One thought kept returning to me while reading Love in the Time of Cholera: Gabriel García Márquez must have been a wonderful lover. I’m not talking about sex. I am talking about the spiritual side of love. Anyone who writes about love with the depth he does must have the capacity for an abundance ofContinue reading “Love in the Time of Cholera”
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Music 101: Gratitude
One of the most valuable lessons I learned as a musician came from Carlos Santana. He said that when you work on your instrument – learning scales and patterns, working repetitiously until your playing flows naturally – you should not think of it as ‘practice.’ Practice is a chore. Instead, you should think of it,Continue reading “Music 101: Gratitude”
Pity
The longer I live, the less anger I feel toward people who do bad or crazy things and the more I feel sorry for them. I feel sorry for the ignorant, the angry, and the apathetic. For the violent and their victims. I feel sorry for everybody. Every copy. Every BLM activist. Every racist. EveryContinue reading “Pity”
Day 31
Day 31 – Total confirmed cases in US: 609,685. The world will have it’s 2 millionth confirmed case today. Not even this devastating pestilence can stop the sunrise from coming. And these darkest of days have a light, no matter how dim… I pull the blanket I made from warm thoughts of you around myContinue reading “Day 31”
Touching Eternity
Thirty-nine years ago on this date – it was a Monday, like this one – I found a new kind of love. It wasn’t like any of the kinds of love I’d know to that point but it felt like it included all of them. It transcended each of them and brought them back toContinue reading “Touching Eternity”
