Words are inadequate

I have been a math geek all of my life. I knew the rules, the procedures, and how to get the results.

I was taking a Teaching Middle School Mathematics class a couple of years ago, and all at once, out loud, in the middle of instruction, I blurt, "I understand fractions!"

I turned red and apologized, but the teacher made me explain.... I realized I never had innate number sense for them before.


Same thing happened in Modern Geometry the semester before.

Not the same as music and art, but it shows that our brains change as we age, and once we have experience we can start to understand those nuances that adults were always trying to get across to us.

I think I started to finally understand art around 9/11/1 when I was working off some stress and angst from the Two Towers incident. I had never really felt anything in my art before. I was ... well, it freed me up a lot.

Glad you finally felt the music.