Emma and Franz were sitting in silence embracing the moment. They both needed love, kindness and acceptance, but also someone to love, to share good and trying times. They both have been scarred from their suffering and grief, the nature of their traumatic experience were not nearly the same, the nature of the source was different. Pain cannot be measured, a profound emotional happening would penetrate and rip the strongest person apart. Where does one get the strength to persevere…..
It is said “Children make nice music and music makes nice children.” During my harrowing ordeal in war-ravaged Europe in WWII, music was instrumental to my survival,” because music is part of nature and it mixes emotions organically into a whole, unlike words, which categorize our emotions, organizing them into compartments so that we can better understand them. The emotions of war cannot be understood,” (page 154). It is so important to introduce music to young children, it opens another…..