Wonderfully moving account of your tour Susan! Thanks for sharing this. In my work as an expressive dance artist working with older adults, I continue to honor the sublime embedded in our musical embrace of the heartbreak we all encounter in this world. Your book Bittersweet played an important role in highlighting this truth as I was defining the core of my dance mission. Music, like Leonard Cohen’s, is my muse and occupies a discerning place in my playlists. I was able to thank you once at a Quiet Life community gathering a couple of years ago. I’m happy for this opportunity to share my appreciation again!🙏❤️🌞+🌘
Thank you for sharing your pilgrimage to Montreal's Leonard Cohen. As a Montrealer (now living in Vancouver) and a Leonard Cohen devotee, you brought a special spark to my Monday morning.
The blessings of music, what a gift, how able it is to touch us. This memorial comes to me at a moment where another giver of music I know isn’t doing so well. My mother is most aptly captured as a person of music. At 98 years old, she still plays the piano for her group at the old folks home every single night. She can only see out of one eye, and not very good out of that one. Can barely hear, her memory is shot, but the amazing thing is she can recall every single note to any song requested, and one by one requests ring out, and she begins to play them… hymns, the old romantic WW2 songs, all of them. What a gift, and what a giver. Glad you got to go there, Susan, I know how much he means to you.
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So beautiful! Thank you for sharing.
Wonderfully moving account of your tour Susan! Thanks for sharing this. In my work as an expressive dance artist working with older adults, I continue to honor the sublime embedded in our musical embrace of the heartbreak we all encounter in this world. Your book Bittersweet played an important role in highlighting this truth as I was defining the core of my dance mission. Music, like Leonard Cohen’s, is my muse and occupies a discerning place in my playlists. I was able to thank you once at a Quiet Life community gathering a couple of years ago. I’m happy for this opportunity to share my appreciation again!🙏❤️🌞+🌘
Thank you for sharing your pilgrimage to Montreal's Leonard Cohen. As a Montrealer (now living in Vancouver) and a Leonard Cohen devotee, you brought a special spark to my Monday morning.
The blessings of music, what a gift, how able it is to touch us. This memorial comes to me at a moment where another giver of music I know isn’t doing so well. My mother is most aptly captured as a person of music. At 98 years old, she still plays the piano for her group at the old folks home every single night. She can only see out of one eye, and not very good out of that one. Can barely hear, her memory is shot, but the amazing thing is she can recall every single note to any song requested, and one by one requests ring out, and she begins to play them… hymns, the old romantic WW2 songs, all of them. What a gift, and what a giver. Glad you got to go there, Susan, I know how much he means to you.
Beautiful pictures and writing. Thank you.
What an inspirational, uplifting, almost sacred way to start my week! Thank you, Susan.
Oh my god, Susan. What a great story. And so timely for me. My Sunday article was about his Hallelujah.
Here it is, in case you are interested. https://substack.com/@walkwithmeekb/note/p-224109151?r=1equza&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
Thanks for this post. Now I want to go to Montreal and see all of those places!
Susan, thanks for sharing, based on your view, he was of course creative. His life is about a story of success and a guide igniting the life way.