Tag Archives: grieving a father
WITH ME WHEN I WAS BORN
When I have a song that “grabs” and uplifts me, I feel like every day is my birthday. Continue reading →
YOU’RE WITH ME – PART 2
This post is dedicated to my father. Today would have been his 89th birthday. One year ago today he went into a coma and died five days later. My song “With Me” was written a month after his death. Continue reading →
I ALWAYS KNEW THAT I HAD YOU
I had focused so much on losing my mother incrementally to her dementia. Now I had my father to think about. The aching feeling in my heart spread like tentacles throughout my body. I wasn’t sure what the ache was about. I thought about what I would write.
Then I heard music playing and realized that the words I was searching for had already been written. I decided that my recent song “You Were There,” applied to my father as well.
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