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Today is a huge day for me.  While I continue to work a 9-5, it’s clear that I have other talents that I need to be sharing and ways that I can serve people.  More importantly, I feel a huge need to do this.  I told a friend the other day who had a slight breakdown at work that she needed to start considering building her own business because she has so much to offer.  I asked her, “how long are you going to make the rest of us wait until you start sharing the best of you?”  I feel like I need to take my own advice there.

Today I’m beginning to offer my musical services to the world...

I wrote previously here about how the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary affected me.  I think a lot of it had to do with the age of my kids at the time.  I had a heightened sensitivity to violence against children because I had a child the same age as those who were killed.

Since then I’ve reluctantly followed the information that’s been released and arguments about gun control.  I’ve felt impressed to contribute positively to the conversation as best as I could, so I wrote a song.

I thought about a metaphor where we liken children to plants and parents are like farmers.  We guard and tend and plant as best we can and we hope our efforts result in a tall tree or good fruit of some kind...