I’m writing this while visiting my grandmother for the first time since becoming a music therapist, so naturally the only luggage I flew with was my guitar. She lives in the same Vermont town where she taught kindergarten and piano lessons in the 1970’s, though she recently moved for the first time in nearly 60 years, down the street to an assisted living community. Her health has declined rapidly in the last couple months—the woman who used to be the most popular person in t