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The first people to understand how music really works were the ancient Greeks. And this is going to fascinate you; the Greeks said that music and astronomy were two sides of the same coin.

In September 2001 I was a resident of Manhattan. That morning I reached a new understanding of my art and its relationship to the world. I sat down at the piano that morning at 10 AM to practice as was my daily routine; I did it by force of habit, without thinking about it. I lifted the cover on the keyboard, and opened my music, and put my hands on the keys and took my hands off the keys. And I sat there and thought, does this even matter? Isn’t this completely irrelevant? Playing the piano right now, given what happened in this city yesterday, seems silly, absurd, irreverent, pointless. Why am I here? What place has a musician in this moment in time? Who needs a piano player right now? I was completely lost. And then I, along with the rest of New York, went through the journey of getting through that week. I did not play the piano that day, and in fact I contemplated briefly whether I would ever want to play the piano again. And then I observed how we got through the day.

Music allows us to move around those big invisible pieces of ourselves and rearrange our insides so that we can express what we feel even when we can’t talk about it.

So I read around and something clued me into the fact that when you set up a form in Google Spreadsheets, you can have the form emailed to you. In Gmail I went to the "show original" option while in the actual email that I received, and I could see the web-page code that had been generated to show the form in the email--which was regular code for an HTML submit form, and not an inline link to the form page. Well, that may be Greek to you or not, but all you need to know is that if you go down to the part of the original email that starts with the left triangle bracket before "form action="http://spreadsheets.google.com/formResponse?key=..." and you highlight through "/form" finishing with the right triangle bracket (which is almost at the end). You can now paste that code into "Other HTML" from the "Embed Widget" function, and your form will appear (and work!) on Wikispaces.