I began reading neuro-musical polymath Daniel J. Levitin’s new book, This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession, with consideration anticipation. I mean, who can deny it . . . what an extraordinary phenomenon music is!
Some years ago, while living in a suburb of Denver, I remember being so affected by [...]
If memory is right, my first exposure to the late Ernest Becker was his Pulitzer-Prize-winning (awarded posthumously, in the height of irony, two months after his own death at age 49) The Denial of Death. One phrase from that book has stayed with me because it says more about the condition of us humans than [...]
Dudley Lynch stepped off the curb of normal expectations some years ago and has never managed to get back on the sidewalk. He observes, opines, writes and sometimes lectures (usually the dog) on the serious consequences of being alive in the 21st Century from Gainesville, Florida, where he is president of Brain Me Up.
