"Cabin Music:" a video beyond description

Last night my friend and neighbor Mary Child, director of the Sandwich Glass Museum, invited me to join her at an intriguing event at the Cotuit Center for the Arts. It was a film sponsored by the Woods Hole Film Festival but it was also a piano concert by the film's creator James Carson. We both admitted we had no idea what to expect. Even with open minds, we were utterly unprepared for what we saw: a 70-minute visual prayer of thanks for Nature, for beauty, for the marvelous revelations of new experiences, for the marvel of stepping off the cliff of the Unknown, and the added marvel that others would join you, and the further marvel that some would understand your purpose, quite possibly your purpose in life.

You see? Do you really have ANY idea of what I am talking about? The film "Cabin Music" is the opportunity to witness the inner life of a man, Mary and I agree a genius, who at four years old was able to name the handful of notes his mother played in the next room. He was transcribing symphonies at 18. You can learn more about James Carson and Cabin Music - of course - on the internet.

Treat yourself. In these challenging times, the inexplicable makes great sense.