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I studied piano from the age of three. my grandmother taught piano. i stayed at her house during the day while my parents worked. i obviously wanted to learn to play. and so she asked if she could teach me, and my mother said don't you think she's too young. my grandmother apparently said no. so i could read music before i could read, and i really don't remember learning to read music. so for me it's like a native language. when i look at a sheet of music, it just makes sense.

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Condoleezza Rice

I studied piano from the age of three. my grandmother taught piano. i stayed at her house during the day while my parents worked. i obviously wanted to learn to play. and so she asked if she could teach me, and my mother said don't you think she's too young. my grandmother apparently said no. so i could read music before i could read, and i really don't remember learning to read music. so for me it's like a native language. when i look at a sheet of music, it just makes sense.

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My mother wanted me to learn how to read music. she'd given fiddles to my two older brothers, but they'd rebelled. i came along and my father said, "oh, let peter enjoy himself." what she did was leave musical instruments all around the house. whistles, marimbas, squeeze boxes, a piano and organ. by age six or seven, i could bang out a simple tune on almost anything. i developed a good ear, so i didn't learn to read music until i taught myself at age eighteen, 'cause i was hearing so many good songs i couldn't possibly remember them all.

I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. they don't teach you how to love somebody. they don't teach you how to be famous. they don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. they don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. they don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. they don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. they don't teach you anything worth knowing.

Meditation takes discipline, just like learning how to play piano. if you want to learn how to play the piano, it takes more than a few minutes a day, once a while, here and there. if you really want to learn any important skill, whether it is playing piano or meditation, it grows with perseverance, patience, and systematic training.

One thing i did have under my belt was, my mother lost her mother when she was 11. she mourned her mother her whole life and made my grandmother seem present even though i never met her. i couldn't imagine how my mom could go on but she did, she took care of us, she worked two jobs and had four children. she was such a good example of how to conduct oneself in a time of grief. when i lost my husband, i tried to model myself as much as i could on her.

I was raised by a single mom who had to put herself through school while looking after two kids. and she worked hard every day and made a lot of sacrifices to make sure we got everything we needed. my grandmother, she started off as a secretary in a bank. she never got a college education, even though she was smart as a whip. and she worked her way up to become a vice president of a local bank, but she hit the glass ceiling. she trained people who would end up becoming her bosses during the course of her career.

She didn’t understand why it was happening,” he said. “i had to tell her she would die. her social worker said i had to tell her. i had to tell her she would die, so i told her she was going to heaven. she asked if i would be there, and i said that i would not, not yet. but eventually, she said, and i promised that yes, of course, very soon. and i told her that in the meantime we had great family up there that would take care of her. and she asked me when i would be there, and i told her soon. twenty-two years ago.

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