Blogging in B Minor

The National Brain Tumor Foundation and the Brain Tumor Society are launching a survey into the needs of the brain tumor community. From what I have read it’s one of the largest surveys attempted. I’m obviously going to participate and I’m getting the word out. So, please visit the NBTF web site news area and follow the link(s). As of the date of this post there is a link to a form to be “notified” when the survey is available (early March) – so that is any day now. If you are reading this later it may very well already be out there.

This type of information/data gathering is invaluable and will help serve not only our needs as brain tumor survivors but also those that will walk in our shoes in the future. Participate!

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I receive a lot of emails every day from people – a lot of brain tumor survivors, family members, friends of survivors and of course from fellow musicians. Every once in awhile an email comes through that really grabs my attention. Today was one of those days. Several days ago I received an email from a woman who explained that her father has colon cancer and that he was going to be leaving on a trip to receive some specialized treatment. She said that she really liked my song River of Faith which is the title track of my CD and that she had searched the internet high and low for the lyrics. She continued by saying that her family was getting together to see him off that she wanted to make a family circle at this get together, play my song and give everyone there a copy of the lyrics to take with them – as a reminder to hold on to strength and hope. I sent her the lyrics and told her that my thoughts and prayers were firmly with her father and her family.

Today she sent me an email just to thank me and said that listening to the song really touched her and her family’s emotions. What an amazing compliment and how humbling indeed. As a songwriter, certainly this is what we strive – to connect with people through our music.  For me, this song was really something that came in the middle of my trial and was my way of keeping the faith – not swimming against it but letting it flow.  What I was happy to hear is that someone else was able to garner the same strength, hope and faith from the song as I did. Of all of the songs on my CD, this song has also enjoyed some radio success. For me, this song along with The Messenger and Angels of the Night are closest to me for my own reasons.

Many times in life it’s the little things that make life worth living.

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