True measure of success.

Here's a look at the book at Over The Rainbow Toys. The staff have been playing the song over the sound system for people who look at the book! I walked in today (unexpectedly) and there was an elderly woman in tears because she thought the art work, song, and overall sentiment was so moving.

That beats any sales numbers we'll ever have.
Well done, all of us.
MJ

Working on a video

We are entrenched (in the trenches) with the video for "Goodbye" - a song we'll be releasing soon. The song itself is a straight shot about the breath-taking grief of losing a loved one. I gave myself some pre calculated parameters for writing about this subject; and I did manage to stay within them; but still I was pretty surprised with the song that showed up. I think assignments are good for me. Imogen Heap talked about doing something similar: she picks a key, a time signature and a tempo to write in, for example. Anyway, a powerful song showed up, and I have been receiving some powerful responses to it. All will be revealed soon. Lately I have been reflecting on how heavy the process has been for filming a video for this. We are using real friends holding pictures of lost loved ones, and the video is intense. I burst into tears while filming  a segment because a picture of my father was on the table in front of me. He died when I was 27, and I am now 46. The grief was just stirred up by singing "goodbye, goodbye" over and over. Kurt is doing amazing work as usual. We keep watching episodes of "The Trailer Park Boys" just to end up somewhere completely ridiculous and silly - far away from the pain, everybody's pain.