[pianotech] Our brother's keeper - a perspective

[Avery Todd]

Well, maybe I *shouldn't* wait to hear about the Foundation thing.

Avery Todd

On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 12:19 AM, <wimblees at aol.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
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