The song made it to the runway. · Crust & Crumb Academy

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The song made it to the runway.

Thank you for indulging me. A few weeks ago, a man I have never met in person sent my son a song. His name is Nick. He runs a Skool community of his own called AI Storytellers, and he had been listening to me talk about Ryan, my javelin-throwing son, in the kind of way only proud dads do.

Then

@Nick Nebelsky

did something most people would not have thought to do. He sat down and wrote five songs for Ryan. The one that landed was called Running in Light.

When Ryan heard it, he did not say much. He just nodded the way he does when something moves him.

A few days later, Ryan competed at the Duke Twilight, his final meet before NCAA Division II Nationals. He was throwing against professional athletes. He put on his headphones, listened to Nick’s song, and walked to the runway.

He finished first among the collegiate athletes in the field.

Nick wrote about it in his own community yesterday. He said that in the right hands, AI can take a father someone has never met and a son someone has never met and produce a gospel song that makes a family weep on a Sunday morning before the biggest meet of the year.

He is right. That is not a parlor trick. That is craft, taste, and care, applied to a tool most people are still using to generate noise.

I am sharing this with the Academy because Nick asked me to, but also because it belongs here. This community is built on the idea that real people, working with care, can make something good. Nick is one of those people. So are you.

Thank you, Nick. You gave my son something to carry into the circle. That is a gift I will pass forward.

The song: https://youtu.be/uirKj0Jqdm8

Faith. Focus. Finish.

~Henry ⭐️🔥

Below is the song and my thank you poster.

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