To Mend A Broken Heart

I watched a movie years ago where a child disappeared on his way to school one morning.  His distraught mom called the police, but there was no trace, not even the smallest clue for them to follow.  A few weeks passed and still, no word.  One night the tortured, powerless mom sat down at her piano, opened a Mozart sonata, and began picking out the melody very slowly with one hand.

This morning, feeling as helpless over the devastation in Haiti as the mother in that movie, I sat down at my concert harp and very slowly began playing a piece of music I haven’t looked at in years.

Sometimes making music is the only thing you can do to mend a broken heart.

“Music is what feelings sound like.” — Author Unknown

“Music speaks what cannot be expressed, soothes the mind and gives it rest, heals the heart and makes it whole, flows from heaven to the soul.” — Anonymous

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent.” — Victor Hugo