Pieces of the puzzle

Symmetry has been on my mind a lot this week, the way things in life fit together. A small example--this morning, I woke up a little too early, thoughts swirling in my mind. I couldn't calm them. I turned on the radio, and hear this beautiful song, lead by a great piano. It lifted and calmed me, putting my mind at ease. Then I listened to the chords a little more closely. Ah, that's what it was. John Coltrane's Naima, which earlier had the same effect on me, at about the same time of morning. This time around, it was McCoy Tyner, a one-time bandmate of Coltrane, playing. (On the original song, Tommy Flanagan has piano duties.) There's some comfort in seeing how the pieces of the world's jigsaw puzzle fit.