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Believe In Love
Believe in love
One of Babble’s bloggers shared a moving post about her final visit with her grandfather. The essay has been collected in an anthology of essays on love from the NPR show “This I Believe”. It’s awesome.
Korinthia Klein shares her story of playing guitar for her grandfather. Growing up, he always encouraged her musical aspirations, and listened eagerly to every song she played. At every visit, he’d ask her to play Amazing Grace, and she’d always have to tell him she didn’t know how.
When Klein was a teenager, her grandfather became very ill with cancer and died. Before his death, she was able to share one last visit with him. She finally got to play Amazing Grace, just like he’d always wanted.
That’s a gentle testament to love, one that rings with the power of family and roots, as well as a little girl’s love of music. It’s so powerful because it’s so familiar: we’ve all had a moment like that in our lives, when we reach past the everyday to touch a bit of grace and connect with another person.
Klein’s essay ends with the powerful words:
Love matters. Music matters. And in our best moments they are one and the same.
What do you believe about love? What moments have most clearly embodied love in your life?
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Voice of Reason commented on Nov 23 10 at 1:12 amJust want to say how much I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Korinthia Klein’s blog. Her posts nearly always resonate with me, even though our lives are quite different. As well as being a technically gifted writer, Korinthia has the ability to get right to the heart of the matter.
I think she’s a huge asset to Babble and I think this essay about her thoughtful musical tribute to her dying grandfather proves my point.
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