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One thing he asked the audience at one of his three concerts was: what is a pianist’s greatest fear? His answer was not forgetting the music, but the loss of a hand. Then he played an entire piece using just his left hand. You can imagine how difficult that is, especially if you are right handed.
This story of Hee Ah Lee takes it even farther. Born with serious birth defects, she has mastered piano with the use of only 4 fingers, some of which do not function as normal fingers. It makes many difficulties most of us might face seem very small in comparison.
It moved me to tears. I was also moved that her mother resisted family pressure to abandon her to adoption to Canada or the West. To her mother, Hee Ah Lee has always been beautiful and perfect.
She has given more than 200 concerts and loves to perform. If you watch the second video to the very end, you can see that she knows how to interact with the audience.
Here’s a short piece played by her:
And a longer story:
You can find other videos featuring her also.
The lesson here, to me, is find a way. If something seems impossible, yet our talents are leading us to do it, find a way.
There is a unique way for each of us to accomplish most anything, if we truly desire it, work toward it, and have our own vision that we keep in sight. It also helps to surround ourselves with others who will help forward our vision or even lead us to it. Eliminate naysayers! Work towards the end we are trying to achieve.
The world needs our music, whether we are playing music or living the music of our lives. Each of us is needed.
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“The summer night is like a perfection of thought.” –Wallace Stevens
“In summer, the song sings itself.” –William Carlos Williams
Sometimes I take stock of myself or my life and remember the simple things that, if I but notice them, make life easier. At times that is about the best way to get through. A perfect summer night is one of them.
It has been beautiful around here lately. I never fail to recognize it when I feel the breeze, and it is cool. Warm days, but not blistering, and cooling off at night. By August, and even into October, the cool down is practically minimal.
I was waiting for summer to share these quotes. The trouble for me is that summer here can be just too, too hot. When it is, I run my errands early in the morning or after 5 pm. I don’t know how people survived minus air conditioning.
Well, as a kid, we headed to the lake. And when we were in town, we lived at the swimming pool.
The other day I saw a great old car — it looked brand new — and as much as I might have liked tooling around in it, a blast from the past, there wasn’t any air conditioning. Nope, no can do!
Right now, today, I was thinking that for June we are having very temperate weather. I’m surprised it isn’t hotter, but a lot of it is because we’ve had literally inches of rain. Afternoon rains cool it down right quick. For me, it’s even better if there’s some overcast. Let the sun come out, and it is too, too hot.
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