And finding healing … One song at a time…
When I first discovered music… the first time I caught myself singing along with a song… I must have been around five. I remember feeling the vibrations in my chest and that they were somehow dancing with the melody I heard in my ears. I didn’t understand what was happening. Only that I loved the feeling of singing along with a melody. It made me feel like dancing…. it made me feel free like I had been given wings… it made me feel that I was connected to something I didn’t really understand. And that I needed to feel that feeling again!
A few years later… when I was old enough to attend elementary school… Mrs. Hendricks, the music teacher, was listening to all of us repeat a simple melody. There we were, one young second grader after another… singing the simple melody. I got picked to be in the school chorus! My life was about to expand! Also that year I discover harmony and am in my first band.
Move up a half a dozen years… my best friend passes from leukemia. How does a child deal with that? How will the pain go away? How can this happen? I write a song. “You’ve Gone Away” becomes my first musical composition, dedicated to my best friend, Vicki. Did it heal me? No… but I discovered a way to deal with the pain.
This video called “The Mountain” https://vimeo.com/22439234 …. a time-lapse movie of the world is a great inspiration for me. Enjoy.