10/16/2025
♥️🌞MELODIES OVER MALADY🌞♥️
This is Song #1 in 90 melodies in 90 days to ward off the malady of these times we are living through. I’m just going to write from the inspiration of the day- without any kind of an agenda- political or otherwise.
This song came to me when I was writing a thank you note to my good friend, Jill Handley, the other day. The thank you note was for all of her many kindnesses and for her recent contribution to my swimming 5 miles in August to raise money for the American Cancer Society.
Jill has years of recovery from addiction, has received a double lung transplant in the last year or so, has a way with words in conversations and meetings that both inspire and make me laugh and she has an attentive listening heart. Jill has moved into an assisted living because of her health needs in the last year or so and is a “Bingo Missionary!” at her new place of residence by the river. She calls bingo, referees bingo, and provides bingo prizes- often five days a week and twice on weekends. Most of her bingo compadres are 20 years her senior. She has three beautiful young adult children. She has the best laugh, sense of humor and she has feistiness in spades.
Recording this song with Don, of course, brings out the fact that he is my whole damn sun in a whole ‘nother way! Who is your whole damn 🌞 !!? Who are you the whole damn 🌞 to?!! I’m grateful for all the 🌞 in the world despite dark times.
✨✨✨✨✨✨♥️🙏♥️✨✨✨✨✨✨
