{"id":301,"date":"2015-02-01T00:00:29","date_gmt":"2015-02-01T00:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawrencedavis.org\/?p=301"},"modified":"2015-02-18T18:53:52","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T18:53:52","slug":"reaching-intro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/ldavis\/2015\/02\/reaching-intro\/","title":{"rendered":"The “Reaching In” Essays"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Reaching<\/p>\n

Lawrence Davis published a blog at lawrence-davis.blogspot.com titled “Reaching In.”\u00a0 He wrote fourteen essays from November 2011 to September 2013.\u00a0 Most of them are music-related, but the real emphasis in all his essays is people — their promise, progress and achievements.\u00a0 In his posts, Lawrence talked about growth and change, frustrations and joys.\u00a0 When I knew Lawrence as a young man, he would at times turn a cynical eye toward the absurdities of life, but it is hard to detect any cynicism in these writings — remarkable for someone in the “fourth movement” of a long career.\u00a0 I believe that Lawrence mainly used his blog (and his career) to “celebrate the power of human expression” as he put it.<\/p>\n

When we are transported that way by music and human endeavor, it is an evanescent moment.\u00a0 And when we return to everyday life with its multiple headaches and stresses, I can only hope we bring something back\u00a0\u2014 something that is life affirming \u2014 something that proves that, even if it is only a moment, life can be perfect.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2014 from<\/em> “The Soul Speaks”<\/p>\n

Lawrence latched onto such moments of perfection, crystallized them and shared them with us in these essays, of which there are sadly too few.\u00a0 – CHC<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lawrence Davis published a blog at lawrence-davis.blogspot.com titled “Reaching In.”\u00a0 He wrote fourteen essays from November 2011 to September 2013.\u00a0 Most of them are music-related, but the real emphasis in all his essays is people — their promise, progress and achievements.\u00a0 In his posts, Lawrence talked about growth and change, frustrations and joys.\u00a0 When I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reaching-in-blog","category-this-site"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/ldavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/ldavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/ldavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/ldavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/ldavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/ldavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/ldavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions\/312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/ldavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/ldavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/ldavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}