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Forty Years Have Passed

9/4/2014

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The author on the left, Richard Wayne Mullins on the right.  Both photos were taken in 1974
Just this weekend, I came across some scraps of the dress I was wearing when Richard and I first laid eyes on each other in August of 1974.  I recalled the first words out of his mouth, "I like your dress."  It was the beginning of a friendship that taught me so much more about God than I'd dreamed of learning.  I don't have many souvenirs of that time of my life, and if you've ever read Singing from Silence you know why.  But I count this song among my memories of our early friendship:
I would like to acknowledge Beth Snell Lutz for her faithful preservation of Richard's early music, and for being there for him so many times when I was not.  Thank you, Beth!

This is the third in a series of posts about the upcoming book, Let the Mountains Sing.  For Part Four, click here.
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Jean Ann
12/21/2014 04:30:53 am

Pam I went to high school with Richard, I was also in the New Creations the same time he was. I considered myself his friend, I had the fun and honor to sing one of his songs in the choir. I have a notebook of poems, thoughts, words that he gave to me while we were friends. I was over whelmed when I read your book. Some with my own memories of him and then the thought of the lost of a love you have. I saw the movie that was made and I am sorry to say I did not care for it. I do not think the Richard I knew would want to have it made.

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Pam Richards link
12/21/2014 07:32:29 am

Thank you for your thoughtful remarks, Jean Ann. I'm glad to hear that the book resonated with your own fond memories of Richard. Unfortunately, it is one of the drawbacks of supposedly biographic films that real-life events are altered in significant ways. The effect seems to be to distance the audience from the subject of the film, not to draw us nearer. For me, I loved Richard as he was, and I believe even with his faults and flaws, his audience can be kind enough love him as God does. I don't feel his image requires so much doctoring.

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