Got Happy? It is an amazing thing to be happy. But how do you know if your happiness is true? True happiness , as with love, is realized once you can let go of the thing that is the source of your   more...hapiness. If the object of your happiness returns to you, you can experience true joy in knowing that it was meant for you to have this thing that brought about happiness. For two days...I was without my music as my equipment (which is used to process ) was acting up. I was out of my regular sort (didn't know how to act). In that short time...after praying for a miracle (to put it lightly), I began to migrate towards other activities (which was not easy at all). But when I chose to let the music go free for that time...it miraculously came back to me (in the way of my equipment being healed....THANK GOD!!! ;) Hey...I just know that my stuff was working after almost being brought to tears about not having it to produce music. I then realized how "happy" I was to be back in the flow, back in my element, back to doing the thing that brings me passion ~ doing my music. This song is actually what came to my mind during this time. It was intended to be a "happy" song, but for you, let it bring you to happy times in your life (both in times past, as well as the happy times to come). Let this song serve as a reminder that being happy is a choice...a choice that needs to be chosen regardless of if you are dealing with things either within, or beyond your control. Being happy is within your control; choose it freely and wait for it to freely come back to you. It can become the strength you never knew you had....this is another show! We shall talk later! Take care and enjoy my friends. Mel :)  less

This guy is going places.

This is the story of a wonderful Birch tree that had become old. It was dried up and dead looking as well. Lynn and Missy were ashamed to even get caught looking at it. This tree had to go....in order   more...to make room for the new tree.....what a sacrifice. Are you that willing to sacrifice everything, or anything you know and love for the sake of another? You don't hear about that anymore. Gone are the days when real people knew what sacrifice meant...and was still willing to do it for the greater good of another. Gone are those days.  less

Another fav

I found some shoes today!!!!

This is a clearer version. Now that I have upgraded, I can move bigger files....thank God!

Exactly that!!!

Continuing

Don't you love walking under the "boardwalk?" Don't you just love the fresh cozy air, the friendly, loving people, the rides, the campfires, the ocean, the food, the food and most of all, the   more...food? Lynn and I just happen to go to the coast for our anniversary month (Sept...8 yrs). On the last few roads trips, we have managed to catch a little board walk~time....as we would pass by (on the way back home). Missy can only remember the last few times in her almost seven years of riding along. Although Missy's attendance has changed the nature of our road trips from "Lynn and I" time, to "okay...it's all of us now" time, she has only added to the total enjoyment of getting away...and getting out there! There is something about the boardwalk that she plugs into; between all of the things to see, taste, and do, Missy becomes an aesthetic sponge and soaks it all up with eyes wide open! It is so hard to explain...you really have to just be there with her to experience the crazy fun she brings. It will turn you all into big kids guaranteed. Missy is the official owner of the boardwalk venues. She OWNS the board walk. She loves everything about it...and loves being in the midst of all the friendly people. This song came to me as I sat and thought about how Missy's soul was left...back at the place that I now consider "Missy's Boardwalk!" Please enjoy my friends!


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My musical tribute to a departed friend...more details later.

This is the cover song by the group Chicargo. I wasn't really sad in this video.....just playingthe part. Lol.

In His House Are Many Mansions...all His gifts are your inheritance...because you and The Father are one!



Some of the mansions in a local area. I hope to go to a place some day..."Of Many Mansions!"   more...
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This video was too big....so it had to be uploaded in poor quality. It's quality, or quanity.

This is a song I produced for the inspirational singer / friend Brigid. When I completed this video, I realized my love for music all over again. Now, I plan to really push my music...so get ready....cause   more...it's going to happen right now!  less

I have always loved this song. It seems especially true for today....I can feel something is brewing up in the air....and the wind will blow out the old and usher in the new. I have to have the faith   more...to believe that. Wow!  less

Some pics of my little girl!!!!

This is a mixed moment of paradoxes for me; my two greatest influences have both died almost within months of each other (Michael Jackson and Wayman Tisdale...the bassist). I am saddened by the loss...yet,   more...I am ...
This is a mixed moment of paradoxes for me; my two greatest influences have both died almost within months of each other (Michael Jackson and Waymond Tisdale).I am saddened by the loss...yet, I am happy....for the wonderful gift of music I am left with to share. Enjoy this tribute...as it is the first of a series.....with many to come.
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This is part of a nature series I will be doing. enjoy!!!!

It's a long story!!!!!! based on a true event.

Love traditional Christmas songs.

I wanted to just do a jam featuring MY NEW FRETLESS JAZZ BASS! Yeah! Anyways....do you ever feel guilty when your spouse is cleaning the house...while you are just playin your new fretless jazz bass...and   more...having fun on Live Video? Well, that was the point of this song; this song is not dedicated to all the hard working folks out there that clean the house, but to those IN the house that feel guilty about it, while they sit peacefully in the back yard....with their new fretless, Fender jazz bass. Cheers mates! (Truth be told...I do help out with stuff. I just wanted you guys to have something to laugh about for a second. I do all the outside work. Just ask Lynn :)  less

Just being crazy

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Dream...



Dream what you want to dream;
Go where you want to go;
Be what you want to be,
Because you have only one life
And one chance to do all the things
You want to do.




May   more...you have enough happiness to make you sweet,
Enough trials to make you strong,
Enough sorrow to keep you human and
Enough hope to make you happy.




The happiest of people don't necessarily
Have the best of everything;
They just make the most of
Everything that comes along their way.




The brightest future will always
Be based on a forgotten past;
You can't go forward in life until
You let go of your past failures and heartaches.




When you were born, you were crying
And everyone around you was smiling
Live your life so at the end
You're the one who is smiling and everyone
Around you is crying.




- Anonymous
I won't allow ANYONE to seperate me, my life, my sense of my world from that which I dream about. For some people, dreams are all they have to hold on to. For others, if you take dreams out of their life, they will have no life. I can talk on this all day...but bottom line; you have every right to dream. Dream for a better tommorrow, a better understanding of what you do not yet understand and a better you. I thank God for letting me fly as high as I want to fly....I am thankful to "DREAM!"  less

We had a lot of fun making this one. But sheesh! All the gas it took to get to all these different shooting locations....but you guys are worth it! We knew we would be seeing you guys again. Bottom line...anything   more...for a friend, i.e., a prayer, a hug, money (not too much though...Lol), or just some love and support, we find ourselfscoming over there and meeting the need"Time After Time." Hey...we have been blessed greatly...so to much is given, much is required. We know that to be true and are use to it. :)
"Time after Time" was a single by singer Cyndi Lauper, the second from her She's So Unusual album, and it reached #1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 charts on June 9, 1984. The song was at #1 for two weeks and to date is her second highest charting and most commercially successful single worldwide after "Girls Just Want to Have Fun," also reaching #3 on the UK Singles Chart and #6 on the ARIA Singles Chart.

"Time after Time" was nominated for "Song of the Year" at the 1985 Grammy Awards. The ballad is considered a classic of the 1980s and is still played frequently on adult contemporary radio.



Written by Cyndi Lauper, Rob Hyman
Produced by Rick Chertoff
Executive Producer: Lennie Petze
Associate Producer: William Wittman
Engineered by William Wittman
Arranged by Cyndi Lauper, Rick Cherto  less