This is lovely, Jerry. Thanks again.
Me? I'm learning to laugh again. I'm learning that love never dies. I am learning that tears happen, day after day, but they are healing, too. I'm learning that although life is sometimes cruel, unfair, and full of suffering, it's still worth living.
I'm learning to cherish every single moment of every single day.

I'm learning the joy of playing the concertina. I'm learning that music connects us to those who have crossed to the other shore.

I'm on school vacation, the sun is shining brightly every day, I'm looking for a doggie companion, and my kids are sweet and bright and strong.
At a used bookstore yesterday I found a book on the Fisk Jubilee Singers that's reviewed in the newest Singout. And I found a 1905 publication of choral arrangements of "songs of plantation and jubilee as sung by" various groups like the Fisk singers. A gold mine!

My daughter and my best friend and I are going to lunch at a chocolatier today.

Here in New England it's still winter, but its back is broken, and spring will return.

Allison