The Story--

            About one year ago (April 20, 2007, to be exact) my wife, Ann suffered a severe stroke and was paralyzed on her left side.  Miraculously, she has recovered and can now use both hands and feet and can drive and do the normal things.  I am convinced, however, that none of this would have been possible had it not been for a wonderful physical therapist at Seton Hospital who saw Ann a few days after her stroke, came in, and told her that he was going to pull her up from her hospital bed and see if she could stand. After an intense struggle, Ann was sitting on her bed, then the nurse grabbed her hands and he said, "Let's stand up".  He pulled her up and then after a moment, released his hands and said, "Look, you can stand!  You have balance".  Those wonderful words gave Ann tremendous encouragement and the will to do all of the hard rehabilitation in the coming weeks which has led to her remarkable recovery.

            This small discussion above is a prelude to what happened at "Health South", the Austin rehabilitation center where Ann stayed for a number of weeks following her stay at Seton Hospital.  One day, we had a nice conversation with  Melissa Bishop, the night RN on duty at Health South. We discussed among other things, science.  The next day on Ann's bulletin board was a written question to me from Nurse Bishop.

   "If we know the speed of light, what is the speed of dark?" 

       In our discussions, I had told her about our electron microscope and that we could see carbon atoms in graphite and that I would be happy to take her over to UT one morning at the end of her night shift. 

That question from Melissa Bishop is the singular idea for the titles to my two new CDs to be published in July, 2008.  

I am truly proud of the breath and depth of this music , and I hope that you will find these CDs inspirational and  enjoyable.  Soon I will have some pre-publication mp3s online. Your comments always will be welcome.

By the way, after Melissa Bishop visited my lab and the electron microscope, here is what she wrote :

" M Bishop, R.N.

  May 3, 2007

  Professor and Mrs. Brown,

I have not been able to speak to you in person because of our schedules. But I wanted to say what I saw through the electron microscope has changed my way of seeing. After seeing with my own eyes the divine order of the micro world, I see the divine order of the world as a whole. It has changed my life.

Let me tell you, I came home to my woods in a bliss state. Out of the barn pranced my tall palomino mare, white tail plumming out behind. She blew her snorting breaths, this fanned her fire of life.  And I saw this great engine of beauty.  And I saw also every atom with my mind's eye, all shimmering and perfect in their place.

I went to the henhouse. There on the ground was a lovely copperhead newly shed. All its colors so fine and so alert and alive. And again, the perfection within and without! I was astonished.

Then I saw a gayly stripped little hunting hawk fly out of the woods and stoop on something. The bands of dark color across his wings and tail as he fanned them---were just like the banded pastures of the graphite atoms! how we can see this loviliness repeated as it is on the inside and again on the outside!

Above all this, a summer tanger was singing. wonderous atoms organized into a living being! Not only that---it sings! And its atoms must shimmer. And the green leaves all around, spreading their sun traps in their perfectness. I was in such a state. I have calmed down now. But at will I can change my way of seeing and I will never be the same.

I cannot thank you enough (but I know you both know what I mean).

Melissa

M. Bishop, R.N."

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