I found Playing For Change and linked it to my blog in 2014. I couldn't figure out how to write on the page; it just didn't let me, so it sat as a draft for the next 6 years. You can tell that it's not done today since all of the people are outside, surrounded by others an sitting really close to each other. Remember hugging ?
I looked at it again today and thought about how amazing it was that technology existed 6 years ago could let people who had never met and were all around the world sing together. It still completely confounds me, even though I know today that it is still really hard to do. Well, at least that's what I've heard.
I still can't figure out how to write on the page, so I just published it and am offering this as a sort of postscript. (Do only people who are old know what a "postscript" is? For that matter, do only old people know what a semicolon is?) Leaning on others seems to be a lesson we really need in today's world, as much, if not more, than we needed it 6 years ago. So I offer it as an old/new lesson and a bit of comfort in this world filled with the anguish of another Black man's death at the hands of a cop, the indifference of government leaders in multiple countries, and the random acts of kindness in a troubled world. Lean on me, and please, let me lean on you.
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