Seeking Absolution

Listening to this music brings to mind calm and pleasant things - known and unknown, all those times of peace and quiet. The world has missed a lot of that lately, lurching from one bad news to the next. In my own life as with most people I know, its been about uncertainty and disruption of many forms; learning to cope with change that had never been imagined possible. I had not even heard of the kora before this. Such a happy discovery to end the year. An eventful one for me losing three people I was close to and one that very much disliked me. I learned that I grieved for those who loved me just as much as for the one who did not - maybe even more because he had died without us having made peace. 

Many times in the last few years, I thought I would reach out and try to heal what was so irreparably broken.  Each time the thought crossed my mind, I pushed it aside for another day when I would feel more ready for the challenge. That day never came. The living get to stay behind with their regrets and get to replay in their minds what might have been. The music brought me calm in the midst of such thoughts. I remembered the good that came to pass in the year - the few lives I was able to touch in a positive way.