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Music is inscribed between noise and silence, in the space of the social codification it reveals. Every code of music is rooted in the ideologies and technologies of its age, and at the same time produces them. If it is deceptive to conceptualize a succession of musical codes corresponding to a succession of economic and political relations, it is because time traverses music and music gives meaning to time.
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Challenges in life should be seen as goals, rather than filibustered moments making up a sleepless night.
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“Her soul is long gone,” I told my Mom.
“I guess you’re right,” she said, “but that doesn’t make tomorrow any easier.”
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There are moments in life when you see the strengths of one’s inner soul exemplified to the highest degree. Today is one of those days.
I love you Nana.
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Of life and love.
As I pushed my grandfather’s wheel chair through the endless hospital hallways, I couldn’t fathom the thoughts the 98 year old year old WWII vet was thinking and the endless pain he felt inside. My grandpa is a man of few words, not by choice but due to the fact that he’s about 80% def. He kept saying, “I’d help you find our way around here but I can’t see those signs.” He has cateracts in each eye too.
He was helpless to helping me… and helping his bride, my grandma, his everything. He is at peace with the simple fact that he has no control right now and trusts that the doctors and caretakers will do everything they can for he and his bride.
My “Papa”, as I usually call him, and I eventually found elevator c, which would bring us to the 3rd floor: the ICU. As I spun his wheel chair in a 180 degree circle in the elevator, I began to think how this could be his last time ever seeing his best friend.
We stepped off the elevator and I thought about the problems the love stuck couple had after “papa” returned from war. My “nana” survived breast cancer and multiple leg surgeries. My “papa” survived eye and heart surgeries but this moment, this split second was the most in danger either of their lives had been in since WWII.
We soon found her room. I locked the wheels of “Papa’s” wheel chair next to her bed. He stood up, with all the strength left in his frail, 5’ 9” body. His lip began to quiver as he saw his love laying in bed, dozens of wires and devices around her. Her breathing thick and raspy.
My mother pointed to “papa” and “nana” looked at him. While it took her minutes to recognize her own daughter, son-in-law or grandson, she instantly smiled a weak sick smile. He reached for her hand and they kiss. “I love you,” they each said. They were speechless. The room was silent as we all knew this 65 year old partnership was unlike anything we could understand. Their faith so great that their time was coming yet the time of their lives had already passed. They were so near, yet so far apart. In this one moment, life was right.
A few moments passed, she looked around the room confused again and said “where am I? Who are you? What do I have to do?” Moments later, he again caught her eye, all was well.
She soon fell asleep. After sitting for a few minutes papa decides its time to go. As I pushed him out the door he says, “give her a kiss for me when she wakes up.” Something tells me, that wouldn’t quite be the same for her.
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I know you vie for the good ol’ days
and with less of us around, we were a cinch to sway
does it feel like it’s the end of the world
well maybe it is, but when was it not,
cause it’s true, me and you
we are all tomorrow’s food today
there’s no such thing as the good ol’ days
the older we all get, the better we all were
there’s no such as the end of the world
(but just in case!)you’d best batten down and button up
cause it’s true, me and you
we are all tomorrow’s food today -
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
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My dog, a hipster.
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Happiness is a mental state of well-being characterized by positive emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy.
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Snow again.
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Technology Enthusiast. Perpetual Student.
Photographer.
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