我想Josiah现在该是非常的伤心。 sharon在15日进入ICU病房,16日去世。 她真的是个非常乐观非常积极的人,心胸宽广,富有激情,一个伟大的母亲。我很喜欢她,也很尊敬她。她走了,我也觉得很难过。 华纳唱片的 Perry Watts-Russell 给sharon写了留言: I have only had the privilege of knowing Sharon and her family for a little over a year. I came to know her because I work at Warner Bros Records in Los Angeles and I had been introduced to her son Josiah, who I recognized to be a remarkable, unique and passionate artistic talent. (With no disrespect to Josiah, I soon came to understand that his gift was directly attributable to this incredible woman who I found to be the most inspirational person I had ever met - with the possible exception of my own mother. I'd call it a tie!) The first time I ever spoke to Sharon was on the phone from the office of the head of Business Affairs at Warner Bros when we called to tell her that we were signing her son to a major label record deal. When she picked up the phone and I told her who was calling, she replied "Why, hello, Warner Bros!" The first time I met Sharon was a few days later when I flew with Josiah from LA to Eastern Tennessee so that he could sign his contract in the home of his mother, father and family, so that she could experience firsthand the beginning of an extraordinary journey that would make her immeasurably proud. I got to know her (and the saintly salt-of-the-earth Donald) over the next few months via phone conversations, via email, her blog, her visits to Los Angeles for cancer treatments and perhaps most especially via my return to Morristown when I was able to conduct some video interviews with her, Don and Josiah that taught me that this was a woman from whom the world had so much to learn and receive. No-one who ever came into contact with her in person or via her blog will ever forget her.
It is my privilege and duty now to help her son Josiah's music be heard around the world, to enable the gift that she passed on to him be shared with all who would be touched by the power of word and music to inspire, to move, to elevate, to heal, to connect. His story will be told and so will Sharon's. Their fantastic journey has only just begun.
And I would end with these words written by Joshua Loth Liebman in 1947 in his book 'Peace of Mind'; "Nature herself gives us courage. Death is not to be feared, it is a friend. Depart then without fear out of this world even as you came into it. Yield your torch to others as in a race. It is the knowledge that our years are limited which makes them so precious. The day that we are privileged to spend in the great park of life is not the same for all human beings, but there is enough beauty and joy and gaiety in the hours if we will but treasure them. Then for each of us comes the great nurse, death, takes man or woman, the child, by the hand and quietly says, 'It is time to go home. Night is coming. It is your bedtime, child of earth'".
我希望,josiah会好好的;我希望,sharon没来得及看到的,会发生。 请把最好的给他吧…… |