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Wow, so many insightful things to comment on here. Some quite somber, so I'll stick with the whimsical.

>It looked kind of like a vibrating playboy bunny, with a big ear sticking up and another one out to the side.

I LOVED this image, and this ending. : ) Things like this kind of put life in perspective.

Karen, this is such a beautifully rich piece that you wrote and I don’t know where to start. For one thing, vibrato is more therapeutic than one might think it would. It gives me a good reason to practise it more these days.

The sudden passing away friends is really a tough one too. It always makes me feel, um, it’s just wrong.

Vibrato really comes and goes, for me. I had a breakthrough the day after I wrote this blog, but now I'm back to the same old same old.

Terez, thanks for your comments on the ending. I love how you are able to structure your blogs with a writers' touch, just building to the right pitch. (The one about the piano concert comes to mind). I tend to just write whatever comes into my head and want to try experimenting with more structure like that.

Ah, editing, the writer's best friend. : ) I'd be embarrassed to admit just how long it takes me to tweak my blogs. Guess I work with words the way others here work with notes and intonation. But I love reading both kind of blogs, actually. Sometimes the 'off the top of the head' ones can be just breathtaking in their significance and freshness. Especially when someone writes after a difficult experience. Particularly death. It's kind of the silver lining in the cloud, that experiencing death makes you experience life so freshly, and write about things with such piercing clarity and wisdom.

I'm rambling, and it's not even my blog. : ) Anyway, I love reading your blogs!