Jazz is Love

This weekend has been blissfully restful. Friday was a sleep in day, Saturday was completely free, and today we had minimal events.

The weather was beautiful yesterday so we took a long walk down to the MCC Thrift Store and I picked up a couple Spanish books so that I could start working language skills. The other treasure that I found was Scattergories… it had all of the pieces and I got it for a dollar!

Tonight has been one of my favorite evenings in quite a while. We basically had live jazz in our living room. Steve Klassen, who runs the Mark Centre, plays in a marvelous jazz band called the Mennonite Jazz Committee. It was wonderful to turn the great room into a coffee shop atmosphere, drinking chai, eating hazelnut cake, and hearing live jazz. There is nothing quite like a candle lit room, live music, a warm drink and being surrounded by friends. When the band took a break I spent quite a while talking with the bassist about how he began playing, about his double bass, and playing in a community orchestra. He told me that he had been playing the bass for over thirty year… I hope I still want to be playing my viola in thirty years. It was also just wonderful to have other people around. It was a bit like having guests in our home. We decorated, set out desserts and even rearranged the furniture. Tonight was a beautiful way to end the weekend and start a new week.

People are blessings, music is a blessing, jazz is love.

Mennonite Jazz Committee's Myspace