Jesse Cantlay, Erin Leahy, Sarah McLachlan, Ben Folds, Carole King, Journey, Reo, Elton John, Billy Joel, Chopin, Vince Guaraldi, Scott Joplin...I'd be lyin' if I didn't say New Kids on the Block and Paula Abdul when I was a punk kid puttin on shows for everyone I could find to watch me rock out. I know...I am ashamed.
I graduated in 2007 with a BA in religious studies, where I completed a four month internship in the spiritual care department of Vista Care Hospice in Phoenix. I am currently finishing up coursework at ASU for music therapy, and in July I will begin an awarded 6 month internship at Hospice Inc, in Poughkeepsie, NY. After this I will be eligible for board certification by the American Music Therapy Association. My goal is to eventually model the work of Mother Teresa who dedicated her life to giving the unlovable and unwanted people in the world a blessed death. As a trained music therapist with hospice/palliative care, I will be able to use interactive music to help achieve this goal of a blessed death: remaining aware, embracing death as a part of life, feeling meaningful in the world by leaving something behind, feeling loved and wanted, and letting go. Music has this safety net that fosters HOPE in what is unseen. So overall, I will see myself as a a type of musical midwife, taking those who are dying and leading them on their life journey as far as I can go before God takes their hand from me. This is why I will call my practice "Journey's End Music." I know this sounds morbid, but music is eternal. I believe people come into the world surrounded by harmonium and depart the same way. I heard of a man who died and came back after 90 minutes, and the thing he remembers most, the thing he hears everynight before he falls asleep, is the MUSIC. Of course that is what Heaven is. So I choose to make a life of trying to steal as much music from the Heavenly realms as the doors are opened by angels during a person's final days.
If you missed the newsclip, watch it here!!!
Performance from One Voice, Feed My Starving Children
why are you the sexiest, most beautiful and passionate woman on earth??? ....sometimes i forget how talented you are...please let me love you forever and make me the happiest man alive....i love you.
Why were we not friends sooner?! Oh well, but the newsclip was absolutely freaking awesome and after hearing your song on the Fairbrook CD, i have come to love it! It's so beautiful!!! ima miss you tons over break you professional woman you!
it a lot shorter in the back. I got at least 12 inches off the back so it SUPER short for me.. when I did it last time it was like a guy hair cut ha ha do you remember that? (it was right before I was 19) when I found out Patti had cancer...
i really enjoy your music. i'm glade that you found a path in doing what you love. lol, i remember when we told each other, "who will become famous first." i have come to an understanding...it is not about being famous but doing what you love and share that with others. take care and enjoy.
work in progess portrait fo Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
details....having a hard time with the hand. need to step away and work on something else for a while before i get back at attacking it again.
Lisa, I don't think we've ever met, but I just wanted to tell you how much I love and have been blessed by "Let it Flood"! Keep using your gift to honor your Savior!!
