[Harp-L] Thank you

[SONNYTONE@xxxxxxx]

Another year goes by, and I would like to thank everyone around the world  
for their interest, support, and general kind humanity during this past year.  
Next year will be another test of walking the fires of surgeries and 
recoveries,  but with all the prayers from everyone and continued personal faith I know 
that  whatever will happen was meant to be. To be able to leave a legacy after 
you  leave this physical body behind is something I feel blessed to be able 
to have  accomplished, and will continue throughout to try and bring joy to 
those I can.  Everything is in place to continue as I have many friends in my 
corner that have  made that possible. Scott Berberian of Meteor amps, Keith Robb 
who also builds  the chassis, Gregg Hopkins who builds my cabs, and Tom 
Stankiewicz of Cotton  Amps is going to help final assembly so we can continue 
without missing a beat.  My true ace is my partner Kay King, who spent these years 
alongside me and  lacquered as many cabs as I did, helped put the full manual 
together, and will  be fielding emails while I am out of commission for the 
short periods of time  through surgery. As many know, my main job has been 
working for Yale School of  Medicine conducting research with heroin and cocaine 
addicts. It looks as though  I probably will lose that job of 8 years due to 
being out for such a long time.  However, through the 15 years of working in the 
field of addiction, I have  worked with at least 50,000 addicts, and the main 
underlying factor of all of  them is they started with some form of drug or 
alcohol in their early teens or  sooner. Even though I have spoken several times 
at high schools about my past  and gave drug education, I am being guided 
towards creating a new program of  teaching what I will call Conscious Living, 
where it will be geared towards  getting young people in touch with feelings 
they usually run from or numb  through drugs or other forms. Imagine a course 
where the curriculum is  Anger, Forgiveness, Pain, Love, Caring, Suffering, 
Nutrition, Exercise, Yoga,  Meditation, Job Interviewing skills, Negative/Positive 
thinking. This  would be able to build a better core of an individual, so that 
when the  choice of drugs or alcohol are put in front of them, or other 
decisions to make  in life, they will have the tools to understand what is the 
right decision. To  me just teaching about drugs is like a band aid, you have to 
work from the  inside out. How to put it together and sell it to a school is 
what I think will  unfold over the next few years, along with music. This is 
where I feel I am  being guided, to be able to touch more people than just making 
amps. I do hope  to put the passion of my music on a CD and continue with 
what I am doing.So  whether I can walk or not, my liver starts to fail, is all 
ok, knowing one's  true purpose in life and following it against all odds cannot 
have a price tag  put on it. So follow your hearts, play with passion, and 
peace to all. 
Sonny Jr.