Note to Self, Fifteen Years Later

In cleaning out my studio, I found this old note to myself. I’m going to look at it every day this year!

James Baldwin on banishing fear

“The capacity for experience is what burns out fear.” — James Baldwin, interviewed in the Village Voice in 1984.

Hear, hear! Seth Horowitz on listening and hearing.

Earlier this month, Seth Horowitz, who is an auditory neuroscientist at Brown University, and who I regrettably never came across during my tenure there, released his book The Universal Sense: How Hearing Shapes the Mind. The New York Times ran a great essay by him, a paen to listening and why it’s so important (and […]