I don’t know what the singers are saying as they jockey the German around, I just get lost in the sound.
They stand heroically, and sway with joyful importance as the swirling strings soar and tympani roll and bassoons pump away.
And I’m not sure it matters that I don’t understand the words.
There is no single way to describe love because if we did we’d stop trying; no absolute way to express joy.
It is what fills us.
And hollows us out in its absence.
It is loss we define precisely, measured to the minute; how it weighs down the spirit, hides within the justifications and how we walked away, yet left wondering.
It is an answerless thing, both ponderous and weightless, contradictions contained, each taking and giving, and in between that space, we live.
Rise.
We stand with feet anchored in muddy boots and heads drifting in aerial clouds, wanting both to be anchored and dreaming.
Rise.
Release and rise.
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About michaelstephendaigle
I am the author of the award-winning Frank Nagler Mystery series. "The Swamps of Jersey (2014); "A Game Called Dead" (2016) -- a Runner-Up in the 2016 Shelf Unbound Indie Author Contest; "The Weight of Living" (2017) -- “The Weight of Living” was awarded First Place for mysteries in the 2017 Royal Dragonfly Book Award contest;
Named A Notable 100 Book, Shelf Unbound 2018 Indie Book Awards;
Named a Distinguished Favorite, 2018 Independent Press Awards.
Named a Distinguished Favorite in the 2018 Big NYC Book Contest.
Named a Finalist in the 2019 Book Excellence Awards.
Named A Gold Star Award winner in the 2020 Elite Choice Book Awards
Named a Book Award Winner in 2021 by Maincraft Media Fiction Book Awards;
The Red Hand (2019) a Distinguished Favorite in the 2019 Big NYC Book Contest
Named Second Place winner for mysteries in the 2019 Royal Dragonfly Book Awards
Named a Notable 100 Book in the 2019 Shelf Unbound Indie Book Awards
Named a Distinguished Favorite in the 2020 Independent Press Awards
A Nominee in the 2020 TopShelf Book Awards
Named A Gold Star Award winner in the 2020 Elite Choice Book Awards
Dragony Rising (2022) First Place for Mysteries in the 2022 Royal Dragonyfly Book Awards; named a Notable 100 Indie Book in the 2022 Shelf Unbound Indie Book Awards; A Distinguished Favorite in the 2023 Independent Press Awards. A Distinguished Favorite in the 2023 Big NYC Book Awards.
Michael, 1968 nschs is hosting or 50th reunion this year. you are on the list as one of our class members I hope wew have contacted the correct Michael Daigle. Please respond to our class email. thank you. nschs1968@gmail.com.
we also have a fb page nschs class of 68