Several people told me a story about some folks who heard heavenly music at two in the morning on New Year's Day. Furthermore, they all said, these people have heard it again every eighth day since. They described exactly when and where each hearing occurred. Some people laugh it off as the trickeries of wind, but I was reluctant to accept or dismiss the story without evidence. Heaven and earth are home to many mysteries. We all know stories of dancing girls who pour the morning dew from high above. Perhaps the spirits who observe from the corridors of the heavens, seeing a peaceful world, called for music to rejoice. And perhaps we who failed to hear it were deafened by our own suffering. - Issa