Music, Interdependence, and the Entangled Self

Music, just like the world made up of interconnected organisms, is deeply relational: it mysteriously connects us with people—young and old, earthbound and departed, intimate and distanced, gained and lost­—leaving us wanting more of a presence that cannot be grasped nor controlled.

SHINE ON, YOU CRAZY DIAMOND

  Thought you’d somehow GET LUCKY  To undo the WASTED YEARS I guess they were just HIGH HOPES  Cause today we’re POLES APART The hour you left this ORDINARY WORLD Sparked the end of GOOD TIMES Now you're sailing IN ANOTHER LAND MILES BEYOND the bounds of pain I WISH YOU WERE HERE today But you’re in GOOD COMPANY anyway While I…