Countdown to Ch-RYE-stmas • Day 2 🎄✨ Not your traditional Christmas carol, but one that carries the kind of magic only music can—bridging this world and the next 🕊️ This year, I lost my grandmother—a proud woman, a stubborn woman, a woman with stories for days and unwavering belief in me 🤍 As I planned my songs for this season, I heard her nudge me toward this one. It felt like her Christmas gift to me, as much as mine to her. Our first Christmas apart—her no longer earth-side, but somewhere over the rainbow 🌈 ☀️ From 4 years old, performing in sun hats on your staircase, where my love for the stage was born
✨ To 8 years old, waking up early to print lyrics so I could serenade you before the school bus came
🎙️ To 16 years old, strumming my guitar and singing for you at your community picnics
🤍 To holding back tears as I sang you farewell on a soft summer day ✨ You taught me to dream big, to follow my yellow brick road no matter how winding, and to believe that there’s always ...