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Sep 23, 2007

"We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about." --Joseph Campbell

88 Keys To Happiness

Harlan Creech fell in love with the piano when Woodrow Wilson was president. It was 1920 and Creech was 8 -- a creek-splashing dreamer stuck with a squeaky violin his parents made him play. His sister got the piano, which sounded to him like a sunny day set to music. He's wanted to play ever since. Creech grew up to be a husband, a father and a Methodist minister -- a job where he made time for everyone but himself. Today Creech is 95, and he's just rediscovered that childhood dream. This inspiring story tells of his return to music -- and life.