"Beautiful in every way"

Images

• Comparing the Naptown Strutters performance tonight at the Anderson Paramount to my memoris of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band's performance at Preservation Hall in the French Quarter in New Orleans just a few days before Katrina hit.
• Grandpa Martin standing up to dance a few steps during an especially lively polka at downtown Anderson's very own bavarian Octoberfest.
• Going to see It's a Wonderful Life last December on a special day in Detroit in an old theatre similar to the Paramount in many ways and coming out to at least four solid inches of snow with more falling every minute.
• The portrayal of Edith Piaf singing in La Vie en Rose.
• The band performing "What a Wonderful World" at the jazz bar in Klaipeda, Lithuania.
• The wonder of perpetual melancholic nostalgia accumulated over a life of 80+ years.
• A house, 3 months lonely on Annabelle Street in Ferndale, Michigan.