I heard that a friend of mine is getting remarried. He turned 80 last year. I am entranced by the idea that he has fallen in love again, even more so, that he is looking forward. What a wonderful thing to want a new chapter in your life, especially at that age. It just goes to show that you can’t keep the human spirit down. It can fly free, no matter when, and no matter what the odds are against it doing so. Not that it is always so. There is a curse on many folks that I know; those that have previously given their hearts and souls only to have them crashed on the rocks along the shore. Turbulent seas make for gun shy singles.

Jude Johnstone came to see us during the filming Music Fog did back in May at the Cherokee Creek Music Festival outside Llano, TX. Jude dug in for a song that was originally released on her debut album Coming Of Age, in 2002, “Wounded Heart.” She played this most heartbreaking song, of damage impossible to repair. Sometimes the wall is just too hard to scale. If it sounds familiar, it is because it was featured in the Lifetime/ABC television series Army Wives, but the sentiment is not relegated to just one sector by any means. If there is one thing I wish you as we approach the holidays, it is this. Let your heart be light. Allow for the possibility of love in your life. It will thaw you, it will make you feel like anything is possible, it will make you whole. Let love in.

- Jessie Scott