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"... side by side with the human race runs another race of beings, the inhuman ones, the race of artists who guided by unknown impulses, take the lifeless mass of humanity and by the fever and ferment with which they imbue it turn this soggy dough into bread and the bread into wine and the wine into song..."
Henry Miller

Inventing a New Way to Listen to Music

This blog aims to expand your appreciation for song and written word together. Many of the posts have been designed to match the time of a specific song in reading length. The words of the post, together with the song you hear, will open your mind to a new way of reading and listening to music. Enjoy!

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

George Bailey, Sal Paradise, and the Pursuit of Happiness

Here is another op-ed piece I wrote for BreakThru Radio. The funny thing is, I admire and look up to both of these heroes. I found it difficult to pit one against the other. I guess the real pursuit lies in the balance between the two.

If you are into the money vs. happiness debate, check out Woody Allen's "Money Can Buy Happiness--As If" article in the January 24th Shouts & Murmurs section of The New Yorker. He brilliantly takes the reader through a fictional tale of a real-life Monopoly game around the financial debacle of the last three years.

As a side not, should we be surprised that Monopoly was invented during the Great Depression? Talk about American psyche for fantasy.

Opinion Week - George Bailey, Sal Paradise, and the Pursuit of Happiness
Posted by Kory French at 9:37 AM

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