YOU CAN WATCH THE ENTIRE "YEAR END" CONCERT HERE TODAY! (Further down the page.)
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Crazy wonderful time of year. But it's filled with emotion and feeling -- most happy, some melancholy. Some longing, some hopeful... some sad. But there's always a lot of feeling and emotion in the air. A couple of days ago I offered you guys a little story for the holiday.
But today...it's Christmas Eve. So today, I offer a letter to Santa Claus. It's just one way for Santa to make another dream come true.
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Click on the image for the letter to Santa.
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Hey, here's a thought.
Tomorrow is December 25th. It's the day we call Christmas. It might have special meaning for you. It might not. It does for me, but not for the same reasons that many other people love the day.
I just love the day because I always get to be with people I love.
Some people go sleepily through a day of repetitive tradition and parties... some just go for Chinese food and a movie every year. But for me, it's always about letting go of everything else and getting down to the most genuine kind of Love there is. Just being around people I care about. Or at times in my life, even just one special person...
I really enjoy December 25th because it's always been that way in my Life -- all about being surrounded by Love -- or making sure others felt that they were surrounded by Love. Or it's about wanting to be surrounded by Love, or trying to be surrounded by Love, or longing to be surrounded by Love. But no matter how I look at it... it was always about Love.
From the time I was a little kid and I first believed in Santa Claus I still do.) ...and some of the other fantastical stories I once believed that surrounded the day, the day that we mark every on the calendar meant something special. Yeah, it's been filled with tradition. It's been filled with the Spirit of giving. It's been filled with the excitement of receiving something new and fun. It's been filled with incredibly beautiful music. It's been filled with laughter, and wonder, and parties, and friends.
Y'know? I get a chance, manufactured or not, based in fantasy or not, to be forgiving on this day. I get a chance to remember what's really important in my Life. And as The Beatles once said in a song... "All you need is Love". Hopefully I can hold onto that for the entire day on December 26th as well. And then a little bit more for another day. If I keep that up for another 363 days... what a year I'm bound to have!!!
If you're reading this I wish the same for you. If you're not in place to feel that this year, I guess it's kinda like I wrote in my song...
"I hope we get it right... next time around".
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Here are a few fun images from past years here at thatguitarman.com
It's a Wonderful Life!!!!
Y'think?
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Okay... just a few more images for today...
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Here's another fun thing to do. (Especially if you're new around here.) Browse through "The Archive".
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TOMORROW!!!!!
As a little Christmas present, I'm hoping to release the first concert video from this year's "The Something'th Annual Year End Concert".
You can watch the entire concert here right now if you aren;t too crazy busy with holiday stuff! We had an amazing time the other night at "The Something'th Annual Year End Concert" for 2010. If you were there in the theater with us, or if you watched it LIVE that night on the internet that night, thanks for showing up! If you missed the gig all together, you can sit back and watch the entire show right here at the website. I'm gonna leave it up for the rest of the year at least! Go make a pot of coffee. Pour yourself some tea or a nice glass of wine and sit back and watch this thing. Plug in some headphones or some earbuds if you feel like it. You can actually jump around and watch different parts o the show.
We had such a great time again this year in that theater!
(The audio got a little funky during Teresa Reynolds' Christmas song... but I'm do everything I can to fix that sooner than later. Check back.)
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I'll be back tomorrow with another update.
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Here are a couple of different fun galleries to check out.
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HAVE FUN TODAY!!!!!!(And be cool to each other, okay?)
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Thanks for everything.
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Peace ☮
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As you may know I am producing a documentary about "That Guitar Man from Central Park". I would like to ask all David's fans out there to write me and tell me any stories you may have about David and his playing in Central Park and how it has affected you or what it has meant to you. I've already heard some great stories, but I know there are more that I haven't heard. So if you got a story to tell about David and his music, please briefly write it out and send it to stories@thatguitarman.com . I will be contacting people from the stories submitted to interview them for possible inclusion in the film. Thank you and I look forward to seeing everyone on the hill this summer. - Dean