I grew up with my mother’s baby grand in our small apartment.  It looked so elegant and yet, when I got married and my husband bought our house I just could not seem to make it fit.  Mama’s Story and Clark was over 100 years old and in need of significant repair.  When I was in college I acquired this little upright Kimball and that easily fit into our home.  Have you ever noticed when you hear something “off” long enough you can actually get used to it?  Our little one’s piano teacher informed me our piano was in need of tuning.  It was so cool to watch the guy who came out, and he told me my piano was over 75 years old.  It got me to thinking about time, and (literally) being “out of tune.”  The whole concept (which has a negative connotation in some circles) about being “woke” has simply helped some people become in tune with what the truth of history actually is.  My parents reared me to always do my best.  They also taught me to humbly accept there would be inevitable disappointments in my life:  crummy boyfriends; jobs that didn’t work out, or things that just weren’t fair.  I am not sure whether or not I have written this before, but my father taught me there was one thing I could always do.  He said I could ALWAYS be the most kind.  That really stuck with me.  It has been sort of the one thing I could always control.  How I wish my parents were still living.  In this picture it shows my daughter wearing her favorite T-shirt:  Be kind to all kinds.  She took it to mean plants and animals, while I took it to mean all the people who have hurt and/or betrayed me in life.  This was also when our piano was being tuned.  The Nobel Prize winning Polish-born American Jewish writer, Isaac Bashevis Singer, wrote, “Kindness, I’ve discovered, is everything in life.”  Times change and, if we are in tune with them, perhaps we can hear/understand things a bit better.  Whether or not we agree with everything happening — we all can still be kind to all kinds.