Other composers have attempted only a few times to write music that intends to touch the spiritual. But you can sense that this music is meant to rise up to the top of those immense buildings, and then waft beyond, into the night sky even when it’s day. When it comes to music, some human composers, like Bach, wrote almost all of their music for that realm that we can’t smell - even though it may often be performed in buildings where there’s lots of incense burning.
For many of us, you probably better than me, can even divide these two worlds into what we can smell and that which we can’t. Think for a moment about the forever part of us, the part that feels like it’s somehow attached to what we see in the night sky, when we can lift our gaze from what’s close to us to what lies out there in the mysterious dark. Without them there, who’s going to throw that frisbee? It’s kind of a sad question, since if you enjoyed each other’s company in life on earth, you might think you’d be able to continue that friendship. There’s even been speculation whether, if there is, in fact, a heaven, you are likely to find your human there. There’s been some discussion over the years about whether dogs have souls.
Let’s give it a try! (I think the next sentence is a lock to get their attention.) All you have to do is read the following out loud to your friend, slowly and carefully, and deploying as many facial expressions as you can so that your body language will convery some of the concepts that might exceed your friend’s word vocabulary.
In this chapter, I’d like to speak directly to your fur-covered learner over there, hopefully sitting next to you on your sofa, awake and ready for something new. After awhile it could come off as a bit routine, so I like to try something different. I’d like to take a break from our previous structure in which you have been reading a section and then explained it to your hound, possibly playing examples here and there.
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