the sounds of loss

-Like A FireCraker

State College, Penn. 1997? Photo by Marnie Goodfriend

I love this quote from my dear friend (and first post-college boss!), musician Brian Kelly:

“A loss never sits still. It constantly changes into something else, showing up in permutations. Songs are a chance to re-live life, an attempt to turn it into gold with some lighting. Music is closeness and distance, softening, solving and serving up lost feelings… the sound of bells dying off at sea.”
~Brian Kelly (3/4/06)