Pictured from right to left, Cathy Barlow Garrison, Nancy Shearer, Jenny Cline, and Bill Hutzel (center) … Photo by Jack Shearer Click the play button below to listen In memory of Cathy Barlow Garrison, who passed away on Wednesday, November 23rd, 2016. Cathy always seemed to celebrate life. So it was fitting that the ceremony …
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Click the play button below to listen Let me start out by saying that this is a most unusual story. In 2018, while taking an online course on inner healing as a part of my Global Awakening School class assignments, I was required to write a letter to a friend. However, I did not have …
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Click the play button below to listen to the audio My Personal Testimony College became a new beginning for me. I found new friendships, and for the first time — unlike in high school — I began to excel in my studies. Like my father, I chose to pursue a career in music education, with …
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Click the play button below to listen Bring your voice. Bring your song. And yes—bring your flute, Peggy said to me over the phone. Of course I wanted to play. And I especially wanted to see Peggy again. It was 2017, and she was inviting me to Awaken the Dawn, a gathering on the National …
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CLICK BELOW TO LISTEN TO THE AUDIO In 1973, my classmate Stan and I had been appointed to music therapy internships at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Washington DC, a government-run psychiatric hospital for treating a wide range of patients, including those who were mentally deficient, mentally disturbed, deaf and blind, and those struggling with drug …
