Steve López

Negativity is never an option

It's more interesting to be out in the world. than to see it reflected in the mirror.

It is possible to cause seemingly biochemical changes through human emotional involvement. You literally have changed his chemistry by being his friend.

.. a friend is someone who inspires, who challenges, who sends you in search of some truer sense of yourself..

Without a mission and a sense of whom you write for, you aren't worth reading.

Your violin has only two strings,_ I say. __ou__e missing the other two._ Yes, he says. He__ well aware. __ll I want to do is play music, and the crisis I__ having is right here. This one__ gone,_ he says of the missing top string, __hat one__ gone, and this little guy__ almost out of commission._ His goal in life, Nathaniel tells me, is to figure out how to replace the strings. But he got used to playing imperfect instruments while taking music classes in Cleveland__ public schools, and there__ a lot you can do, he assures me, with just two strings