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To those that have taken the time to learn and carry with them years of practicing piano... it almost feels like a superpower. A gift you've been given. A gift that keeps on giving. The musical version of teaching a man to fish.

Swimming in a straight line is easy when we’re just practicing in the pool. But when race day comes and that line is gone, we may have to stop and adjust every now and then to make sure we're still on course.

Embracing softly with a squeeze, The silence of the moment speaks: “Dear child, don’t you know that I, Will never leave your gentle side?"

Compromising values for friendship puts you in compromising positions. Quite literally in some cases.

There is no greater blessing than family. There is no greater love than the love for children. Before Chandler was born, my wife and I did not know just how much we needed him in our family.

The dents, the imperfections, and even the flame engulfed burnt to a crisp roasted marshmallows, still taste just as good.

“Exactly,” says Dumbledore, “Which makes you very different from Tom Riddle. It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”