<p>Bach's "Art of the Fugue" stands alone as an achievement of the human spirit. I have heard that in the former Soviet Union classical music was played over the radio to quell political unrest. For that reason it seems appropriate for any holiday to play music of universal peace and reflection.</p>

Bach's "Art of the Fugue" stands alone as an achievement of the human spirit. I have heard that in the former Soviet Union classical music was played over the radio to quell political unrest. For that reason it seems appropriate for any holiday to play music of universal peace and reflection.

Episode 37: Art of Fugue

John's podcasts and poems are frozen still moments recorded as mental photos that run in the reader's imagination like full films. As both participant and chronicler John removes himself from the action, makes his observations quickly (and hopefully cogently) and then escape. If John is a good observer, he sees things that by themselves are extraordinary revelations about each of us which seem as caricatures rooted in ordinary life and amplified by the focus of each person's mind on the "other" … ourselves. In other words, if a kid is "an indefatigable nose picker with bluster all his own" we get a complex message about human behavior that we got from an unmentionable source: us. Long after hearing  John's podcasts and poems, the scenes he describe live "rent free" in the reader's mind.

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John's podcasts and poems are frozen still moments recorded as mental photos that run in the reader's imagination like full films. As both participant and chronicler John removes himself from the action, makes his observations quickly (and hopefully cogently) and then escape. If John is a good observer, he sees things that by themselves are extraordinary revelations about each of us which seem as caricatures rooted in ordinary life and amplified by the focus of each person's mind on the "other" … ourselves. In other words, if a kid is "an indefatigable nose picker with bluster all his own" we get a complex message about human behavior that we got from an unmentionable source: us. Long after hearing John's podcasts and poems, the scenes he describe live "rent free" in the reader's mind.

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Episode 37: Art of Fugue

Episode 37: Art of Fugue