But it's a big ocean. It's an even bigger world. And maybe we've gotten as close as we're supposed to get.
You just work through it. You just hang in there.
And then Adam Wilde shows up at Carnegie Hall on the biggest night of my career, and it felt like more than a coincidence. It felt like a gift. From them. For my first recital ever, they gave me a cello. And for this one, they gave me you.
(P)eople’s good intentions can wind up putting us in boxes as confining as coffins.
And something tells me if it matters, maybe it shouldn't be easy.
But I'd do it again. I know that now. I'd make that promise a thousand times over and lose her a thousand times over to have heard her play last night or to see her in the morning sunlight. Or even without that. Just to know that she's somewhere out there. Alive.