@inthehands @jasonkoebler being part of a community orchestra gives me so much.
I can immerse myself in a community based on a shared interest. I collaborate and connect with them in a way that trandcends language. I can focus on a skill that isn't about survival, but about joy. I get to be competent at one of the few things long covid hasn't stolen from me. It gives me self-worth and self-confidence when both are suffering.
And this is just a tiny slice of my experience of music.