I sent a picture to Kat the other day of my 81 year old father-in-law, taken a few weeks ago, playing the Missouri Waltz on his fiddle. The amazing part is not his age, but the fact that he had Guillan-Barre Syndrome, twenty years ago and, after once being totally paralyzed and suffering some fine motor control damage in his fingers, still manages to crank out a few tunes.

And the other wonderful thing is that there is this stubborn streak in musicians, that despite the disability they still are determined to find a way to make music.