Volume #19, Issue #4 -- August 1992
EDITORIAL
Music… it can be subtle enough to invoke a pleasant childhood memory, or hard enough to incite riots. No matter how you look at it, music reaches down and grabs you by the root of your soul. Of course, we are each moved by different variances of sound.
A note carefully placed within a tapestry of woven chords can emote the most diverse feelings--a tear, a sigh, joy, anguish. When that moment strikes, when the music does you right, it all becomes astonishingly clear. We are one with the rhythm, and the rhythm is the earth.
Studies have proven that music holds curative power. Mickey Hart is helping to pioneer the foundations of this knowledge. With the research now being conducted, the elderly are benefiting from the rhythmic healing that comes from the stimulation that music brings. The most severely autistic children are being reached and are responding to music. People that suffer from memory handicaps are capable of having their memory responses triggered with the help of music. Such power is only beginning to be tapped as a tremendous source of potential strength.
So remember, when the sunshine isn't as bright as you need it to be and that on thing on your mind won't let you find peace, put on some good music, slap a grin on your face and dance your way through the magic.
Toni A. Brown
Publisher