Photoessay #1096 - One More Day

Yesterday I wrote about David Bailey and I just could not let that moment pass. I believe that he started as a musician and then became a poet. It seemed to me that along his brain tumor journey he kind of lost his sense of melody and his songs became more presentations of his poetry. So maybe I enjoyed his earlier songs a bit more.

He always considered himself a spiritual performer first and felt that his performances and songs to be sort of a ministry. He performed a lot for brain tumor organizations, hospitals, foundations. Also for churches and coffee houses.

He often wrote about conversations with God. Even one song (can't find it right now) considered "What if I had another week? What if I had another day? What if I had another minute" and wrote about things worthwhile to do with our short time this time around. I thought today what if he knew "What if I had 13 years?". Which is a tremendous survival time for a GBM patient. I think he would have been well satisfied that he had sang for sadness and joy all over. He made 23 CDs, that's impressive! I own quite a few of them.

I searched around on youtube for an example of his music to include. He always connected well with audiences, felt inspiration. But he did a series of youtube videos where he sang some of his songs from his study. He reports that he wrote this song "One more Day", really one of his anthems at his first brain tumor conference. He joked that as a young person that he never would have believed he would write a signature song at a brain tumor conference (why would you want to even get near such a thing...but I had a pretty darn good time when I went) Though he's alone, I can feel the connection, I'm in the audience even though there isn't one.

One More Day, yup

PS Ilana remembers him coming to breakfast at our house, I need to find those pictures.