A few years ago I posted on FaceBook in regards to the Kennedy Center Honors. I had been quite emotional as I watched and listened to the story of the career of Amy Grant. A friend and pastor noted something like “it’s always been about the music for you.” Now, that may not be a direct quote, but the gist of the 2022 message echos still.

Somewhere in the last year I was listening to Pandora radio and I quickly clicked to the next song because the emotion of…whatever was playing…was not what I needed to be reminded of at the moment. As the next song came on I had this great epiphany of “wow…if I ever doubt I’ve had a great life, I shall listen to the music of “x” and have a soundtrack of 30 years.”

Today I’m re-reading the Mitch Albom book The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto. It is narrated by Music.

I find myself, on this particular evening…and others…reading the book aloud…to myself…to the Universe. I feel the music. I understand the narrator, As music tells stories of artists, I look them up and listen to their music and read their biographies. And I emote. I feel. I read and play them again.

Such wise words…it’s always been about the music.

Or maybe not. Not about the the music, but the the music is the modality to get me to…feel.

And that’s the work.