Can Music Create Peace?

Musing on a big question, from The Beatles to Curtis Mayfield, Woodstock to Ukraine.

I was driven to the writing that follows firstly by the realization that I have been at peace the last few weeks with respect to my mother’s passing. The death itself was obviously a deeply saddening event, and the subsequent four long weeks until and through the funeral were emotionally draining, and there were lots of tears and heartbreak, and I don’t…