Singer Ashley McBryde on her first time hosting the CMT Music Awards ...& I Got to Sing with Her At The Local in Nashville!

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A short while I got to share the stage with the authentic Amazing Ashley Mcbryde at one of her shows in Nashville at a place called The Local.

That night got me thinking I want to share a thought that was inspirational . Read to the end to learn more about that night Ashley Mcbryde.

This is what my great Grandma who we called Ma ma survived and while she was it she had my grandma Lajoice.

All while being Cherokee Indian and African American living thru segregation etc!

Believe & trust! Keep your faith and hope alive.

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For a small amount of perspective during these crazy times, imagine you were an American born in 1900. When you are 14, World War I starts, and ends on your 18th birthday with 22 million people killed. Later in the year, a Spanish Flu epidemic hits the planet and runs until you are 20. Fifty million people die from it in those two years. Yes, 50 million.

When you're 29, the Great Depression begins. Unemployment hits 25%, global GDP drops 27%. That runs until you are 33. And there was no welfare, food stamps or bailout money. You were mostly on your own. The country nearly collapses along with the world economy. When you turn 39, World War II starts. You aren’t even over the hill yet.

When you're 41, the United States is fully pulled into WWII. Between your 39th and 45th birthday, 75 million people perish in the war and the Holocaust kills six million. At 52, the Korean War starts and five million perish.

At 64 the Vietnam War begins, and it doesn’t end for many years. Four million people die in that conflict. Approaching your 62nd birthday you have the Cuban Missile Crisis, a tipping point in the Cold War. Life on our planet, as we know it, could well have ended. Great leaders prevented that from happening.

As you turn 75, the Vietnam War finally ends. Think of everyone on the planet born in 1900. How do you survive all of that? A kid in 1985 didn’t think their 85 year old grandparent understood how hard school was. Yet those grandparents (and now great grandparents) survived through everything listed above.

Perspective is an amazing art. Let’s try and keep things in perspective. Let’s be smart, help each other out, and we will get through all of this. In the history of the world, there has never been a storm that lasted. This too, shall pass.

Ashley Mcbryde & Craig Wayne Boyd of Texas Hill who were in the audience loved my original song and jumped on stage to sing it with me at The Local in Nashville.

It was so amazing I got sit at The Local in Nashville as we had time of reflection and silence for racial healing and sang inspirational songs and a few covers songs in a bar with my new friend Ashley Mcbryde.

Thank you so much for asking me to sing with you around the edge of the stage that night after your show at The Local in Nashville. Thank you to Terri Jo & Blue Foley for helping me get on stage and sing a few originals!

We sang till 3 am in the morning. This is how you get thru! You sing inspirational after hours a in bar!

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