Healing...

It's been a whole year since I have been diagnosed. This post should have actually come before the last one I wrote..but it is what it is.

Unbelievable.

I do keep myself open to the signs of the Universe, so when I found out that Todd Rundgren (one of my favorite musical artists ever) was doing the album "Healing" (one of my favorite albums of all time)in it's entirety on the VERY anniversary of my diagnosis I knew that I was meant to be there.

Now I was still on chemo mind you , so getting there wasn't easy.
But I did it. And that was EXACTLY where I was supposed to be in that moment of time.

The message of "Healing" album is just that. You can heal yourself, others, the world. It takes time and it takes compassion, but it can be done.

The concert itself was healing...it's been a while since I've been out to see a really good concert, and since Cincinnati has a preponderance of shoe gazin', stare at the floor, don't move, hipsters in the music scene, (hello boring!!!)it was rare to get a full on entertainment experience of this scale. You know, people who look like they actually enjoy playing music and appreciate that the crowd is there? besides Todd is one of the most sincere musicians I have ever seen. It just radiates from him.

The closest thing I can compare a Todd Concert to is a revival meeting...there was not a person in their seat, there was dancing, singing, clapping and pure joy the entire time, so much so that after the curtain came down the entire audience...all 1000 of them kept singing together, in harmony for a good 10 minutes after Todd left the stage. I've never seen anything like it and I have been to thousands of concerts over the years.

Pretty amazing. I also got to meet Todd's wife and son and hangout with them for a few hours after the concert, Kasim Sultan, Todd's awesome bass player (who let me hold his bass as a counterpoint to the "how heavy is your bass?" discussion we were having) was charming and not too mention Cincinati friends who were there along with Todd devotees from all over the world. And I made some new friends.

It was an incredible night.

And the universe was providing exactly what I needed to be reminded of at that exact moment in time.

"You can be a healer...".
Sing it Todd, I'm listening and I won't forget ever again.