I had a love once. The truest and purest love you can have. He is still part of my heart and soul. I wish with all my being I could turn back time and allow both of us to make better choices, but such are the sands of time. They must keep falling, and falling......
Both of us are in the same field: Music. Being a musician is a wondrous thing. The ability to create, influence and change lives is a feeling one cannot comprehend unless they are in the same field. But with it's highlights also comes it's downsides; pride, ambition and the most ruthless of all, time. Time was our biggest enemy, or should I say lack of. Being away too often combined with writing in our own personal universes destroyed us. We lost touch with each other as well as ourselves.
I sit here writing this now, knowing I will always love you and your family.
You will always be a part of me.
You will always be a part of my soul as I know I am a part of yours.
I will cherish the time we were able to be a part of each others worlds.
Now, I will at least cherish the friendship we still carry.

~The Shine~
There’s a place between waking and sleeping
A space where the land meets the sea
That’s where the shadows are keeping
The shine that you once kept for me

The stars are all laughing and twinkling
In a language they share with the moon
That’s when my feelings start thinking
Of the shine that’s abandoned my room

The shine
The shine
It dazzled from your sun to mine
The shine
The shine
Your luminous smile is sublime
And it glows from your bones deep within
Auroras were born on your skin
The shine
The shine
The shine

Where do you think we went wrong
Can we go back and watch it again
Can we rewind our lives ‘til the danger arrives
And erase it with a magnetic pen

There’s a sign in the shop on the corner
Its colors jump off of my floor
Maybe I didn’t love you the way that you wanted
But I’ve never loved anyone more

Gotta get away, got to take some time
Nothing that I say seems to change your mind
Everywhere I look is just a canyon
Where the sun don’t ever shine

By :Harper Simon

My lifetime may be just a speck of dust in relation to the total scheme of things, but a lot has happened in that little frame of time...and I was here for it.

The Fall of the Berlin Wall

1.Richard Nixon becomes the first US president forced to resign after the Watergate Scandal. * I was just a newborn.
2. Massive protests and either side of the Berlin Wall bring about the collapse of the East German Government and the Berlin Wall is breached and eventually dismantled and The Brandenburg Gate opened. *I was 15
3.Known simply as 9/11. On September 11, 2001 Nineteen hijackers simultaneously took control of four U.S. domestic commercial airliners. The hijackers crashed two planes into the World Trade Center in Manhattan, New York City one into each of the two tallest towers. Within two hours, both towers collapsed. The hijackers crashed the third aircraft into the U.S. Department of Defense headquarters, the Pentagon, in Arlington County, Virginia. The fourth plane crashed into a rural field in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, following apparent passenger resistance. *I was 26

So much has happened in my lifetime, I can only wonder what lays ahead. Whatever the future holds, I will be here for it.

If you could bring one fictional character to life for a day, who would you choose and why?

This is a very interesting question. I am sitting in an airport lounge with my laptop, a croissant and espresso while looking out a large terminal window at the snowy, freezing tarmac and pondering this. There are so may to choose from.

Would it be a dashing gentleman like Richard Collier from Richard Matheson's classic 'Bid Time Return'? Richard gives up his entire existence to travel back in time to meet a woman in a photograph that he had fallen in love with. It would be grand to be swept off my feet and to be loved not just in this time, but for all eternity. Ahh bliss.....

Then again perhaps it would be Robert Langdon from Dan Brown's exciting novel 'The Da Vinci Code'. It would be so enthralling to race against the clock in a mad dash to unravel the mysteries held deep within Vatican Walls and human perception as well. (It doesn't hurt that Langdon is also a great lover. A definite added plus!)

Harry Potter perhaps? I am sure that this would probably be a universal answer with Edward Cullen coming in a close second. While I too would love to visit the characters J.K. Rowling and Stephanie Meyer created, I think my heart yearns for something deeper in meaning then sparkling vampires and swirling magical spells.

Just as I hear my flight is ready to be boarded, I glance over my laptop to see a person sitting directly in front of me absorbed in a book I have loved since childhood: J.R.R. Tolkien's 'Return Of The King'. It hits me then, almost like being hit by Harry Potter's Expecto Patronum spell. If I could bring any fictional character to life for one day, it would be Gandalf The Grey from 'The Lord Of The Rings' trilogy.
Why? The answer is very simple: guidance.
In the series Gandalf was always there to lend his support and knowledge when things seemed impossible and downright hopeless. Even when faced with defeat and death, Gandalf still had the heart and courage to bolster spirits around him. One speech he made still resounds in my mind with crystal clarity. Gandalf and the hobbit Pippin are trapped in the kingdom of Gondor while the enemy is crashing through on the other side. Death is certain and the little hobbit, tired and terrified turns to Gandalf for solace. The following conversation ensues:



"Pippin: I didn't think it would end this way.

Gandalf: End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The Grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it.

Pippin: What? Gandalf? See what?

Gandalf: White shores, and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise.

Pippin: Well, that isn't so bad.

Gandalf: No. No, it isn't.”




As I close up my laptop to board my plane I see that the snow is beginning to melt on the tarmac.
No Gandalf, it isn't indeed.