Franz Schubert was one of the most remarkable musicians in Western history.  Immensely productive and profoundly creative, Schubert wrote some of the most ethereal and haunting melodies of all time.  We listen to his music and feel transported, lifted above what is earthly and material, moved into transcendence.

    Schubert's music reminds us that if music only told us what we already know, we probably wouldn't get as much out of it as we do.  We do not need to be reminded of what is obvious and normal.  We rather need to be encouraged to ponder what is beyond the apparent, what breaks down the seen, what splits the visible apart.  We want to know what we, at the moment, cannot.

    Every day we balance, balance between presence and absence, perched on a slippery. boundary dividing yet bridging present reality and ultimate destiny.  We walk in a wisp, gossamer veils stretched between us and the other side of time.

   Then we bump into eternity.  And life becomes bigger than life itself.