Monitoring the national political soundscape for evidence of intelligent leadership this month has been an exercise in futility.  There have been notes from every register of the audible spectrum, but I for one have not discerned much of anything you might call music. 

Last month I wondered whether forces might align for leaders to ‘meet in this lost middle ground and pry open a dialogue about our common future.’  In this month’s post, I offer a few ‘picked-up pieces’ while listening, mostly in vain, for sounds of that dialogue. Read more