Because it distills so much into a single song. It keeps me sane. It allows me to really explore how and why I'm feeling the way I am.

I am currently living with someone who often DOESN'T like music, and he turned off Bernstein's Chichester Psalms last night. I'm not sure he will grow up to understand. I'm not even sure he can HEAR it. Seems to me to be a sad and poor way to be.

I love to hear my kids sing, and to share their musical tastes. (It's educational, if nothing else) And I love to hear the tweety birds that have taken up residence with my chickens.