Cary Tolbert

Music, during my adolescent years, was the main coping skill used to help me escape the pain of childhood sexual abuse.  When I was 12, I bought my first guitar at a garage sale for $1.50.  It wasn’t very pretty, and it needed new strings, but I was determined to play so I did whatever …

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On my walk through the forest today I had come across a broken piece of glass when the memory of walking a similar forest with my Grandmother flooded my heart.  I remember she, my mother and I, would be enjoying the beauty of GOD’s creation when suddenly she would stop, stoop to the ground, start …

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