– In Beauty Will Save the World: Recovering the Human in an Ideological Age (p22), Gregory Wolfe wrote that “Reaching deep; into our collective thoughts and memories, great art sneaks past our shallow prejudices and brittle opinions to remind us of the complexity and mystery of human existence. The imagination calls us to leave our personalities behind and temporarily to inhabit another’s experience, looking at the world with new eyes.” (Wolfe, Gregory. Beauty Will Save the World. Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2014. )
This blog is dedicated to directing our minds to something beautiful. This might take the form of a listening suggestion, artwork, an element of our natural world, or some other sublime form of creativity. Within these posts will be contemplations on what constitutes an education that leads to an honorable and fulfilling life – a truly happy life. Fostering our natural sense of awe and wonder, so often lost as we grow older, can reawaken our sense of imagination, idealism and hope. This is the main aim of this blog and why I teach music.