A Personal Journey

As someone who has faith in the power of stories and songs – who believes in the might, magic, and mystery of loving and being loved – and who trusts that together songs sung, stories told, and love shared can lead us home – I’d like to welcome you to “Songs and Stories from Home.”

When I think of my life as going "out in circles like the growth rings on a tree," my high school classmates are part of the center of that circle, part of the Heartwood.

Though we may consider ourselves as "sick as our secrets" I believe we can also be a healthy as the stories we tell ourselves and each other.

This is a song about opening up and talking about things that are too often locked away.

This song talks about how it is never too late to offer and to receive grace.

What a thrill to sing one more time in the high school auditorium with the folks I sang with there 60 years earlier.

The song is meant as a tribute to special people and a unique time-and dedicated to those no longer with us-it is something to look at those experiences from the perspective of years later-with this reunion a chance to remember and be remembered