In an unexpected collision of various interests of mine, a political celebrity came across and shared the music video of a family friend.
Northwest New Jersey school teacher and mother of two Lee-Ellen Pisauro has spent a few years now sharing her experiences and emotions — particularly related to her youngest son, who has Down’s Syndrome — through music. Picking up a few gigs in local bars, then national awareness walks, working with friends to produce a CD and, most recently, sharing a music video for a particularly personal song.
We’re not sure how just yet, but somehow that video came within ear shot of former Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin, who shared it with her followers on Facebook and Twitter.
Then Politico went and picked that up.
From when I was the 17th view on the video last week, Pisauro’s video has now surpassed 60,000 views — and climbing. As of Friday, when the attention came, Lee-Ellen said she had received almost 2,000 messages and thousands more comments.
See the wholesome, heartfelt video for the song about her son Sam below.
