Wondering what constitutes a thoughtful blog post? These are two examples. Sonny's Blues I really love this story. I think the fact that it’s about music touched a vein of mine, but I’m pretty sure you could substitute any kind of life work. I really think it’s beautiful the way Baldwin describes life as beautiful, and music or drugs or anything being the culmination of so much life. It really is like everything that we are coalesces into every moment, and every note of music requires all that we are, all of our emotions, and most of all the willingness to liberate ourselves by making ourselves vulnerable to the universality of music. It really is like dispersing into something that floats away with the air. Everything is so private all of the time; we live in such a subjective, restrictive world. The one moment we let ourselves go to the music, we give into a world that can make connections between the subjective sacks of our individual beings. We allow our anger or our passion to...