was More Important To The Game Of Baseball In The Last Half Of The 20th Century Than Henry Aaron And No One Writes About That Supremely Talented Man, That Tumultuous Time And This Treasure Of A Game Better Than Howard Bryant. Together, They Are An Extraordinary Combination, And The Book Bryant Has Written Gets To The Heart Of The Complicated And Dignified, Patient And Consistent Genuine Hero That Is Henry Aaron.

I Think We Too Often Make Choices Based On The Safety Of Cynicism, And What We're Lead To Is A Life Not Fully Lived. Cynicism Is Fear, And It's Worse Than Fear - It's An Active Disengagement.

We Strain To Listen To The Ghosts And Echoes Of Our Inexpressibly Wise Past, And We Have An Obligation To Maintain These Places, To Provide These Sanctuaries, So That People May Be In The Presence Of Forces Larger Than Those Of The Moment.

I Have Come To The Realization That History Is Not A Fixed Thing, A Collection Of Precise Dates, Facts And Events (even Cogent Commencement Quotes) That Add Up To A Quantifiable, Certain, Confidently Known, Truth. It Is A Mysterious And Malleable Thing.

We're Having A Hard Time Understanding Where Jazz Is Going. What Happened To Jazz?