Paying a tribute

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Eva Cassidy. I was listening to her again today, and each time I hear her beautiful voice singing her renditions of remakes and originals, I think of her life, and how it was cut so short. She was so earthy and real. So humble and in love with music it's astonishing.

She died in 1996 a victim of cancer as so many are, and at the young age of 33.  Now more than ever, even 14 years after she has gone, people adore her and her music. Her ability to put so much emotion and feeling into "Somewhere over the Rainbow" and "What a Wonderful World" is...well...there really are no words I can come up with to describe it. All of her songs are that way. I have yet to hear a song of hers I don't like (unless I didn't like the song itself to begin with).

I hope that I remember to live my life with the same amount of passion she had for her family and music. I have so much that I want to do, and so much that I dream about, and I am not getting younger. I still have every intention of living my life and making my own dreams come true. Waiting for them to happen is not going to make them happen. I want my children to grab life by the horns and have the ride of their life. When it's their time to go, many, many years from now, I want them to go saying "that was AWESOME!" The only way to teach them that is to do it myself.