Sometimes I think I must have the worst timing in the world. Recently, I searched for downloads of one of my favorite songs, Somewhere Over the Rainbow – the Isreal Kamakawiwo’ole version. It’s great. But I also found a version by Eva Cassidy, whom I never heard of before. Her version is just beautiful.

So tonight, I’m listening to her version and I start wondering who she is, what else she’s recorded, what she looks like, etc. And I learned that she died of cancer in 1996 — only 33 years old! That’s 10 years younger than me. How is it I never heard of her before 2005? Timing. I have bad timing. But she was incredibly talented.

Sometimes, life is beautiful in flashes, as if illuminated by lightning.