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What are we doing here?

September 7, 2011 by John Thomas Dodson 1 Comment

When I was little, my father used to tell a story of a little boy from long ago. He was walking among many people engaged in a flurry of activity. "What are you doing?" he asked one man with a chisel and hammer in his hand. "I'm cutting this stone down to a particular size," he answered. The little boy walked over to another man and asked the same question, but he received a completely different response: "I'm building a cathedral." Sometimes I don't think we have any idea what we're actually doing. We only see the stone in our … [Read more...]

John Dodson

John Thomas Dodson has been asking questions about how the arts can be used in building communities. Currently Music Director of the Birmingham Bloomfield Symphony Orchestra, Lexington Bach Festival And and  Conciertos de la Villa de Santo Domingo, … [Read More]

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