I still don't know who to thank for not dying before I learned about the internet and before I had access to this wonder that has fallen upon our world. I expect not everyone to be as ecstatic as I am, and, of course, there are many inconveniences that have come to us with the internet. They're right too.
I am referring here to the benefits brought by the internet and the fact that nothing can be good in its entirety and we have to put up with the bad in exchange for the benefits. Now I don't want to talk about all the benefits brought to the world by the internet. I don't know all of them, just as I don't know the dark side of the phenomenon.
I am only interested in the extraordinary opportunity we now have to access the "world's database". To each his own. Now I'm talking about music.
We have the opportunity to search and find whatever interests us. We find even more than we are interested in and we don't even have time to listen to everything we find.
On top of that, we don't need vinyl, cassettes, CDs, etc...
A simple internet connection and a smartphone and all the music in the world are at our disposal!
I find it incredible and miraculous!
I'm going back to a pleasant surprise, to this challenge launched by 
That's all we have to do, share three songs that mean something to us. I like that, I like to find a connection between the songs I choose and the simplest and strongest connection is when all three belong to the same singer. So far I am at that level in my postings.
For this post, I will ask my niece Ilinca for help. A help she gives me without knowing it, she is only three years and a few months old. I will only borrow her image, an image from my photos, of course. I will use some older photos from when Ilinca was two years old.
I know I have to write about music and not about family and children. That's what I'm doing, but Ilinca has her part to play in this introduction...
Ilinca is my only granddaughter. From the moment I became a grandfather my somewhat monotonous life as a pensioner suddenly changed.
I discovered something I didn't notice when Ilinca's father was as young as she is, and I was about a "mountain" of years younger.
I saw how a child sees the world, how she tries to understand it, to learn. How she lives without lies and pretense.
To make a long story short, I'm crazy about her and my desire to protect her is enormous. Because of this, when I listen to this Greg Lake song I can't help but cry!
Watching Over You - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
I watched her sleep many times and thought of the song above.
Nothing can be more enjoyable than watching a child grow up. It's not easy, especially when you're old and nervous, but you get a lot of lessons from a child who, of course, doesn't know he's giving them to you.
Getting back to the topic, i.e. music, Greg Lake I think is the voice I like most in rock music.
In the spirit of the three choices, I'd like to recall two more songs. Before I say that what these songs have in common is called: Emerson, Lake & Palmer!
From The Begining - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
This supergroup, EL&P!
Emerson and Lake died in 2016 and Palmer recently had heart surgery.
Palmer, who underwent an atrial fibrillation ablation to fix an irregular heartbeat, thanked fans for their support in a video posted to Facebook. “I just want you to know I’m back home now, feeling really good,” he said. “It was about a two-hour procedure,” Palmer continued. “And I’m just gonna take the next two or three days just to kind of recuperate. But all looking real good. Source
Life as a musician, at that level, is hard, with serious health consequences.
Without any relation to music, I, too, have the same disease as Carl Palmer and in a week I will see what the doctor decides about the surgery...
As EL&P would say... C'est La Vie
It's true, that's life!
