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Sal C. Cooper
Susan Abraham
I met Sal when I was at Oberlin College, when we were all supposed to live on campus and few people had cars. Sal, of course, drove an old red pick up truck which took us to yard sales and old diners all over northern Ohio. She opened the door for all kinds of ways we could create the lives we wanted and when she left for Virginia to work on a farm before she finished school, all of the other possible lives I could live became possible too. Nothing was better than the long winding conversations with Sal as we walked or drove or picked vegetables; that was my college. She was in heaven when driving a tractor (that grin!), and such a patient teacher, and the vegetables we picked together were miraculous and the most delicious meals I've ever eaten. Everything was infused with love and glowed like a Renaissance painting when I spent time with Sal (and her beloved dogs) and anything could, and did, happen. Her long illustrated handwritten letters and the pre-dawn good-bye notes left on my kitchen counters were as full of love and brilliance as her amazing hugs. Sal was like a planet or a gravitational pull that invisibly changed the whole world, and I still feel it.
Ivy Arce
April 7, 2016 ( day after her 61st birthday ), Lincoln Center Plaza. New York Philharmonic.
Ivy Arce
April 7, 2016 ( day after her 61st birthday ) Thursday, 9:45 AM Beethoven - Symphony No. 6, Pastoral, R. Strauss - Oboe Concerto, Liang Wang - Oboe
Sally's wish for her birthday via email : “they're playing Beethoven's Sixth Symphony - the Symphonie Pastorale, one of my favorites, and a Strauss Oboe concerto.
Sally's wish for her birthday via email : “they're playing Beethoven's Sixth Symphony - the Symphonie Pastorale, one of my favorites, and a Strauss Oboe concerto.
Ivy Arce
April 7, 2016 ( day after her 61st birthday ) Thursday, 9:45 AM Beethoven - Symphony No. 6, Pastoral, R. Strauss - Oboe Concerto, Liang Wang - Oboe
Sally's wish for her birthday via email : “they're playing Beethoven's Sixth Symphony - the Symphonie Pastorale, one of my favorites, and a Strauss Oboe concerto. Most of you work or otherwise have very busy lives, but I thought it might be a tempting break for a few hours? It's gorgeous and dreamy music and not at all work-like.”
I was tempted and it was deeply wonderful. I have very little - close to zero of music like this.It was exquisite. I did this no-no by recording some of that precious “working” rehearsals.. Friends of Sally's were lovely, the audience was wonderful music aficionados with NY flair.
Sally's wish for her birthday via email : “they're playing Beethoven's Sixth Symphony - the Symphonie Pastorale, one of my favorites, and a Strauss Oboe concerto. Most of you work or otherwise have very busy lives, but I thought it might be a tempting break for a few hours? It's gorgeous and dreamy music and not at all work-like.”
I was tempted and it was deeply wonderful. I have very little - close to zero of music like this.It was exquisite. I did this no-no by recording some of that precious “working” rehearsals.. Friends of Sally's were lovely, the audience was wonderful music aficionados with NY flair.
Ivy Arce
Sally also is embedded in Ahimsa's possibility. #grateful #socialjustice #compassion and #LOVE
Ivy Arce
Sally sent me this photo and it is titled : Beck loves Sal loves Beck on Isle au Haut ferry.jpg
Ivy Arce
June 16, 2016 trip to Dia Beacon Museum with Sally and Atom. Here next to one of the Serras. We talked about her new house in the beach and cork flooring and dancing. about family, about our mothers, how wonderful to have that moment was.
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Ivy Arce
1991 Chelsea NY .
Sally : " talk to him"
Me : " to who ?"
Sally "your doctor, tell him you don't want take that medication"
Me; " I can talk to my doctor? "
weeks later
Me " we talked and the doctor is furious"
Sally "you can fire him"
Me : " ... what ? "
Sally : " talk to him"
Me : " to who ?"
Sally "your doctor, tell him you don't want take that medication"
Me; " I can talk to my doctor? "
weeks later
Me " we talked and the doctor is furious"
Sally "you can fire him"
Me : " ... what ? "
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