07-09-2011, 12:01 AM
I never read nor really heard what the fictional Don Quixote was about but I did love the musical theme song to "Dream the Impossible Dream".. I used to listen to the music from "Man of La Mancha "--I remember as a 12 year old kid learning to play this by ear on our family's upright piano. Ten years later, I was in with the "crazies" at the psyche hospital. The staff put on talent night. I tried my hands at the hospitals piano and played "The Impossible Dream" from on Quixote.. I froze from the first chords from stage fright and went blank. Then suddenly I broke thru silence and quickly refocused started again from the beginning remembering the sound and lyrics in my head that I was so fond of. My attempt to recover and plough thru that silence was a very healing time, in retrospect.

