"What is required of us is that we love the difficult and learn to deal with it. In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us. Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Selected Letters)
The internet has provided the following trail of musical breadcrumbs
and, just when I thought I couldn't love this song any more than I already do, it's interpreted in sign language
Place to explore: http://www.read.gov/
http://www.read.gov/exquisite-corpse/Book/#page/2/mode/2up
Grandma will turn 95 in April. She started going out with Grandpa when she was 18. They were married when she was 26. He died 12 years ago yesterday. And these facts help as the grains of salt when, horrified that I don't have a boyfriend, she says "But you should hurry up and find someone - you don't want to be an OLD MAID." Yes Grandma. I'll see what I can do about that. You know though that if I'd stayed with any of my boyfriends it would have ended in bloodshed already and I'd be alone or dead now anyway.
