ONE CELLO AND THREE VIOLINS

We attended a candle-lit concert…with joy and wonder already built in. It was the music of Adele…performed by 1 cello and 3 violins. For a little while that evening…if was our aim…our intention…our goal to allow the candles to light up our hearts…while the music soothed our souls. Because we needed to be mesmerize, to be enchanted and enthralled… to put on hold…for a moment…the horrible things our government is doing to people outside the concert hall. As we waited to enter we met and talked to a young couple… they liked Adele but their favorite artist is Coldplay… This couple was from London, England…(we could listen to them talk all day). We met another couple and the group we were standing with let out a cheer when we discovered it was their anniversary…they’ve been married for seven years. With the aid of Google we helped another couple…who were on the edges of despairing… by reading to them the correct way to get lip gloss out of the clothes that they were wearing. Once inside…(we showed up early…we hate to arrive late) we met up with our niece…attending the concert with her date. Then we all sat down to listen to the music of Adele played by 1 cello and 3 violins… and let the music lift us up…and take us to places we’ve never been. Every now and then I’d close my eyes…then open them before the song was done only to see a thousand notes floating in the air…landing on everyone. When I described the people we met that night …the ones listening to 1 cello and 3 violins… I deliberately omitted any information about what they looked like… their sexual preference, their gender…the color of their skin. Because it didn’t matter to the notes onto whose shoulders they were landing or to the music…into whose ears it flew…. and if it didn’t matter to the notes or the music…why should it matter to you. Music sees us as humans…it does not see our sex, gender color or name… to the notes that emanated from 1 cello and 3 violins…we all look the same. When the concert ended we did feel mesmerized, enchanted and enthralled… and we wished this feeling of togetherness and unity…would extend outside the concert hall. Perhaps that’s what our government…every government needs…before any session begins… to take a moment…close their eyes and listen…to the music of 1 cello and 3 violins.