MELODY FELLOWS 2012: Peace Frog Leap Year: JUMP

Leap Year—Go ahead and Jump February 29th, 2012

2012-03-01T00:36:00.001-08:00

So, if Van Halen can kiss and make up...they're coming here in June 2012 twice....then why can't you with me? You know who you are. I'll spare the names and protect the not so innocent...that would be me of course, not you.

Leaping comes around every 4 years for the divisible by 4 years thing cuz Julius Caeser said so in...a...45bc....SO, they'll be no leaping for you toddlers or embryo's whom may be hanging around for 2100, they didn't leap in 1900 either...I don't 'do' math past Algebra 1...besides, I keep great time and that's all a drummer worth their weight in gold drumsticks needs. If you can count to 4 or 2 twice and repeat to infinity.....or even 25 or 6 to 4......you'll be in Chicago in no time. I'm pretty sure that was an SAT question once. If you'd like to make sure I'm not lying and need proof I can count...go to my website and download one of my tunes. They're still free until my management looks at my own financial statements.

Peace Out....

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Peace in the Eye of the Storm

2012-02-10T20:41:00.000-08:00

EDITING....stage left....or maybe walk to your nearest exit? You know, I love viewing, processing and editing other bands live footage or even people's home movies/video...and frankly, it's pretty cool I do this really well; however, I LOATHE in every which way but loose viewing, processing & editing my own live stage performances. I absolutely LOATHE this and am unanimous in this opinion. Normally, other people are responsible for this in life and I'd get the final cut and say "cool or no way"...Well.....I'm "other people" right now. Ugh.....pugged....I am doing this and it is pretty cool. I'm following my own little ol' self & leading the way by living what I share with other people when they tell me they're afraid to do something they know they need to make happen. So, I'm living what I teach. I sure the hell don't & won't ever preach. I'm diving into this tumultuous wave with all blinders on and it's strange because I see crystal clear in the wake. I'm not remotely above water and am deep in the eye of storm. I'm moving with the storm though and taking the turns and dodging the hits as needed. I like this game. I play it well as long as I'm on key and okay with being the change when the key doesn't fit. That's it. Peace out

It's the time of the season for loving.....or Leaping through 2012

2012-01-01T10:50:00.002-08:00

Peace, it's back by popular demand

Look Through the Window

2012-01-01T10:41:00.000-08:00

What the world needs now, is love.....sweet love. It's the only thing, that there's just too little of......and how about we all just Look Through the Window....tell me what do you see? A beautiful planet......peace and harmony......Look Through the Window.......enter apropriate music here. Make it up if you don't already know it.

Peace Out as we slide into 2012

Peace Warriors

2011-12-22T04:21:00.000-08:00

Help heal a single soul or a single spirit. "Gift yourself" right now. Give your time to a person, non profit or group whom will reap what you will give them donating your expertise. You only get what you give. Give yourself to help anothers life this season. Just do it.

LOVE ME LIKE A 2012 ROCK of all ages

2011-06-05T00:47:00.000-07:00

Hey, shut up....don't lie to me...if you don't love me why don't you fade away? Ok, well....this little quip really works; don't say it out loud for cryin' out loud unless you're willing to live it. For me, it's a truth be known, not told. I continue to create what is needed along the path no matter which path I find myself walking, running, strolling, skipping or slip sliding away. Right now, I'm living the cliche' 'you can't pick your family, but you can choose your friends'. I have to add 'fans' to my cliche' I guess. Some of them through time, became friends.

The path still has numerous boulders to scale, jump, side swipe or smack right into in lieu of dodging some. I take them all on only when necessary. Sticks and stones may break the bones but boudlers can crush me if I let them so...I pick and choose the boulders on the path.

Surgeries seem to play roles like trips down memory lane I'll choose to forget sooner than later.....The whole "she's got a screw loose" thing is a valid thought. The screws loose in String Theory fashion are titanium....plates. The jawbone's connected to the tooth bone...the tooth bone's connected to the maxillofacial bone blah blah blah...It grew back with a bit of a bummer learning that takes time...like 1/2 a year.

