Otis and I preparing for the moment of a life time at Washingtons home Mount Vernon..
Christmas morning as we have for over a decade,we arrived at the National Cathedral in Washington D.C. it was so great to see Bishop John Chane he is truly family to us and Katherine & Russell Klingenmeier are always there with a smile on Christmas morning… We presented the miniature Resurrected Christ made from the reconstituted remains of Ground Zero to Bishop Chane and the National Cathedral of Peter and Paul normally the highlight of a lifetime but this Christmas Day it was only beginning…
We arrived to a homecoming at Mount Vernon, George Washington’s home and in a way ours… John Marshal and the staff had a Christmas feast for these three wary travelers as they made sure we knew we were home for the holidays… we enjoyed the company of friends and early in the afternoon Otis and I took to the stage in the theater at Mount Vernon to perform a sneak peak of The Washington Symphony this moment was the end of a ten year journey in my life… I could scarcely believe we were here at Washington’s home bringing the commission of a life time to reality…
This was the Moment…
I held a vision and Idea for a decade,and I decide recently to scale down the production so that it could be preformed proffessionally by school and chuch groups across the country and bring otis on board as a protige; his talent is original and his ideas with fine tuning bring a fresh youthful flow to my vision. This christmas day we presented a sneak peak and were warmly received …James Resee once again found a way to make my vision and now our dream a reality…and Sue Keeler was there as she has always been with strenght and encouragement enough to make me believe in myself…
A once in a life time moment I’ll never forget as Otis sang and Brian took pictures I felt as though George and Martha were watching over us…
a Christmas to remember…
