I Just Listened to a Song

I just listened to a song.

More than books or visual forms of art, music is perhaps the most telling of our culture, our age.

And perhaps, this is why I am so moved by that first lackluster sentence: I just listened to a song.

For a spell in my life, this was a routine occurrence. I remember buying my first compact disc in eighth grade. It came out of a tattered locker of a guy so far ahead in his life I failed to grasp it. He was selling cds in order to fund a guitar purchase. He realized that...