An ABSOLUTE MUST read article

[Servus Iesu]

Pearls Before Breakfast:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/04/AR2007040401721_pf.html

 

[tel0004]

Here is a video on Youtube, of that, sped up. you can see that just about nobody notices.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnOPu0_YWhw&mode=related&search=

 

[MikeK]

I hate it when people post links to articles on here. I read them all, they're usually lame, and I usually know what they are going to say before I read them. I wonder if the poster has an original thought in his head, and why he's on a board pimping someone else's thoughts. I read them anyway, for reasons unknown. This article is different. It's good. It didn't make me sad, but it did make a little tear well up. I don't know why. I'm not very sentimental. My knowledge of clasical music is limited to the 5 or 6 clasical CDs I own. I do not play violin. I've never been to a symphony.

We will never expirience what beauty is if we don't look for it.

 

[Amylisa]

Wow!
I wish Josh Groban would show up in my town and do this.
Joshua Bell plays violin on one of Josh G's albums.
Beautiful indeed.

(I have to confess when i first wrote this quick reply, I had only read a piece of the article. Now I read it, and watched the video.
It's hard to put words to how it makes you feel. So sad. Sobering.)

MikeK, I like what you said....
"We will never experience what beauty is if we don't look for it."
Very true.

 

[ProCommunioneFacior]

What a fine piece of journalism, I'm halfway through it and thoroughly enjoying the article, can't wait to finish it.

 

[Servus Iesu]

Here is a video on Youtube, of that, sped up. you can see that just about nobody notices.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnOPu0_YWhw&mode=related&search=

Thank you for posting that.

 

[JeffreyLloyd]

Very cool!

 

[willard3]

I find it infuriating, but not surprising. Unfortunately.

I'm a music major, so this strikes a particularly nasty chord in me.

 

[QuantaCura]

Wow. That was so sad.

 

[Globalnomad]

Servus Iesu, I can't thank you enough for posting this amazing article. Yes, it is terribly sad. Let's all promise to use this story again and again, to spread the message so succintly put byMikeK. (Reps going to both of you).

 

[Servus Iesu]

The part which I thought was most poignant, was how the children wanted to stop and see him play, but their parents would spirit them along. It shows how children have a certain innate curiosity and appreciation for the good and beautiful. I think postmodern society is such that it desensitizes us to what is important over time. It kills the soul. We are rich in technological gadgets and poor in the stuff of the spirit.

 

[Amylisa]

The part which I thought was most poignant, was how the children wanted to stop and see him play, but their parents would spirit them along. It shows how children have a certain innate curiosity and appreciation for the good and beautiful. I think postmodern society is such that it desensitizes us to what is important over time. It kills the soul. We are rich in technological gadgets and poor in the stuff of the spirit.

Very true, unfortunately.