John Hutchinson

My workmate sighed and explained he was having a bad day despite “I get up every morning feeling good about life and not wanting to hurt anyone.   Then I come to work, still feeling positive, but then someone says or does something and I become miserable.  Hurt sometimes”.  I knew instantly who had upset him.  The resident female bully.   A ‘lady’ burdened with attitude and ego.   What do you do … ?   Or … What should you do … ?

Well - in correspondence Tchaikovsky suggested to a friend that, “Where words fail, music speaks”.  I think this touches the communal spirit that is music … perfectly.   Some music does speak to us.  We hear it and understand what it is saying.  Without literary lyric.   Yet still emotionally lyrical.