Hike with OMP

Today I got to go for a short hike/walk and informal picnic concert with some wonderful young musicians from Opportunity Music Project.  I am constantly grateful for the way these courteous and musical individuals teach me more perspectives on life.  From a young high schooler from Uzbekistan, to his friend recently arrived from Venezuela, to the father I shared the car ride with who told me of the life he shared with his son, to the people in the front seat, one from Japan, the other from China, and the kid who I had coached to play his sixteenth notes with gusto who chose to sit next to me to eat his calzone.  Other children came to show me the young toads they were catching, many of them chased one another around the picnic area before they were cajoled into playing a short concert between the drizzles.  It is wonderful to have an organization, especially in the midst of the stresses of New York, that treats both music and people with such humanity.