Article picked up by the Freakonomics Blog, and as it mentions, one of the best newspaper articles in awhile. Read this, and then read it again one day.
A guy playing a violin at the top of the L'Enfant Plaza Metro Stop in D.C. Do you stop an listen or do you walk on buy to get to your busy job and be busy. It is the nature of American life to get where you are going and perhaps counter culture to stop and appreciate what you hear. I hope that I would have at least given the guy a glance. I'm reminded of sitting at a cafe in Barcelona when a Violinist happened by and I was lucky enough to be in the right place, and perhaps more importantly, in the right mind set to appreciate the music.
What is this life if, full of care,We have no time to stand and stare.
-- from "Leisure," by W.H. Davies
