Sadness and Smiles

Sadness and Smiles Christmas season brings a spiritual subtlety of kindness and giving, minds somehow thawing from a year of national and international turmoil, a bleakness that the heart and soul rejects for this magical time when most of us honor the birthday of Jesus…the Man, the Deity, who lived among us and brought Faith […]

Music’s Message

Music’s Message  Do you feel lonesome and sad? Play Vivaldi! Or, play some songs by Tim McGraw. Do you feel angry, mad as hell, and not going to take it anymore? Play Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony. Or, play some songs by Toby Keith. Do you feel contemplative, pensive? Play Bach or Haydn. Or, play some songs […]

Melodie’s Magic

Melodie’s Magic Melodie had the face of an angel, her soft blue eyes and Madonna face framed with long blond curls and a smile melted the heart. There was instant magic the first moment I met this child of deplorable chance. By marriage Melodie was the daughter of the daughter of my wife’s step-mother. One […]