Maurice Sendak

It's a blessing to get old.   It is a blessing to find the time to do the things, to read the books, to listen to the music. . .I have nothing now, but praise for my life..

On Complaining. . .

Just returned from a long week-end visit in Knoxville, Tennessee, with my 95 year old aunt.   I told her that one of the things I admire most about her is that she does not complain.

"I don't have anything to complain about." she said.

Surely anyone can find something to complain about.   Perhaps she is not trying hard enough.

Our favorite vocalist

A number written and preformed by our 14 year old granddaughter (with a little help from her dad who is also a musician).  Photos by another granddaughter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDKIHJs4o9s&feature=youtu.be

In Memoriam

Last week I read a Dear Abby column - someone wrote that they had tatooed a photo of their dear departed grandmother on their arm with a poem written by their grandfather underneath.   Another relative objected.
I cut out the column and mailed it to each of  my six teen-age grandchildren.   "Do not do this", I told them,
"Your grandfather cannot write poetry."

A Suggestion

"Love not thyself too much lest thou make others puke."
         (Overheard in South Missouri by William Least Heat Moon, reported in Riverhorse)

On Music -

In the biography of Steven Jobs, Walter Isaacson tells of Yo Yo Ma playing Bach on his 1735 Stradivarius
cello for Jobs in his home.  Jobs said, "Your playing is the best argument I have ever heard for the existence of God because I don't really believe a human alone can do this."

Music as an ethereal quality that lifts the listener out of ordinary life.   I am so happy that my Texas grandchildren are playing guitar, cello and viola as a dimension will be added to their lives.

"God within us is the ultimate  song that plays through our hearts and lives."   Daily Word March31,2012

The Wisdom of St. Augustine

Let us, on both sides, lay aside all arrogance.  Let us not, on either side, claim that we have already
discovered the truth.   Let us seek it together as something which is known to neither of us.