View from 2010

Communicating in mere words is incredibly difficult and often just plain inadequate. A quote from Paula Underwood Spencer, an American Indian writer, offers a possible method for dealing with the challenge: "If you want to be truly understood, you need to say everything three times, in three different ways. Once for each ear and once for the heart. The right ear represents the ability to apprehend the nature of the Whole, the wholeness of the circumstance, the forest. The left ear represents the ability to select a sequential path. And the heart represents a balance between the two."

This is why I'm a musician. I aim for both ears and the heart---all at once.