More notes from the field

                                                                                  
                                                                                   Paula,
 

I want to thank you for the beautiful performance you gave at the Lincoln Center in Fort Collins, Colorado a couple of weeks ago.  I was one of your spotlight operators, and it was the most moving performance I have ever had the pleasure to be a part of. Your profound honesty and the grace and depth of your expression that you gave to those young people was sublime, the like I have never seen before.  They were very fortunate to have had that experience, as was I.

I cannot thank you enough for having the courage and insight to be sharing so much of yourself with this world. I wish you the best in every moment. God bless you.

Love, Kristianne

You didn't meet me, but you met my son and boy was he impressed by you.  Bryan is my real son, but most of the kids on the Montreat trip from Arkansas I call mine.  I usually come on the trip and work with the Arkansas Presbytery kids a lot so I was really excited to hear about the trip.  The overall, hands down, winner of the stories they brought back to me was jamming with Paula!  Thanks for touching my son's life.  He has had some rough things happen to him, and last year was very close to falling through the cracks.  He now has a better vision, but at 18 he is still searching hard and the Montreat trip always touches their life so powerfully.  It is through interactions with awesome people like you that makes such an impact.  So I am writing to express my gratitude to you, and to tell you I hope to meet you some day, to hear your music and to listen to your stories.  Thank you so for touching my son's life.  I thank God for you.

Karen H.

p.s. Your CD is great. Bryan shared it with me