sometimes it is the artists task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left.
1.\t如果你曾经参加过小提琴家伊萨克?帕尔曼的音乐会，你就会知道，这对于他而言是一项不小的成就。他从小就受到小儿麻痹症的折磨，所以他的两条腿都戴着假肢，依靠拐杖走路。他走起来非常痛苦，很艰难，走到椅子上以后，他才慢慢地坐下来，把拐杖放到地上，解开腿上的扣子，把一条腿缩回来，再把另一条腿往前伸展，这样才能弯下身子拿起他的小提琴，把它放在下巴下，再向指挥点头示意，开始他的演奏。
2.\t有一次帕尔曼举行音乐会，当他在舞台上试图走向他的椅子时，舞台下一片寂静。等到他坐到椅子上，观众们才开始有动静。但在演奏中发生了一件意外，帕尔曼刚拉了几下，他琴上的其中一条琴弦断了。
3.\t那晚，观众们想，他得再找一把小提琴，或者修好他自己的琴。
4.\t但帕尔曼并没有这么做。他停顿了一会，闭上了眼睛，然后示意指挥继续。乐团开始演奏了，他从之前停下的地方拉起。他的演奏竟具有压倒性的激情、力量和技术。
5.\t当然，要用三根琴弦弹奏出一首交响乐是不可能的。但那晚的帕尔曼拒绝接受这个事实。人们看见他在头脑中调制、改变、重组了音符。在那一刻，那乐声听起来像是他让琴弦演奏出了人们从未听过的弦律。
6.\t当他结束演奏的时候，台下是一片充满敬畏的沉默。接着，人们沸腾起来了，狂热地欢呼着。礼堂的每一个角落都传来不平凡的掌手。帕尔曼微笑着，掠去了礼堂的喧嚣，说到：“你们都知道，有时候，在你丢失的音符处继续创造音乐是最好的艺术。”
Beauty 她很美
1.\tThere were sensitivity and a beauty to her that have nothing to do with looks. She was one to be listened to, whose words were so easy to take to heart.
2.\tIt is said that the true nature of being is veiled. The labor of words, the expression of art, the seemingly ceaseless buzz that is human thought all have in common the need to get at what really is so. The hope to draw close to and possess the truth of being can be a feverish one. In some cases it can even be fatal, if pleasure is one’s truth and its attainment more important than life itself. In other lives, though, the search for what is truthful gives life.
3.\tI used to find notes left in the collection basket, beautiful notes about my homilies and about the writer’s thoughts on the daily scriptural readings. The person who penned the notes would add reflections to my thoughts and would always include some quotes from poets and mystics he or she had read and remembered and loved. The notes fascinated me. Here was someone immersed in a search for truth and beauty. Words had been treasured, words that were beautiful. And I felt as if the words somehow delighted in being discovered, for they were obviously very generous to the