Wow,
building this web site is an incedible new beginning; looking back over literally hundreds of songs from the past 20 some odd years, it truly has been a long and winding road.

To those around us who have had access to these songs we wrote,
mostly through private small gatherings, and  usually around 2 or 3 in the morning! We want everyone to know that these songs are filled with your smiles, your dreams and unfortunately some heartache. But what didn't kill us, has really made us closer and stronger.

On so many of those nights back in the old neighborhood, the guitar would come out, and songs from the heart would sing out into the night. (you can find the song with music on our music tab) For those who were there, these songs are truly the soundtrack of our lives.
we are so grateful that we were a part of something, that always had live music.

The following story was not written by Robert Thomas of the Associated Press.
I wrote the story myself, cut and pasted it into a newspaper format, and emailed it to several friends and members of my family The responses I received were ones’ of sadness, and others of thanks for the blessings they felt.


Forever love forever young
By Robert Thomas
Associated Press 2006
All rights reserved

Daniel Ryan Bristol was diagnosed with terminal cancer on May 9, 2004.
He was given just 6 months to live. He was 7 years old.
A young nurse of just 24 became his constant companion throughout his journey of pain and sickness. After just ten minutes of meeting her, he told her he loved her, and that he would live for her, and some day they would be together forever. For two more years, Daniel fought the disease that had brought him to the brink of death several times, somehow always recovering to tell the young nurse that he loved her and that he would never leave her. On May 2, 2006 after leaving Daniel for just 10 minutes, another nurse returned to Daniels room to find the following poem laying beside him, Daniel had written the poem and died in that ten minutes. As the nurse ran out to alert the doctors, she was met by another nurse who came to her crying; the hospital had just received a call that the young nurse of 24 had been killed in a car accident. She was on her way to the hospital to see Daniel on her day off.

How shall I find the dream of the heart?
From where the road begins
To the moment we shall part.
How shall I speak of life,
from where the morning becomes the night.
The sun a golden song, the melody of love.

Where may I lay my soul,
When angels rest their sacred role,
Can rain become my cleansing sail;
To fall beyond the guarded veil?.

Has no one heard my shallow breath?
My misery can not confess.
Each moment’s tears like drops of faith,
I remain forever but leave this place.

Such beauty I will always know,
You are a part of me wherever I go,
For a word can never fully live
Without the truth you always give.

For just a moment our paths have changed
But my love for you will still remain
Up ahead in the healing light,
Once again you will be in my life.

With great appreciation I would like to personally thank the Bristol family for giving me permission to tell Daniel’s story and reprint his poem of love.
My sister, Lisa Angel Thomas spoke of your son with such love and compassion that we all felt her happiness in knowing him. We truly believe they are together forever.
Robert Thomas (associated Press 2006)