These stealthy gifts of beauty melt my heart.
Classical Flash Mob Stuns Commuters
Jesper Nordin conducts the Sjællands Symfoniorkester (Copenhagen Philharmonic) in a flash mob at Copenhagen Central Station playing Ravel’s Boléro. This kind of performance art reminds us that, when you least expect it, you can become submerged in beauty within moments: anywhere, by anyone (in street clothes, hauling a bassoon), and it can disappear just as quickly.
Today in the 11 AM section of my “Introduction to Sociology” class, we were supposed to be discussing how we investigate “social things” systematically, when a work crew set up a cherry picker and a tree shredder outside the window. I invited student to observe and comment on our observations.
Students’ observations swirled around cooperation, communication and mine about non-verbal communication, the division of labor, and secondary socialization.
Of course, when life gives you lemons, make lemonade, but beyond that, all can be grist for the sociological mill.
I love my job.
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Serendipity is one of my favorite words, and this is a good history of it. I especially enjoy that, like the words in other languages that describe emotions you never knew you had, it’s one of the top ten English words that is difficult to translate into other languages. So here’s to those pleasant surprises. The Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor | Small Town by Philip Booth |
