🧩 Philosophy 6d ago · Maria Popova

Meteor of Joy: The Young People’s Chorus of New York City Sings Bird Divinations

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Meteor of Joy: The Young People’s Chorus of New York City Sings Bird Divinations
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Children know the deepest truths about life, the elemental knowledge we unlearn in the act of living, those inarticulable truths music alone helps us remember. To hear children sing the secret wisdom of the heart is to be in the presence of something truer and more transcendent than any of our poems and postulates can touch — the ultimate affirmation of our aliveness, emanating Richard Powers’s beautiful and bittersweet assertion that “the use of music is to remind us how short

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