2020 - Christmas Music of the Day #21 - Missing Me, The Piano Guys and Craig Aven
I happened upon this beautiful song by accident.
It's so difficult to lose someone close to the holidays, for you can't help but notice the empty chair. To me, the year of "firsts" is the hardest - the first birthday without them, the first Mother's Day and Father's Day, the holidays, etc. To me it's when the grieving is the hardest and noticing their absence is the most evidence.
It gets easier, but not much. We don't get over it. We just simply get through it.
You may have noticed that I post many songs and videos from The Piano Guys. Jon Schmidt (piano) and Steven Sharp Nelson (cello - both traditional and electric) are some of the finest musicians around.
In 2016, Jon's daughter Annie went missing while hiking in Oregon. Here is a clip from Billboard: "Her death was ruled accidental. Nearly a month after The Piano Guys co-founder Jon Schmidt's daughter 21-year-old Annie Schmidt went missing in Oregon, it has been confirmed she died while hiking. The younger Schmidt's body was found at the bottom of a cliff below Munra Point in the Columbia River Gorge."
I followed this story closely as the search went on to find her. Annie is the granddaughter of one of our genealogy colleagues.
At the beginning of the clip, Jon tells how he found this song and the person who sang it when he first heard it.
So, if you are experiencing grief during this time of year, and so, so many of us are, then this song is for you.
And, for me.
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