Strings and Communication

I love this image of the tin can "telephone".
I have been using strings to communicate since 1965, when I started playing cello. 

The vibrating string itself is a metaphor in my life.    The string is resonant and connects people whether it carries words or music.  The connections make a web; the string metaphor becomes stronger as it knits together diverse people who may only be connected by that vibration.

Blogs are "digital strings"  and they may resonate in an even wider and intangible way, but they can be powerful.  

The blog link below is written by a musician/professor who had a stroke a couple years ago. 

http://musicandstroke.wordpress.com/2012/11/28/the-trenches/ 

I discovered this blog because I was in Youth Orchestra with his wife.  She and I got re-aquainted on Facebook and met up at a conference last year.  The strings pull from the deepest parts of our lives.