A wonderful experiment in D.C. attempting to expose our impatience and lack of appreciation for things beautiful was blogged about at Think Christian:

“A recent article in the Washington Post describes a fascinating experiment: what would happen if the world’s greatest violin player set up camp at a Metro station in rush-hour Washington D.C.? Master musician Joshua Bell played anonymously for an hour on a $3.5 million violin in a D.C. subway station as part of an experiment to see how commuters would respond. Would busy commuters notice him? Dismiss him, toss him some spare change, gather to listen? Would anybody even notice that they were being treated to masterful renditions of some of the finest music in human history?”

Blogger Jeff Berryman suggests in his commentary on the article that “beauty is common; the experience of it is rare.” Read the original Washington Post article, Pearls Before Breakfast, via this link.