It has been a long weekend, and I’m finally sitting down to write a little. I don’t have the energy to do this justice, but here goes.

Forty years ago tomorrow, the song ‘Take Me Home, Country Roads’ was released. I thought of it a little bit as I drove through West Virginia on Saturday and Sunday. I looked at the Blue Ridge mountains in the distance and references to the Shenandoah river along the way.

Further south in Virginia than I this last road trip took me is the Blue Ridge Medical Center in Arrington, VA. On Thursday, they are having a Campaign for a Healthy Community Kick Off. There will be music there with Liza Bance, a local singer/song writer who composed a beautiful folk/bluegrass song inspired by the services of BRMC and RHOP. (You can download the song off of CDBaby.