My father, a soldier, was deployed(调度) again. The ukulele I had watched him play was_______. The musical instrument sat there lifelessly.

It came as a________because we had just moved into the present duty station a few weeks before. Still, _______was the thing that connected my father with Hawaii, a________   of his home and culture. We learned about our ancestors and family traditions________through his music.

This time, we were finally home in Hawaii and expected to ______a place that we’d only heard about in my parents’ stories. We were just arriving, but he was already ______to leave again, this time without us. Suddenly, we were surrounded by strange relatives and a cultural tradition of which we only knew the surface. We were______ in the family. The person who made us fit, our father, was gone. That was when______my father’ s ukulele. As I plucked(弹拨) the strings tunelessly, I felt______ to him and our Hawaiian roots. So I picked up an old song book, and I____myself to play. I would play and _____as if my father had been here.

After my father returned, he was ______ that I had learned so much. But what I really gained ______of was that music has the ______to do truly extraordinary things tying us to our culture and each other, our past and our present.

Mike Veny was walking to his truck one afternoon when he received an email from a colleague _________ that some information he needed for a project wasn’t available. Immediately, he became _________ and thought about a growing list of complains: a coworker who _________ him, people on the street were looking at him funny, his dad hadn’t _________ him all week... Veny, who works in a company that _________ mental wellness (心理健康), recalled, “Bad feelings stormed faster and faster until things _________ 10,000 times.”

_________, Veny had a plan for dealing with these. He _________ in the middle of the street to collect himself and then got into his _________. He thought about the answers to three __________: What do I feel? Anger, but also sadness at losing work and fear of whether I would get the motivation by going to the __________. Where do I feel it? In my chest and stomach. What do I need now? Time to feel the emotions rather than suppress (压制) them.

Next, he went to the gym. The music was loud and he became relaxed while he __________. When he got home, he did yoga, which he says helps him let go of his __________ emotions. In bed that night, Veny __________ he had a smile on his face. He said, “I felt like I was in __________ again, like I had taken my power back.”