The busy world.

I post this video because our Sunday bulletin mentioned it.
If you are one of the four people on the planet who don't know the story, a year or so back the Washington Post positioned violin virtuoso Joshua Bell (with his kajillion dollar Stradivarius) in a DC Metro station, where he played for 45 minutes. The "test" was to see how many people would stop to enjoy the man's music. Only seven people stopped for a bit. 1,070 people were too busy on a workday morning to give even a few seconds to a man making some mighty beautiful music.  The previous night, Bell had played to a sold-out house and commanded hundreds of dollars per ticket. Bell reported that there was just one group of people who consistently wanted to stop, tugging toward him and looking back as they were rushed by: little children.
It irks me greatly that so many youngsters, recognizing such awesome beauty in a place where they probably don't see it much, were ignored and prodded on by their frantic parents.
When your small child is tugging you toward something like Bach (which humans innately love), follow them. The parents who stopped with their children that morning taught their kids something.
So did the parents who rushed by without so much as a glance toward one of the finest musicians in the world.