Author: Dan Shusta
Date: 2022-09-22 09:55
September 19, 2022
by Kenneth Peplowski, Beneficiary
"Hi, everyone - just want to give you a quick update....I played a couple of gigs this past weekend - one in Morristown, NJ with Frank Vignola and a recording session for a project by Michael Mossman....meanwhile, I'm eagerly awaiting the beginning of my four month cycle of treatment which I start next week. I am planning on making every gig that I have left in the books, as I'm gradually getting back my strength and stamina. I know there will be some setbacks, but hopefully all that is in the distant future. I thank you all again for literally keeping me going. Your support, kind words and friendship are invaluable and I remain overwhelmingly grateful and appreciative." Ken Peplowski
Yesterday, September 20, 2022
by Kenneth Peplowski, Beneficiary
"All I've known how to do since I was a child involved learning how to express my internal self through something, anything - for me it was music, books, writing, drawing and performing. That helped get me out of a childhood largely crippled by fear, sadness and sometimes violence. Never an easy life, but the rewards were great - meet all kinds of interesting people, see lots of the world, new experiences just around the corner, etc. Now that I face a bout of health issues I'm realizing how precious all of those moments were and are, and I'm also learning how to cope with less music, less traveling and a lot less income!!!!!!! What have I learned? If you want to live, you have to find even one thing to cling to, one thing that makes life worth living. Well, I have many things - I have the unbelievable and unconditional love of my dog Corky, who probably had a rough start, too, but is the sweetest, most loving dog I've ever encountered; I have a great girlfriend who has been nothing but supportive through everything; and I have what I like to refer to as the "jazz family" - that would be all my fellow musicians and fans, some of you close friends, but all of you lending a hand or two (four?) when the chips are down. I thank you all and I am truly grateful to you all for everything." Ken
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