Thank you, Chuck, for your comments. I have written a check to John, and it is going in tomorrow's mail.?I will see what happens with the Foundation. Otherwise, a check will go to him once a month for a while, taxes be damned. Wim -----Original Message----- From: Chuck Behm <behmpiano at gmail.com> To: pianotech at ptg.org Sent: Fri, 1 May 2009 6:32 pm Subject: Re: [pianotech] Our brother's keeper - a perspective Just back from a long day of tuning. At 9 o'clock this morning, at my first job, I'm sitting at a piano with a half-round window over the back of it, looking out at the tops of the budding trees, and the white, fair weather clouds drifting lazily across the bright blue sky. From a nearby patio door, a chorus of robins outside and a refreshing hint of a cool breeze. I'm sitting in these cozy surroundings making a neglected piano sound musical again. What a great way to earn a living. As I tuned, I thought about how much John would love to be doing this right now. Just an ordinary job on a ordinary day sitting at an rather ordinary piano - what he would give to turn back the hands of time a bit so that he could be doing this very thing - what we do every day, and take entirely for granted. When I finished the job, my first of the month, I asked the customer to make the check out to John - I'll put it in an envelope and drop it in the mail the first thing in the morning. Maybe this isn't the best way? to handle this (I don't want to do it in a way that mucks things up for John from a tax standpoint) but it seemed such a simple thing to do - and it just felt so good to be able to do something, even something as small as donating a single tuning. Whatever works as the best way to make contributions, let's stay focused on what's important . We're out here, doing what we enjoy, and John, for a long time at any rate, will be struggling just to put his life back together. While we can't really fix anything, let's do what we can to help - give our financial and our moral support to a great guy who, were the situation reversed, would do the same thing for any of us.? Chuck -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090502/0420e08d/attachment.html>
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