Sweet, Sweet Conversation

Today I finally listened to this podcast from last week of the Diane Rehm Show, featuring bluegrass (or old-time mountain music) legend Ralph Stanley. Listen to it twice: first for the great content and stories from a serious music legend, and second for the aural experience of hearing radio's most beautiful voice in conversation with the gnarled, slow voice that to me epitomizes Appalachia. What disease and age have done to the vocal apparatuses of Rehm and Stanely respectively is remarkable, and left me with a feeling of equanimity towards all life's "constant sorrows," disease and age included.