Tuning In To a Different Rhythm

The tick-tock metronome of content and news drowns out the real signals of life.

New Orleans jazz (where I’ll be for Jazz Fest in May…)

I’ve been feeling down this past week. It might be because I’ve been listening to too much discordant music: the uncoordinated, nonrhythmic pulse of content, which is less like a pulse—which indicates life—and more like clashing cymbals (symbols!). An infinite array of them.

I’m writing this on Palm …