RE: Sometimes the Most Profound Lesson Is to Embrace the Grace To Keep Moving, and the Grace to Rest (Roland Kovaĉ, Brahms)
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Not officially ... I have brought back my favorite opera singer in the spirit for Q-Inspired by Music because he is my all-time favorite musician, successor through my study of his life and work to my own dearly missed first music teacher who was his age mate ... I have learned more by listening to Kurt Möll (1938-2017) singing his beloved old German lieder than from any music but my own grandmother's Negro Spirituals, and he was he type of big, loving man who would have fit into my own family perfectly as an uncle, a slightly younger peer to my own dad -- so if I do ever have a beau again, he would make a decent international model except accounting for age!
But no ... I am peacefully single ... I organize my days around caring for my aging parents, community work, my business life, and my walks ... even if I am out working, I tend to work my exercise and park time in, and occasionally even my brunch ... and I remind myself of the things the elders who actually are in my life have taught me and then have indeed had reinforced through music. Herr Möll was born in Buir, Germany, and LITERALLY spent his formative years surviving World War II as the nearest big city, Cologne, was bombed into dust. He quietly made it his life's work to sing to his people of who they had been and what they at their best believed and had to become again so as not to fall into the traps that led to Nazi Germany ... the master teacher set forth his collections and his choices of roles well, and truly was a master communicator in both song and interview so that if one pays attention, one can still learn the answers that he found and left just as one can through the studies of the Negro Spiritual I have also done. His younger friends, students, and admirers, even before his death, decided the world could not afford to lose him and so started putting his work on YouTube (the comments and their anecdotes are amazing) ... so now, his work reaches millions, and my little contribution is extending that here to Hive!
That is an interesting story.
My granddaughter's grandmother was born in Germany, on dad's side, she was a child in WW11 and their parents were taken, and somehow her and her sister got out, one of them wrote a book but it was only written in German. Last year for Christmas she sent my granddaughter a copy, she had it reprinted in English.
You will meet him when the time is right.
Germany's history and our country's own are deeply interlinked ... in Golden Gate Park here I found a stone that Germany had given San Francisco in 2018 as a promise never to do again what it had done in the world wars ... turns out German architects worked in making many of the city's greatest landmarks, and there is good German food and culture here because ... well, it's actually foundational to the city in its United States-era life, and that is actually true of the country as well.
About meeting him ... I refer often in this series of stories to "my grand old soldier" ... again, the problem was that he is near-peer to my father also. He and I walked in the parks for almost 20 years ... in a way, these stories are an extension of all that I learned in that deep friendship that, accounting for age, could not be more than an affair of the heart. I have had a younger walking partner since (read, still 64 now), but since Covid have chosen to remain alone ... I take my journals and talk with the Lord and snap my photos, and then come through Hive once a week and share some of what I have learned from the music of the week as well, in the spirit of the love I have known from here and above ... an echo, if you will ... for now, I am content.