Well, 2012... out here in California right now, it's sunny and warm like spring...hmmm, last year this same time we set a record in San Francisco's East Bay for rain fall. It hasn't rained in June since 1992 hence...Juneuary. My Z3's driver seat was filled with water when I came out from coffee to the car. I'll have to get over this surgery thing and find someone to seal the convertible top by the window with some silicone so that water doesn't drip in. It usually rains inside my house too. I've sat with the umbrella up and pots and pans on the floor catching the water as it falls. Right now, the tarps are keeping it dry inside here and am happy for this. I would love to have a real roofer do the job, but for now....money is not gowing on my trees that are taking over due to all the rain. Funny, it's good I love water, the ocean, walking in the rain on Siesta Key or Boracay getting drenched. The wood to burn in the backyard behind the pool is completely dry and stacked perfectly and covered with their own tarps with perfection....yet it rains in my car while I drive and it rains inside my living room but dammit....my wood is dry so I can fight fire with fire in my fire hazard property needing the landscape people. I've gotta find some money to pay these guys to make my place no longer a fire hazard. I just found out there are 2 previous Christmas trees in the very back of the property. I thought they had been discarded....that was the anwer when I asked those years. I can't even fathom how fast this would all go with a careless match. I don't smoke, it won't be mine. Putting this one on the front burner...no pun. I walked my property yesterday with intent to gather a bunch of the dead branches I could carry to burn in the fireplace during these cold rainy days for the next few. I've been extremely neglectful in this area of late.

My nephew or technically 1st cousin once removed graduated from High School today from Fishers High School in Indiana. I so wish I could have gone and had a ticket from the ticket I blew for his Eagle Scout badge ceremony. What a fantastic spirit this one. I'm so sad I couldn't make either work with the bombs going off last year and now the boulder jumping goin on this year.

Well, I truly do not know why I upkeep this Paper Blog Writer thing since last Century. Perhaps it's just that I talk to myself when there's no one left to talk to...people aks me why, why I do the things I do....Okay, I don't echannel Bobby Brown very well but hey, it's my preogative. :-P Maybe, I just like to talk to myself?

Thunder only happens when it's raining.....well, I hear that is true...but it does not thunder here, it just rains. No lighting strikes either. Now Florida is a different story and fits the first line. I've got a Twitter account with 4 people which is stellar in my book. I don't follow, I lead and hanging with leaders is fantastic period. Be a leader, always.

Peace out People...if you know my new phone # that began today January 1, 2012....then we're connected.

Peace and love out...

Ho Ho Ho---Go GIANTS

2010-10-23T21:18:00.000-07:00

Full moon's obviously work very, very well for California and any wandering Giants spiralling ecstatically toward homebase right now. Ah hoooh Werewolves of London...huh, draw blood.......

Summer Breeze

2010-06-22T23:07:00.000-07:00

This world is rocking more than rolling near July, 2010 in more ways than one

The Peace Mission

2009-07-21T19:30:00.000-07:00

Jared Edmund Raye Teigen,

You are 25 years old this summer of 2009. July 13th/14th, 2009...you left following your quest for peace. The day the first man walked on the moon 40 years ago July 20th, 1969 is the same date so many of your friends and family of friends gathered together & honored your presence in their lives held in Southern California. Both are equal in unbelievability that the experience even occured in our worlds.

Your favorite song when you were 5 or 6 was "California Dreaming"; all is how it should be. Whether you are with me in Phoenix, AZ or our altering Gaza Egypt dream, Amsterdam, Siesta Key, Fla or Denver, Co....you are simply forever in my heart and in my soul.....I will miss you, but "you" are very near. I will finish the (not done) song you gave me for Christmas "Behind Every Corner". You will always be my first born #1 pseudo son. Love has no limitations; let's continue The Peace Mission. Carry on wayward son! I love you with all of my heart.

Fleetwood Mac Unleashed Tour 2009

2009-05-23T00:35:00.000-07:00

Awesome show. Songs played they've not ever played on stage before like "Storms". Lindsey was in rare form on guitar and vocally. They did a nice tribute to some Chris McVie tunes also who no longer tours with the band. If you get a chance to go....shell out the dough to see it. You would not notice this wasn't the Grammy year 30 years ago at all. Had fantastic seats...only show that compared in the last few months was seeing James Taylor at the Greek play for 3 hours with a ton of all stars making appearances. There's a reason all the acts from the last 40 years like the Stones, Billy Joel, Elton John, America, Tina Turner, Heart etc are still touring. Because they still rock. Not much music going on right now minus for example: Diana Krall, Alison Krauss with Robert Plant (Led Zeppelin). Well, Green Day has the #1 CD right now, but even they're a 15 year old band. Metallica is even touring & they're an "old" band at this juncture too. Music isn't dead if you just look around & listen for it.

