Edward Kelsey Moore Essay - My Father’s Effortless Cool

With Father’s Day approaching here is a repost of a short essay by award-winning author and classical musician Edward Kelsey Moore about his own father, hosted on the Minnesota Public Radio websites.  In the narrative E.K.M. shares a reflection on his father’s unflappable demeanor during a gory-but-brief family crisis: “I remember thinking, ‘Wow, my father is cool!’”  The essay was posted on the MPR sites last June, shortly before Edward’s second novel, The Supremes Sing the Happy Heartache Blues, was published.  You can read the essay yourself or listen while Edward Kelsey Moore reads it — and since the essay is short you’ll be done in about five minutes! 

Discover A Cellist's Appreciation For His Father's Effortless Cool, hosted (free!) at Classical MPR — by clicking here.  It is also available (free!) at MPR's sister-site, the music streaming portal, YourClassical.org.  Find it there — by clicking here.  (A new page will open.)
Listen to the (free!) audio of Edward Kelsey Moore reading the essay to you on either site by clicking on the box beneath his family photo.  The audio box shows the recording length, which is 4min 31sec.  
(If you can't hear it, check that the volume is turned up on your device. Sorry but we can't help with technical questions if it won't play.)

But wait!! There's more Moore! You can enjoy many previous essays written by Edward Kelsey Moore if you — click here!

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