“The most critical aspect of the work, both artists said, was not the objects themselves, but the space between objects.” -Daniel J. Levitin, This is Your Brain on Music As I was reading Levitin’s book this evening I came across the quote above and had to pause. Levitin does an excellent job of explaining musical concepts like pitch, timbre, tempo and harmony in an easily accessible way. He was making the point that the art in music can be just as easily found in the absence

Recently I’ve taken up running again. Don’t worry, this isn’t some story of how glorious it has made me feel. Running sucks. I’ve been doing it for months now, and I’ve yet to have that stupid runner’s high that everybody talks about. I just feel moderately like crap when I’m done. At least that was the case until today. Finally I managed to have a good day! I felt great. So what was different about today? Well, the pace was a little different. I altered my stride just a litt