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Tuesday, June 23, 2009

This is the song that Emily and her friend Christina composed the music and wrote the lyrics to for their graduation. They, along with another friend Adam, auditioned for the privilege of performing it at graduation as the "Senior Singers." Sometimes the best laid plans go awry. At 4:30 that afternoon they did a sound check and everything was perfect. Sometime after the sound check and before they performed something came unplugged or something. If you listen closely to the video you'll hear, "yeah, we're done probably." You'll also hear cracking noises.  That's the keyboard. One friend of theirs actually thought the keyboard was set to "cracking noise." We don't know quite what happened but we know how it turned out. Great! Luck is when preparation meets opportunity and that's what happened this night. Adam, having practiced and doodled for countless hours on the guitar, was able to pick it up, improvise and accompany the song. He saved the day and for that we are all really, really grateful. During the song you'll hear a notable difference when Adam starts to play stronger and louder. It was sort of like the song was resuscitated. New life was breathed into it. It was quite moving for me as a parent to watch them sort of struggle and then rise to the top triumphant! Good stuff. 

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