Mary_jo, the best place for you to be is here, and here is where you belong. You can come "here" whenever you feel like it, and share your thoughts and feelings; you can share your music whether it's jazz or not.
I would like to share some music with you that's not jazz. This music takes me back to the very best time in my entire life; it was when I felt the most secure, it was before I knew anything about this horrible world in which we live, it was when my favorite aunt read me fairy tales from a thick white jewel encrusted book.
She would take off her big diamond ring that I liked to twist and turn under the light to see it sparkle while I nestled snugly in the crook of her arm. Fairy tale land was where all things were possible and there was always magic in the air, and that's where we were going.
"Andreas Vollenweider" takes me back to that time;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onp_uRj6FNEI saw him live once where I had a seat center mezzanine in a big theater, it was like being in the center of a gigantic speaker. I brought long range, and wide angle binoculars so that I wouldn't miss anything; the percussionist alone had a truckload of equipment and watching him was both enchanting and hypnotic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rywJpDYgAhQNo one knows better than me what a horrible world in which we live, and that was before the virus. I choose to leave it whenever I feel like it, and you can be my "Jade Princess" and come with me. I know Rok will object, but so what.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uZUnjGQ7-oWe have only just began our journey into other worlds between here and there.