Heart Songs
Greetings… I was considering the tragedy in Charleston, South Carolina this past week. I was also considering other tragedies in previous years…useless violence towards so many…in the Twin Towers, in schools, in churches, in other countries all over the world. People, children, and animals being violated in most horrific and even deadly ways. Man’s “inhumanity against man”. It made me remember a wonderful story I heard many years ago in 2002 entitled “They’re Singing Your Song”. I want to quote the story below because shortly after reading this story, I began to develop an unusual creativity when I would meet children or some adults that I felt a connection to. It was then that a story began for me to add to this unusual account of what I call “Heart Songs”. I would hear the music and lyrics to the heart song of a person. The first time I experienced this was with a small young boy in a preschool I was visiting while reading my children’s book, “Taryn Toad Tosses Pebbles”. He had disabilities but one thing he loved was music. He would always carry a small guitar to school with him even though he didn’t know exactly how to play it. When I … Continue reading