Liked seeing the Mac back Wednesday night at Oracle Arena so much; bought a house the next day!

April Flower Shower Power?

2009-04-14T22:40:00.000-07:00

It just got through hailing the size of very large whirled peas here in California and in two days it will be 80 degrees. I've not ever seen it hail here at all in the area in which I live. Weathering storms or Heights is just what the doctor ordered...either that or eat a few apples to keep them all away. Summer is around the corner and very welcomed. I love California; however, Siesta Key, Florida is always on my mind. I have seen it snow there a few times though.

Taxes were finito on time this year and Xmas cards actually went out in the year they were written. Wonders never cease...let it snow, let it snow, let snow. With the economical issues at hand; these truly were little itty bitsy spider miracles at work. Charlotte had a web long before anyone ever did.

Mark Costner Rocks On Water

2008-09-12T14:28:00.000-07:00

Hello, thank you to all the people whom sent good vibrations to my cousin-in-law Mark through his 5 stages of cancer treatment. Again, his own Blog is beyondthatrise.blogspot.com

He has been given the diagnosis of remission now and cleared to "get on with his life". Thank you for using this forum to help a person move through their difficult journey. We all get by and move on with a little help from our friends and family.

Peace out and thank you

Biting Time while Biding it--Always Follow Your Heart

2008-07-08T11:26:00.000-07:00

Here's a scoop to update those of you not receiving email from me right now: This is what happens when you don't trust your intution and assume people in the medical profession are qualified. I had a third surgery to fix the first "botched & ruined" ones in April and May on a wisdom tooth yesterday. So much for being wise. Such incompetence from two separate Endodontists is appalling. I will work much harder on following my heart in the future no matter what and get up and walk out of a hospital or procedure room even if it is embarrassing. I knew both times that these two surgeons were not qualified to handle what was needed. The second surgeon didn't know how to turn on the "new video" machine to view the tooth; the assistant had to show him. Being new to the office, wrote a pain Rx afterwards on a Friday evening wihtout having his name on the Rx pad. The pharmacy would not fill the Rx as it is illegal to write prescriptions unless your name is on the Rx pad. Aleve & Advil were very helpful though. After this comedy of bloops and blunders, I had a 3rd and final surgery yesterday and I won't be moving much for a few days. They say 'three' is a charm and this last surgeon definitely is just that. I am ecstatic to finally have found a qualified surgeon from my own generation who told me how "horrid" and "aggregious" both procedures were. The new doctor said it was if I'd been hit with a "shotgun".

This was very difficult but actually not as bad as the second surgeons antiquated brutality. He graduated Endodontic school when I was 2 years old. Age is not the factor here; however, these first two surgeons are beginning their 7th decade in life. I believe they had good careers; however, I question their sight. It is clear neither were able to handle new dentistry practicing (operative word) their old school thinking and practices. I had faith and trust in my surgeon yesterday; I did not at anytime have that 'feeling' with the other two during any moment....it was 'guesswork'....The 1st & 2nd surgeons both missed filling the fourth root canal leaving it open as if it had not been done allowing a raw nerve to be exposed. The surgeon yesterday said he found cotton in the gum-line left from the previous surgeon which was causing the infections in the tooth and sinus area.

A second root canal done on the same tooth and then another apicoectomy were redone in one sitting to get it over with...the skilled surgeon yesterday also removed the 'shrapnel' both previous surgeons left inside the rooth canal and gum-line. I am optimistic and trust this new surgeon's competence and skill. ALWAYS, trust your first initial feeling. ALWAYS!

Tucson or Two Son's in One "The Graduate"

2008-06-03T11:25:00.000-07:00

Thank You For Giving

2008-04-05T13:47:00.001-07:00

Wow, the answer my friends, is blowing in the wind. And you probably thought it was a 60's tune....or that Puff the Magic Dragon lives by the sea.....

