  I introduce and explore a range of topics of contemporary interest in
hadronic physics: from what drives the formation of a nonzero quark condensate
to the effect that mechanism has on light and heavy meson form factors, and the
properties of the quark-gluon plasma. The trail leads naturally through a
discussion of confinement, dynamical chiral symmetry breaking and bound state
structure: phenomena that require nonperturbative methods for their
explanation. In all of this, the necessary momentum-dependent modification of
the quark and gluon propagators plays a significant role.
