However, this is too harmonious, grand, and overwhelming a universe to believe it all on accident.
You took a huge part of us with you, Chika, the best part, but it was yours to take, and I hope it will always be close to you.
Dizzy Gillespie, the jazz trumpet player, once said, “It’s taken me all my life to learn what not to play.” He was one of my special ones. And he was quite correct. Silence enhances music. What you do not play can sweeten what you do. But.
I may be dying, but I am surrounded by loving, caring souls. How many people can say that?
Monsieur Django, I presume?” Duke Ellington said, offering his hand. “Monsieur.
Because it all ties together. When I grew up, I realized how lucky I’d been. I got serious. I studied. I went to college, then medical school. I specialized in replantation.
Every family is a ghost story.
We often think things are about us when they are not.
Loneliness was like an ogre hovering over those activities.
Animals not only make music, they hear it in unique fashion.
I bought this the day before at a shopping mall. I didn’t want to forget him. Maybe I didn’t want him to forget me.
They fill every waking minute with action, but they are empty. “To.
That the end of loneliness is when someone needs you.
Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too.
Rock and roll, big band, the blues. He loved them all. He would close his eyes and with a blissful smile begin to move to his own sense of rhythm. It wasn’t always pretty.
When you give, you get,” he said.
Soon we had tumbled into a most fundamental debate. How can different religions coexist?
My mother inhaled.
Then he commandeered the floor, shooting back and forth like some hot Latin lover. When he finished, everyone applauded. He could have stayed in that moment forever.
He was switching between classical riffs and the jazz tune, “Body and Soul.