Someone emailed me to ask if I was going to blog about Michael Jackson.  My thoughts about Michael and his life range from sad to appreciative.  I am in awe of and appreciative of the immense talent he had.  I have to admit I have been following many of the news stories because I am about the same age as The King of Pop….the sad part for me is that in death he is being embraced, yet died thinking he was unloved by so many.  As we know, in life, there were many who considered him more than eccentric, downright freakish, odd, etc.  I know there were also many who never gave up or believed all the accusations of child molestation, etc. directed at Michael.  My favorite time to reflect on Michael and his music were when I was a kid and the Jackson 5 was doing their thing.   I loved the energy and he never lost it. He seemed to be in that rare category of musical icon/geniuses that the world rarely glimpses.  My condolences to the family, his children whom I feel especially sad for…no amount of money can make up for the loss of their father.  The other thing that is interesting to me and obviously sad is the immense amount of pain he must have been in during the last days? weeks? months? years? of his life?  How could this happen to someone so business savvy and musically talented?  I cannot imagine what his days were like but maybe we can now understand why he created Neverland as a place to be himself, a place to be accepted when so many clearly did not accept him.  We will never stop appreciating what Michael did for the world.

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