Ragtime

When I was a small child, my mother would play the piano at night, usually shortly after my siblings and I had gone to sleep. She plays all kinds of music, but especially ragtime. Scott Joplin.

Fast forward.


I'm a student in graduate school. Home on a long weekend between classes. And what does my mother play to practice? Ragtime. And what does my body and brain do, as if instinctually? Fall asleep.