October 5, 2019: Light Years

Hi Brad and Brad,

Last year's episode (Episode 72) dropped on Christmas Eve told Bill Castrovince's story. It was a story that hit home to me, because my mother had been diagnosed with a similar type of cancer to Bill's. During Bill's story, he mentioned a 50:50 chance of a prognosis that would potentially limit his life to about a year from diagnosis. I'm grateful that Bill received a prognosis that he would get to live a long and happy life. It was a success story that I was excited to hear about at that time. My mother did not receive the same prognosis. Unfortunately, she came up on the other side of the coin. As of this morning, her bout with cancer ended just one day short of her 64th birthday. My love for music is largely inspired by her and I feel that motivation has helped me connect with so many incredible people through music, including both of you.

The constant theme I have enjoyed since listening to Single Podcast Theory, has been rethinking how I listen to and interpret the lyrics to several of their songs. One of those is "Light Years." I loved that song when I first heard it on Binaural, and would skip to it immediately at times. My favorite lyric in the song describes my mother so well.

Your light's reflected now, reflected from afar
We were but stones, your light made us stars

She impacted several people and was the strongest person I've ever known. I can only hope that her life is reflected through me and I can have half of the impact on others, that she did.

Forced to endure, what I could not forgive,

Chris

Comments

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