FlOCK OF SUNSET-Siesta Key 2008

2008-03-28T23:14:00.000-07:00

"Take

Home"

Melody

Peace out

Siesta Key, Florida 2008

Tank Yu Tumas Kyra & Clington @ FM107 in Vanuatu- You Rock On

2007-09-23T13:22:00.000-07:00

Hello there. How are you all? Skiusmi, sori tumas, my Bislama is not gud yet. Lukim yu next September 2008 for your Fes Napuan Music Festival. Tata til then. To my United States friends and family of fans, I am recently home from singing on one of the most beautiful islands in the world called Efate Island in the country of Vanuatu located next to Fiji. My Producer/Manager and I were interviewed live on the air with Kira & D on Capitol FM107 in Port Vila, Efate, also the Country's most popular Pop/Rock radio station. Go "Fis". The goal is to return for Fes NaPaun next year which is a huge music festival I've been asked to return to play. The people of this country are remarkable and I am living a dream since I was ten to be able to be here and play for these wonderful people. Peace Out!

Vanuatu Living My Dreams

2007-09-23T02:04:00.000-07:00

Halo Halo. Wow, what a trip this has been. The Rolling Stones said "what a drag it is getting old" and now they're all old. I wonder if the remaining Beatles feel the same about "will you still love me, will you still need me....when I'm 64". I'll research that one and get back to you as I've got a long time before that finding Melody's answer to that lyric. Music has nothing to do with age and those bands repetoire are proof in the pudding. I've only just begun this magical mystery tour and I plan to continue it as long as I am able to bring the music to the people. Thank you for all your hospitality Vanuatu. I will be back. Peace Out to you!

DAME MELODY DOWN UNDER

2007-04-26T00:59:00.000-07:00

HELLO, to you. If you are here; you know Melody. If you are here by webben-stance (my word in my world); your best option is to move on quickly and proceed in your own life with vigor and a fair amount of caution. I'm merely a stand-in for this option. 2007 has unveiled many things thus far with the next phase having me returning to Australia. I have loved playing music in this country and look forward to just experiencing this country on this adventure. I will be playing some music; however, it won't be my original music as "Melody Fellows"....this will be Melody following the rhythm......and the beat does indeed go on. Isn't that the way it should be? Gee, maybe I'll write a song with that title and tour with it at another date.....ooh, this just in....I've been there and done that. I am here now to show the minor facts in your life are actually the major chords waiting for you to play them.
Peace out
Melody

Walk This Way or Run With The Devil on Skid Row?

2007-02-15T01:01:00.000-08:00

Life in the PAST lane....surely makes you lose your mind. Does anyone really know what time it is? Does anyone really care....about time..............Chicago Chicago...obviously, I digress.

Sometimes A Cigar is Just A Cigar---Up in Smoke

2007-02-14T23:34:00.000-08:00

The first time I moved to California my world changed tremendously. The second time I moved here, it altered forever...and they called it Charlie..........ew...don't bring that scent back....but it did help hide the smells of certain unidentified aroma's of the times...From there I went Hart to Hart and now here I am again on Valentine's Day just looking for a Heart With Heart. Global warming should help out at this juncture of course. Peace Out

January 29, 2007

2007-01-29T22:31:00.000-08:00

This has been a wonderful weekend. My Dad and his wife Linda flew out from the east coast to San Francisco's west coast just to catch up on each other's lives the past few years. We spent the day at the Ferry Building and Pier 39 not to mention Ghiradelli square yesterday. This afternoon, I went to Peet's coffee place in Clayton and one of the staff handed me a card my Dad had left for me as they left for the airport this morning. His card was very poignant and I am glad we both took the time to forge the relationship we enjoy with one another. I find this a bit rare based on my knowledge of other people's relationships with their own fathers. We both have had bicoastal catastrophic experiences regarding severe accidents and we both have gotten closer and bonded more so than could be imagined. This visit was good for my soul and I for one am grateful we all hung out together.

