Rachael Jaeger

Magic Stirred in Me

Learning How to Play I can remember reading The Velveteen Rabbit. It wasn’t at bedtime. It was in the late 90s into the early 2000s on a dignified soft brown couch in my piano teacher’s living room. My older brother Shay and I took lessons on Wednesday early afternoons. What is more enlightening about The Velveteen Rabbit is the inner universal truths in it. But what surpasses those truths is my piano teacher who demonstrated them through her love and care and sharing her passion with me for music. It would inspire me with courage in my future path, but more importantly, she taught me the value in loving what you do.