How I Found a New Singing Voice at 70
A dear friend of mind has a particular gift. He’s long been acclaimed as being the sort of singing voice that comes along less than once in a generation. His renditions of some of the songs he sang in Broadway shows are recognized as the defining recordings of those songs.
A Lesson in Resilience From an Injured Butterfly
There’s a plant in my garden called Buddleia. Its common name is Butterfly Bush, and it lives up to that name because, once its flowers come out, butterflies (and certain moths) swarm to it. I live in a place with cold winters, and I used to have to re-plant it every year. Because our winters have gotten warmer, this spring, I noticed the one I planted last year had re-sprouted.