This is a Christmas card I received from Melinda the year we got married; Melinda and her mom, October 2005 I am humbled when I see my videos show up on other sites, especially a foreign website. "The Letter" made its way to this site. That video has now gotten thousands of hits on YouTube. "Are you looking down upon me, are you proud of who I am?" I know there is beauty in all this pain. There has to be. Heaven Only Knows Heaven Only Knows is the latest video tribute I put together. One of my many tributes to Melinda is entitled "The Letter." I heard this new song by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss and it just 'blew me away.' Comments like these are humbling; The Letter Billypinard: "One of the most heartfelt showings of love and  sadness I have ever seen and heard. I just became engaged and I will use this Vbeachy as a reminder and a blueprint for what I can only hope, dream and work real hard at to share with my future wife. God Bless, Thank you." samsever123 AWESOME!!! Fellow Male MS "patient", recently discovered your web site and your life. THANK YOU, "inspiration", "role model", etc. etc. THANK YOU DSLandis This song touches me deeply. Your posting makes it even more special. You are blessed marcelbonzo1971 I understand you lost your lady... My condolances to you, I love the song and I appreciate your video, sung by two beautiful human beings... Good luck with writing the most difficult letter to write... Sincerely, Bonzo1971 Here I Am Melancholy It Hurts Fare Thee Well Faith Hill provides the wonderful music for this Melinda Tribute photo movie. it is still tough for me to put these together, but I find the subject (Melinda) easy because of how much I loved her and how utterly void my world seems without her in it.   Going through a box I hadn't touched in over a year, I came across this gem (written by Melinda while she was lying on a beach in Aruba). Click on the picture for a larger version) Melinda raking leaves at our house on Wellsville Road

No amount of therapy in the world can prepare one for this;

The SOS Bill of Rights

Melinda's smile hypnotized me

Melinda Ann Beachy October 8th, 1961 - June 2nd, 2006

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I put together another photo movie dedicated to Melinda's memory. This one is called Melinda's Iris. Click on the picture to view it on my YouTube page.

This next one I called "Rockabye Melinda"

The following three photo stories are the same sequence of pictures, but set to different music. Different emotions.

I haven't done this in some time...make a PhotoStory. I am always inspired to put these together, and it helps me get through some tough times.

Frank Sinatra lends his voice to this piece I call "Autumn."

You can view my Photostory called "Autumn" here.

I got this poem from my support group. I wish...

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Always Remembered

I got an ornament with a poem from my sister-in-law, Donetta. It hits home.

James 1:12 (New International Version)

Our house was, indeed, a Home.

I have the saying on this site: "Nobody gets MS until they get MS." Well, Melinda "got" MS. She knew what I needed before I knew that I needed it. Period.

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Melinda and I really liked the Tigerlily CD, and I especially liked this song. Click on the title to listen and know why I always thought of Melinda when it played.

NATALIE MERCHANT LYRICS

"Beloved Wife"

You were the love
For certain of my life
You were simply my beloved wife
I don't know for certain
How I'll live my life
Now alone without my beloved wife
My beloved wife
...

Here is the story behind the music of Sarah McLaughlin: Melinda and I went our separate ways in 1990, but reconnected in 1995 when I moved to Little Rock. She invited me to the Sarah concert at Mud Island in Memphis on a rather hot and muggy day in July.

That day at work saw me reporting from the scene of a homicide. I was sweating heavily in the 100+ degree heat and the subject was, of course, less-than-pleasant. In driving to Memphis a front came through and a nice wind blew and the temp was 75 for the outdoor concert. The day started out poorly, but ended on a very high note.

Great music, great weather and sitting next to my soul mate is a memory ingrained in my mind. That's the moment I knew we would be back together.

Maybe tomorrow I'll find my way home...

I put together several memorials to Melinda. I hope the Photo Stories will, at least, begin to convey how much in Love we were and always will be. In my mind, she is immortal. It runs just over 5 minutes.

"Scrawl dissolved, cigar box on the floor."

I put this memorial together on Monday night 6/5/06 when I couldn't sleep. I hope this, in some small way, begins to convey how much I love Melinda.

(The background music is one of the most sacred of hymns, performed by Ani Difranco)

I put this together in 2003 and I wanted to put it on this site.

08/11/2008