Screw you, Shakti Das! It ain 't happened yet!
The countdown has started...
The shamrocks and the party hats have hit the TV commercials and the shelves at WalMart.
This morning I looked up this YouTube and cried like a baby because Jo never got to see this one. She would have cried like a baby at it too.
http://www.youtube.com/embed/8oWeKyDC0w4
This piece is from Amy Grant's album titled "the Collection".Jo loved and memorized this whole album.
When it came to decide which one she would perform in public, this was her only choice. She said that this one was the only one that was enough fun for the young people in her audience to really enjoy. She was a very "savvy" 14 year old.
Most of my musician/readers can probably appreciate what a challenge a one piano accompaniment to this was for me. It took me the better part of a month to get it "presentable".
My musician friends also understand that making music together is an incredibly "intimate" experience and why it is that when I think of Johanna this melody starts in my head... and heart.
When Shakti Das stood in my kitchen and carped at me to "get over it" only one month after she was killed... I realized that he would never "get it".
It's been 18 years now. I've gone on with my life and I'm fine...
I've got my memories... but over it?
You don't ever "get over" the death of a child.
The shamrocks and the party hats have hit the TV commercials and the shelves at WalMart.
This morning I looked up this YouTube and cried like a baby because Jo never got to see this one. She would have cried like a baby at it too.
Click to viewhttp://www.youtube.com/embed/8oWeKyDC0w4
This piece is from Amy Grant's album titled "the Collection".Jo loved and memorized this whole album.
When it came to decide which one she would perform in public, this was her only choice. She said that this one was the only one that was enough fun for the young people in her audience to really enjoy. She was a very "savvy" 14 year old.
Most of my musician/readers can probably appreciate what a challenge a one piano accompaniment to this was for me. It took me the better part of a month to get it "presentable".
My musician friends also understand that making music together is an incredibly "intimate" experience and why it is that when I think of Johanna this melody starts in my head... and heart.
When Shakti Das stood in my kitchen and carped at me to "get over it" only one month after she was killed... I realized that he would never "get it".
It's been 18 years now. I've gone on with my life and I'm fine...
I've got my memories... but over it?
You don't ever "get over" the death of a child.