Elijah sways to all kinds of music from Verdi’s Te Deum and Widor’s Toccata to Johnny Cash at San Quentin. He moves his body to the rhythms. Always has. After a YouTube of The Flight of the Bumble Bee, I turned to Johnny Cash. “San Quentin, I hate every inch of you!”
Elijah doesn’t know that Grandpa and Grandma Stewart each served among the inmates of maximum security prisons like San Quentin in New York and Trenton, N.J. It doesn’t matter. All that matters is that Elijah already dances to the music of justice. Whenever I’m with Elijah, I experience a joyful Toccata!
Clinton Correctional Facility, Dannemora, NY (“the hell hole of the New York prison system”) where Grandpa once led weekly programs for inmates (1975-1977).
- Gordon C. Stewart, Chaska, MN, August 9, 2018.
Views from the Edge 
That little fellow has music in his soul. Give him an instrument and I bet he’ll start making music of his own. What. A wonderful smile, what a joy to have in your life.
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We’ve talked about that. I’d like to start him on the piano. If only Kristin or we had a piano! He IS such a joy, Maria.
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I didn’t know that. Wow! You two have done so much. And I can’t get enough of Elijah!
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Isn’t he something, Mona. Maybe Mr. Rogers had Elijah in mind.🤗
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