February 11, 2007 at 4:28 pm (Daddy-Daughter Dates, Forgive Your Father, Lullaby Your Father)
As a child growing up, I always wanted to be close to my dad. His mother died the day he was born on May 10, 1930, shortly after his birth. Beatrice Myrtle Jordan was never given the opportunity to cradle, kiss or lullaby her son before she passed on. She was a 25 year old schoolteacher the day she died. My father was her first and only child.
Although I never met her, I heard stories from my Grandpa Rowley, that before she died, Beatrice would sit at the piano for hours and sing the songs of her heart–”What A Friend We Have in Jesus” and “Amazing Grace” to name a few to my unborn father, who nestled warm within her womb. Did she know that this would be her only opportunity to lullaby her son?
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February 10, 2007 at 9:27 pm (Athletes and Affection, Beyond Basketball, Husband-Wife Time, Lullaby Your Father, Lullaby Your Husband, Ordinary Men with Extraordinary Stories, The Big TLC, Thurl Time, Thursdays With Thurl, What Husbands Wish Their Wives Knew About Men, What Men Really Want)
Hi! My name is Karyn Grant, LMT and I am a joy coach for men, women and children. I am also a singer, songwriter, aromatherapist and use music as therapy in my joy coaching sessions. As I have spent a great deal of focus on bringing solacing and nurturing to women, over the past seven years, I have realized that men rarely get the kind of nurturing and attention that they really need.
Thus, I approached Thurl Bailey, former JAZZ player, a professional athlete, but as well, a gifted musician. Wow! What a deep voice! Adding his voice to my massage sessions, which includes speakers attached to the bottom of the massage table, brings a whole new vibration to my work as a Vibrational Attunement Massage Therapist! Anyway, after I met Thurl, while he was singing to a group of women, at my home, in what I call “The Cherishing Circle”, I approached him about the needs that men have to be nurturered and comforted all the way back into their childhoods.
Every man was “once upon a time”, a little boy. Little boys are not always encouraged to share their feelings and emotions…so that’s how it all started…the next thing you know, Thurl asked me to write his new book, “The Heart and Soul of Thurl Bailey: Who Will Lullaby the Fathers?” Right now…I’m on page 87…and ladies, it’s what every woman wants! Some great big 6′11″ hero to step in “off the court” and assist your man in knowing how to “court” you!
Thurl is a gentle man from basketball and “Beyond Basketball”, where he is inspiring parents and children to use b-ball as the tool in which to develop family ties and strong characters. Beyond that? I am excited to share the journey I am on with the rest of the world in getting to know the heart and soul of a kind and loving, father and husband! His stories are sure to lullaby the fathers, husbands, wives and mothers! Stay tuned—it’s Thurl-Time!
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