Years ago, I discovered that I had a "knack", if you will , about discovering things. I've always liked to think I 'm "observant", that I notice things around me and that I'm aware of my surroundings . You know, the usual sight and sounds of the forest, etc. But the other day, I "re-discovered" something that I have sorta forgotten about: Beauty..... not beauty as in a georgeous, hot sexy Woman, but another kind of "beauty", " inner beauty". I have a next door neighbor , her name is Cristine. She is afflicted with a learning disability and Downs' Syndrome. Her face is disfigured and she is not easy to look at. I have known her for years .Whenever I have a chance, I look in on her to see if she needs anything and to make sure she's okay. She's probably about 40 or maybe 50 years old, I'm not really sure. I've always helped her carry groceries and things like that ( she's pretty much self-sufficient, even with her limitations) . The Ambulance is always coming next door for her, as she has "spells". She is one of the "sweetest" human beings that I will ever have the privalege of knowing. Anyway, I walked by her the other day and said Hi to her as I have on many, many occasions. I had just then gotten home from the Hospital after having surgery ( an Angioplasty) and I was feeling sorry for myself and digging up all the bad memories of being in a place I hated to be, and she turned to me and said Hi back to me with a smile that could've healed an entire continent... The "beauty" that this Woman posseses "within" her simply cannot be defined. At that very moment, I said to myself : I just met the most beautiful woman in the world, and she smiled at ME...!!!!!!!!! If I have forgotten what beauty is, real beauty, "inner beauty", I will NEVER look at beauty in the same way ever again.............. not ever. I feel enlightened and honored to know this type of person, and to "know" that she (and millions more like her) are spreading LOVE and PEACE to us all in this "forgotten" world of pain and suffering......
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I really want to thank ALL my friends who have stuck with me, and who have believed in me. I've played my music in campsites, around bonfires, at picnics, private parties, on stages, but never anything real big, until now..... to know that there are people out there who really like what I'm trying to do, and like the message I'm trying to send, fills me with a kind of "inner peace" that I have never experienced before. My songs come "from the heart" . I really do "feel" them.... to hear applause before I even get up onto the stage is a "high" you can't get from anything, anything at all. I want my fans/friends to know that just knowing you're out there listening to me, and supporting me and my music, gives me courage to do it, knowing that if I "screw up" it's okay... When I play now, no matter where it is, I'll just pretend that I'm playing to you all as if you and I were in an intimate surrounding all by ourselves. So to all my friends, and to all my fans, thank you for letting me entertain you .......................
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Discovery?
Years ago, I discovered that I had a "knack", if you will , about discovering things. I've always liked to think I 'm "observant", that I notice things around me and that I'm aware of my surroundings . You know, the usual sight and sounds of the forest, etc. But the other day, I "re-discovered" something that I have sorta forgotten about: Beauty..... not beauty as in a georgeous, hot sexy Woman, but another kind of "beauty", " inner beauty". I have a next door neighbor , her name is Cristine. She is afflicted with a learning disability and Downs' Syndrome. Her face is disfigured and she is not easy to look at. I have known her for years .Whenever I have a chance, I look in on her to see if she needs anything and to make sure she's okay. She's probably about 40 or maybe 50 years old, I'm not really sure. I've always helped her carry groceries and things like that ( she's pretty much self-sufficient, even with her limitations) . The Ambulance is always coming next door for her, as she has "spells". She is one of the "sweetest" human beings that I will ever have the privalege of knowing. Anyway, I walked by her the other day and said Hi to her as I have on many, many occasions. I had just then gotten home from the Hospital after having surgery ( an Angioplasty) and I was feeling sorry for myself and digging up all the bad memories of being in a place I hated to be, and she turned to me and said Hi back to me with a smile that could've healed an entire continent... The "beauty" that this Woman posseses "within" her simply cannot be defined. At that very moment, I said to myself : I just met the most beautiful woman in the world, and she smiled at ME...!!!!!!!!! If I have forgotten what beauty is, real beauty, "inner beauty", I will NEVER look at beauty in the same way ever again.............. not ever. I feel enlightened and honored to know this type of person, and to "know" that she (and millions more like her) are spreading LOVE and PEACE to us all in this "forgotten" world of pain and suffering......
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Thank You.........
I really want to thank ALL my friends who have stuck with me, and who have believed in me. I've played my music in campsites, around bonfires, at picnics, private parties, on stages, but never anything real big, until now..... to know that there are people out there who really like what I'm trying to do, and like the message I'm trying to send, fills me with a kind of "inner peace" that I have never experienced before. My songs come "from the heart" . I really do "feel" them.... to hear applause before I even get up onto the stage is a "high" you can't get from anything, anything at all. I want my fans/friends to know that just knowing you're out there listening to me, and supporting me and my music, gives me courage to do it, knowing that if I "screw up" it's okay... When I play now, no matter where it is, I'll just pretend that I'm playing to you all as if you and I were in an intimate surrounding all by ourselves. So to all my friends, and to all my fans, thank you for letting me entertain you .......................
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