Daily Zen - Thursday, April 25

Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.
                      ~ Ella Fitzgerald

Ella Fitzgerald, the "first lady of song," was born on this day in 1917.

I couldn't take my eyes (or ears) off this video clip of her performance of Summertime (Berlin, 1968). The tiny beads of sweat trickling down her face in the tight camera shots and her three octave voice - it's sublime and a little surreal, and there's not a note out of place.