living sounds

Despite the fact that I should be writing a paper instead of procrastinating with YouTube,
I still get goosebumps and tears prick my eyes when I hear this.
There is something about the stylized playing, the German, the suspensions, the buoyancy
that goes right past the Kenner of my intellectual understanding,
and straight to the Liebhaber portion of my memory.
This morning it was Mahalia Jackson spirituals, Bobby McFerrin improvisations, and now this,
the faultless, inimitable Maggie Faultless (hat tip Angi!).
How lucky we are that we live in a world with so much variety,
with so much beauty, with so many ways to be alive!