I started keeping a journal again last month, and I dedicated a page of it to “Things I Learned.” Here’s what I wrote in it:
- The state motto of Kansas is “Ad Astra Per Aspera,” Latin for “To the stars through difficulty.”
- “One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you’re into jazz.” – Lou Reed
- “Learning never exhausts the mind.” – Leonardo da Vinci
- “Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.” – Nina Simone
- “impecunious” means having very little or no money usually habitually
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