Flocking Seagulls in Siesta Key

2007-01-19T12:05:00.000-08:00

I spent 6 weeks in my home away from home in Siesta Key Florida in October and November, 2006. The quartz sand does wonders for the soul. I am living it up at my other home in Hotel California near San Francisco right now. I have begun to fly once again but only in the States....I enjoyed making the trips to Maine, Florida, Colorado and Arizona in 2006 and am moving on from there to travel even more in 2007. Not too shabby for someone who isn't supposed to walk for 5-7 years. I do encores too. :-P I spent a lot of time with my Godparents Julian and Elaine last year which was so nice to be able to do. They stayed in my condo for a bit too. If you know me and wish to see that beautiful island, all you need to do is let me know and email me or call using this thing called a telephone. I'm all Bluetooth so your calls are welcome. My wish is to connect with even more relatives and new friends this year. While in Colorado for my Valedictorian niece Kelley's High School graduation as a Boetcher Scholar Like her brother T.C. who is working on his Masters at 23 at London School of Economics. Yes, bragging included. He's fluent in Germany too so his schooling there last year was a breeze hanging with the locals as if he were one...turns out....he is. Mike found a photo of his Grandfather in 1908 while surfing virtual bluetooth waves on a website and by chance and could not believe his eyes...he did not even own a picture of his Grandfather and was floored to put it mildly. This has opened a floodgate to his realitves in Germany & Bulgaria within the Zoeller family ......I intended to connect with my very own Mothership while in Denver, but my ship arrived two days before Mom set sail for Port Texas. This port contains precious cargo with her second in command to the throne along with 4 special heirs to her heart whom I plan to see this year. I won't be as equipped though....Preparing your ship properly for 4 hungry kids waiting for your homemade turkey soup you made does indeed take some planning. I hope the kids enjoy the real treat they get by having yummy food hand driven to their doorstep...now that's first rate delivery service.

I am continuing to relearn music again this year and went to the Warfield to see the almost reunited Axl me no questions and tell me no lies about a Gun's N Roses show. I Went with a friend & former guitar player in numerous of my various bands gone by. Thank you Dougie for sticking with me. I did some hocus pocus upon arrival and pooftwo backstage passes enabled us to watch Axl's tantrums with closer acuity. Doug's jaw can still be found on the floor next to the mixing board...we didn't have to stand smashing pumpkins elbow to elbow with the sold out crowd and dined at our own table . Sebastian Bach of Skid Row still adores himself and was the opener. He & I go way back stage after he opened for the Aerosmith show at the Cow Palace in the early 90's. I wonder if he'll ever close? The entourage all adjourned to the infamous Mitchell O'Farrell Brother's lets say....Gentlemans Club after eating at Mel's Diner with Amber Lynn posing as Queen of all things in her floor length fox fur she let me use for the night. More of her was able to be seen by her fans of her great films none of whom could give me a name of one. I believe they are all called XXX and Double DDDX. For those who don't know Mel's Diner...at 3 am it's packed on any night. (no, no realtion to Melody btw...the famous diner of course) Normally, people in the fame world would be noticed but not one person gave Steven Tyler or any other members of Aerosmith or Skid Row the time of day when Amber was in the room. Apparently, she's near and dear to every male who had that classic Farrah poster or Carly Simon's We Have No Secrets album cover as their reasons to exist in the 70's. I left a few days later for Siesta Key and lo & behold...across the country in all the gin joints in all the world...Sebastian had to walk in to mine at Maximo on Siesta Key a block from my condo in the Village. He does not remember our first meeting conversation perse but he was asking certain women their hourly rates that evening with Amber Lynn and I politely informed him he hadn't enough cash to spend the evening with me. I then walked wtih Amber and her enterouge to our hotel with her fox coat on and 30,000 she made at the 'club' that night in a briefcase I had in my car. Aerosmith went to an AA meeting after that and I went back to life, back to reality...back to the here and now.

I wish to return to Makati/Quezon City PI to see my friends Rey & Maricar. I would also like to see Mom, Aunt Judy, & their my first cousins Car, Jen & Ali with my sisters Amey, Blake & Erin and niece & nephew's Kensey (my Almost Perfect Angel), Maren, Prather, Corbin, Ferris, Griffin, Paige & P.J. not to mention more wonderful cousins Andy & Liv, Charlie, Annie, Grace, Ellie, Danny & William & more nieces/nephews Kelley, Travis, Ginny & Scottie. I'm always in pursuit of new friends or long lost relatives I've not had time to make time to see since my accident. I had such a nice time with some 2nd cousins & some 1st cousins once removed in Maine & hope to follow suit this year with even more by connecting with my Ingraham side of the family ties. Hi Helen, Harriet, Robbie, Diego, William, Sarah, William and Samuel........all you 'fellows' rock. Finally, the first 19 days of the year will be spent looking forward to my Dad flying out from Maryland next weekend. We won't be painting the town red but I'm sure we will leave some parts of our hearts in San Francisco taking in some sites. Well, that's all for now. It's too late baby now, it's too late.........and I really am going to make it. I'm living proof wonders never do cease. Peace Out

