Publisher's Synopsis
An early 1960s airliner disaster leaves its sole survivor severely broken, but without injury. The ensuing half-century of recovery from horror and pain of responsibility, teaches Henry Banister that most of the devastating psychological trauma and deep emotional pain, were not actually injuries after-all. The gift of music and rhythm are only part of what heals Hank's long lasting wounds and of what reveals a new pathway into a rich future of new opportunity for all. Great sacrifices yield grand possibilities for mankind, as hope itself has a chance to re-seed. Tragedy can be the gift of life when living comes with the amazing power that is the purest, sweetest, and most enabling of moralities that exists. Genuine morality comes in a simple and ancient statement that translates into four English language words that have long gone without our full understanding of their most crucial meaning. A teacher of healing rises right out of the aviation gasoline soot and flame, to travel time itself, and to pour forth hope and potential for astonishing joy and real peace. Yet, he must spend most of his life learning that the incredible burden that he carries, may well be the very best gift of all. It's actually a gift that lives within almost us all. Fifty years of learning could greatly change a world: Our world. Hank would ask you right now, "Why not?" and, "If not now, then when?"
