[출처 : 워싱턴 포스트] https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/06/17/trumpet-alzheimers-fundraiser-larry-kingsley/
He plays the trumpet nightly since his wife died, and has raised $15K for charity
“I know that I’m honoring my wife and raising money that will help somebody," said Larry Kingsley, who is a father and grandfather.
www.washingtonpost.com
# It’s been three years now that trumpet player and Air Force veteran Larry Kingsley has stood on a street corner for an hour at a time playing renditions of patriotic tunes in downtown Cary, N.C.
Kingsley, 83, used to play about three days a week, right next to a bucket asking for donations to benefit research for Alzheimer’s disease. That was when his wife of 23 years sat behind him in a wheelchair, snuggled under a blanket when the weather was chilly.
But when Georgeanne Kingsley died last summer from complications of Alzheimer’s, Kingsley found himself with some time on his hands, since he had been her caregiver. He decided to step up both his trumpet playing and his fundraising.
For the past nine months, Kingsley has been out on his corner every evening except Sundays and foul-weather days, playing tunes and hymns including “God Bless America” and “Amazing Grace.” The bucket is still next to him.
* foul-weather: foul weather is very unpleasant, with rain, snow, or wind
* rendition : a particular way of performing a song, poem, piece of music etc
* patriotic : feeling a lot of love, respect, and duty towards your country
a patriotic young Russian
* snuggle : to put yourself into a warm, comfortable, safe position, for example by sitting with your body against someone else’s body or by sliding your body down under the covers on a bed
I snuggled down into my sleeping-bag.
# His hour-long nightly ritual, a tribute to his lost love, has raised a total of more than $15,000 for Alzheimer’s research.
“I know that I’m honoring my wife and raising money that will help somebody — not her, but somebody — once they find out exactly what is going on,” said Kingsley, who is a father and grandfather.
His playing is part benevolence, part grief.
“You have to figure out, how am I going to use my time?” said Kingsley, who has lived in Cary, just west of Raleigh, for about 45 years. “God gave us X amount of time. I decided that I would go out there every night and play.”
About 6.7 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s disease, almost two-thirds of them women, according to the Alzheimer’s Association.
After watching his wife slowly slip away from him, Kingsley said he views his trumpet-playing as a ministry of sorts. Listeners often stop to talk to him or write him notes, telling him how much his music has touched them. Sometimes people share with Kingsley about how Alzheimer’s has stolen their own loved ones, he said.
“I like to converse with people,” Kingsley said. “I like to talk to people and find out what makes them tick.”
* converse : to have a conversation
'영어공부의 정석' 카테고리의 다른 글
| 영어기사 공부하기 : A shake-up at Alibaba (0) | 2023.06.21 |
|---|---|
| 영어기사 공부하기: How an ex-Googler is reimagining the oldest computing interface of all (0) | 2023.06.21 |
| 영어기사 공부하기: Help! I Accidentally Saw Some Very Compromising Photos of My Co-Worker. (0) | 2023.06.19 |
| 영어기사 공부하기 : Tech Layoffs Shock Young Workers. The Older People? Not So Much (1) | 2023.05.29 |
| 영어기사 공부하기: We Had to Leave the Bank (0) | 2023.05.29 |