p.s. Happy 44th Birthday to my middle first cousin Jenifer Generator aka Jenifer Fellows Hunt, Jenifer Hunt Costner.....Love, Mel Cooley aka Melody Fellows Skinner, Melody Fellows, Melody Fellows Griffin, Melody Fellows Prather......find Waldo...I've only been married one time so with all these names, maybe I am working on my Sybil impersonation with Sally Field...no, she's too busy Flying Nuns with Norma Rae chasing Smokey & the Bandit with Gidget.

Just Like a Melody, Nothing Else Matters

2005-07-30T16:31:00.000-07:00

Then Again, We All Matter--Mad Hatter Out

Well, I’m on my way to Stevie Nicks’ show at the Chronicle Pavilion. I used to work backstage guarding nothing in particular before and during shows there in 1995 when it was the Concord Pavilion. I played table tennis against John Denver once backstage...I think I got in trouble for that one...for singing with the Temptations and for parking my convertible BMW in the backstage lot instead of walking all the way up...worked for me...but oh well. I am what I am. I’ve loved Fleetwood Mac since the late 70’s. I remember watching the Grammy’s when I was a kid and seeing they had won Album of the Year for 1977 with Rumours. I was hooked ever since…well…maybe a bit before that. I remember hearing Frozen Love in the middle of the night while awake as normal listening to a DJ play what was an obscure record to him at the time called Buckingham Nicks from "way back in 1973"….this was around 1975-78 of course so the hunt was on for me to find that album with Stevi (with an I) on it...which I later got a cassette tape of it and then the album and now made a CD of it in the studio since they've never released it digitally.

I am almost 17 months into my recovery from my motorcycle accident or was it really an accident experience. I went to Fleetwood Mac last year 3 months after the accident in California as a 'pep me up' from Michael and a former guitar player in my band named Doug…didn’t understand much, which killed me. I’m still deaf from the pavement meeting my head unexpectedly so all sound is nothing but inaudible noise for me to decipher now. I hear things, but none of it makes sense. It’s a bit like learning a new language or being dropped off on on an island where no one speaks your language...I've done this before so it is exactly like that. I need to feel music again. Fleetwood Mac music was my lifesaver for me the first time my world was rocked during some pretty rough heavy 'Jesus years' as a teen….I’m hoping I feel Stephanie Lynn Nicks tonight…. The music I sing most likely will not reach the millions others have; however,....I bet you Stevie, Janis, Billie or Sheryl doesn't have a Banca boat in Ioilo, Caticlan or Boracay named after them in say any random little Third World islands near you. Help me come in out of the darkness. Years disappeared and much has gone by...since then. I'm on the edge all right and 17 has nothing to do with it. I'm just trying to rock on like a true Gold Dust Woman should. I play for free and my fans all live in trees or have passed on...but it's all the same...I sing for the things money can't buy...in real life...for the love of the passion you're given in life....Mine is music. I wish to feel it again.

2005-07-01T02:30:00.000-07:00

It's July 1, 2005 and the world keeps spinning and I didn't die---well, technically I did...twice that night, but who's counting---crows or feet? I'm just scaring the hell out of them or eating them in my own blizzard of Oz zone. Listening to any crows in nests or bars would be nirvana...but my teen spirit got up and went long before I became a crash test dummy dying to hear Mrs. Potter's Lullaby or Landslide one more time. I'm creating this thing because I write everyday anyway as a way to help heal my heart and what's left of my soul since I lost my hearing, broke my back and spirit and can't or won't try to write/sing/play or listen to my music I've played all over every Third World country near you...not to mention my now defunct band/s since I became a motorcycle accident (or was it) passenger SOUL survivor last March 13, 2004. I never heard music when I listened to it anyway....It was if I were a part of music...I felt it...it is still inside me and now it is killing me softly...Melody doesn't live here anymore. She exists in theory, and that isn't working for me. I just want that feeling back and I'll go away happily. I'm trying to find a way to live through this experience. The glitter fades; but I didn't. Anybody can sing...but there's only one MELODY. That is I.