Music Therapy: Oliver Sacks and Healing the Mind

This video has rightly gone viral on YouTube.  It says what musicians generally already know: neurologically, music is sanity.

Film Review With Adult Beverage: UP & Primal Scream

While I think it's right that Carl should learn to live again, and to see his life with Ellie as a process of love that never dies rather than an achievement he has now accomplished, the Carl who loved Ellie is not so much transformed by that love as erased.  Now he has a new life. 

Maybe that's the way these things go.

Maybe we gain amnesia as well as dementia.

I hope not.

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