Trombonist, Artist In the boundless heavens of work we are afforded one form of bliss that surpasses all others: that something first experienced much earlier is returned to us and can now be grasped and assimilated into the self with the love that has in the meantime grown more just. That is when our divisions begin to be adjusted, when something from the past returns as if from the future; something accomplished as something yet to be completed. And this is the first experience that positions us, out of sequence, at that spot in our our heart that is in space and always equidistant from everything and subject to rising and to setting because of the unceasing movement around it... - Rainer Maria Rilke I am well aware that the reader does not require information, but I, on the other hand, feel impelled to give it to him. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau