As time has gone along, I have seen more clearly that I cannot be all things to all people. I guess we each have our unique calling and journey we undertake as the body needs many different individual members in order to survive. So it is with me. I am finding that the thing that resonates most deeply with me in terms of how I conceive, produce, think of and focus my music, is with it somehow connected with the world of autism, of which I am most closely linked via our daughter and all of the other autistic and other special needs kids we have come to know because of her. I have touched on this connection earlier:
Part of this is because of what I have come to realize is my larger purpose and mission, especially in regard to this site, my songs, my nursing home ministry, my life with a child living with autism, having endured many years of infertility and failed attempts at achieving pregnancy and as an adoptive parent:
I must heed Christ’s call as so eloquently echoed by the late, Great Pope John Paul II to proclaim the Gospel of Life.
This linking continues outward beyond strictly autism, but to anyone struggling with a developmental, medical or aging condition such as Down’s syndrome, mental retardation, cerebral palsy, dementia, alzheimers or whatever affliction aging might throw at someone.
Due to my progression through this thought process, you will notice that as of today, I have modified the tag line on my web site to now read, “Chris Hartzog dot Com – Music From and For Autism, Dementia and Alzheimer’s”
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