I'll be there

Michael Jackson!~Paul Deo, artist-New Orleans
www.pauldeo.com

I wanted to wait a few days to see where I wanted to go with this but I was bushwhacked with what I see as unneccesary, tacky, calloused ,needless comments about the death of Michael Jackson. It appears to me in the mind & hearts of some there seems to be some level of perverse pleasure in dancing on a human being even before his once amazing life had completely drained away. I know we live in a different time today where shattered souls, fractured ones may think that somehow this behavior is alright.

Perhaps in that world it does, but...

Perhaps it wishful thinking but even those who want to make a mockery of a life snuffed should have somewhere in their hearts a small fragment,a microscopic shred of common decency for a family who have lost someone they loved. No matter where you are in your belief, good grief have respect and courtesy for his mama , his children and his siblings.

If you have never lost a child and it don't matter if the "child" is 50, please for a moment let them have a moment. How is it benefiting you or any one in the world for that matter for you to restrain yourselves. How is that fleeting moment or rush worth it to be so heartless& cruel. It wouldn't matter if if was Michael Jackson, performer or Mike Jackson, the garbage man, a mother has to bury her son. No one should have to endure that pain. I refuse to believe we have regress to a level of barbaric behavior that we are immune or without moral conscious thought for the suffering of another.

A quote I saw once at a funeral hall when I buried my grandmother stated "How you treat the dead is how you will treat the living".

Search, please, dig hard, borrow, buy or appropriate for a moment, a shred of humanity. I would pray that no one would dance on your grave or make a mockery of your life..then to, maybe they will considering the behavior of some in the world today.





When all the vultures, exploiters, critics have been satiated from picking the marrow clean and move onto a new prey, long after for a moment the shock subsides, recedes and return sometime/many times return in waves, long after people return to their lives, the music and the artistry will remain. A mother will still have lost a son, brothers and sisters will still have lost a brother.





And innocent children will have lost a father.

I know I probably have more to say later but I felt for a moment I needed to address this. As someone I know commonly says "vake what you want and leave the rest alone".

So touching was Sister Janet dignity despite her grief...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLxXqbjdrKI





It won't cost you much and might even save you...





Look.. I see a new heavens and a new earth.. where mouning nor outcry or pain will be no more...the former things will have passed away..."

Don't Stop.. Never Enough...We Get Him... Yeah!

I am planning on writing an essay but my brain is till processing. I know what direction I want togo but now I have to wait for the words to appear...

But right now I want something up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_hz2am90Hk&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hK3Y1Ehv9c&NR=1

Rare footage from back in the Day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPQmHwALAck
My fave J-5 video

J-5!
J-5!
J-5!

And from a far distance part vantage point I marvel over the dance ability/choreography...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7MmEMrCRfc&NR=1

and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WjOn5TNjBM&NR=1

MJ and Oprah
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpJ72hjmPDk&feature=fvw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCqQ2JcQWGs&NR=1

Mirror Mirror off the Wall

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxdqUMaymbA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcflAMl0XSw

"Man In The Mirror"

I'm Gonna Make A Change,

For Once In My Life

It's Gonna Feel Real Good,

Gonna Make A Difference

Gonna Make It Right . . .

As I, Turn Up The Collar On MyFavourite Winter Coat

This Wind Is Blowin' My Mind

I See The Kids In The Street,

With Not Enough To Eat

Who Am I, To Be Blind?

Pretending Not To See Their Needs

A Summer's Disregard,

A Broken Bottle Top

And A One Man's Soul

They Follow Each Other OnThe Wind

Ya' Know'Cause They Got NowhereTo Go

That's Why I Want You ToKnow

I'm Starting With The Man InThe Mirror

I'm Asking Him To ChangeHis Ways

And No Message Could HaveBeen Any Clearer

If You Wanna Make The World A Better Place

(If You Wanna Make TheWorld A Better Place)

Take A Look At Yourself,

And Then Make A Change

(Take A Look At Yourself, And Then Make A Change)

(Na Na Na, Na Na Na, Na Na,Na Nah)

I've Been A Victim Of A Selfish Kind Of Love

It's Time That I Realize

That There Are Some With No Home, Not A Nickel To Loan

Could It Be Really Me,Pretending That They're Not Alone?

A Willow Deeply Scarred,

Somebody's Broken Heart

And A Washed-Out Dream(Washed-Out Dream)

They Follow The Pattern OfThe Wind,

Ya' See

Cause They Got No PlaceTo Be

That's Why I'm Starting WithMe (Starting With Me!)

I'm Starting With The Man InThe Mirror(Ooh!)

I'm Asking Him To ChangeHis Ways(Ooh!)

And No Message Could HaveBeen Any Clearer

If You Wanna Make The WorldA Better Place

(If You Wanna Make TheWorld A Better Place)

Take A Look At Yourself

AndThen Make A Change(Take A Look At Yourself And Then Make A Change)

I'm Starting With The Man InThe Mirror(Ooh!)

I'm Asking Him To Change HisWays

(Change His Ways-Ooh!)

And No Message Could'veBeen Any Clearer

If You Wanna Make The WorldA Better Place

(If You Wanna Make TheWorld A Better Place)

Take A Look At Yourself AndThen Make That . . .

(Take A Look At Yourself AndThen Make That . . .) Change!

I'm Starting With The Man InThe Mirror,(Man In The Mirror-OhYeah!)

I'm Asking Him To ChangeHis Ways(Better Change!)

No Message Could HaveBeen Any Clearer (If You Wanna Make TheWorld A Better Place)

(Take A Look At Yourself AndThen Make The Change)

(You Gotta Get It Right, WhileYou Got The Time)

('Cause When You Close YourHeart)

You Can't Close Your . . .YourMind!

(Then You Close Your . . .Mind!)

That Man,

That Man,

ThatMan,

That Man

With That Man In The Mirror

(Man In The Mirror, Oh Yeah!)

That Man,

That Man,

That Man I'm Asking Him To ChangeHis Ways(Better Change!)

You Know . . .

That Man No Message Could HaveBeen Any Clearer

If You Wanna Make The WorldA Better Place

(If You Wanna Make TheWorld A Better Place)

Take A Look At Yourself

AndThen Make A Change

(Take A Look At Yourself And Then Make A Change)

Hoo! Hoo! Hoo! Hoo! Hoo!

Na Na Na, Na Na Na, Na Na,Na Nah

(Oh Yeah!)

Gonna Feel Real Good Now!

Yeah Yeah! Yeah Yeah!Yeah Yeah!

Na Na Na, Na Na Na, Na Na,Na Nah

(Ooooh . . .)

Oh No, No No . . .

I'm Gonna Make A Change

It's Gonna Feel Real Good!

Come On!(Change . . .)

Just Lift Yourself

You KnowYou've Got To Stop It.Yourself!

(Yeah!-Make That Change!)

I've Got To Make That Change,Today!

Hoo!(Man In The Mirror)

You Got ToYou Got To

Not Let Yourself . . .

Brother . . .Hoo!

(Yeah!-Make That Change!)

You Know-I've Got To GetThat Man, That Man . . .

(Man In The Mirror)

You've Got ToYou've Got To Move!

ComeOn! Come On!

You Got To . . .

Stand Up! Stand Up!Stand Up!

(Yeah-Make That Change)

Stand Up And LiftYourself, Now!

(Man In The Mirror)

Hoo! Hoo! Hoo!

Aaow!(Yeah-Make That Change)

Gonna Make That Change . . .Come On!

(Man In The Mirror)

You Know It!You Know It!You Know It!

You Know . . .

(Change . . .)

Make That Change.

Isaiah 65:17-23

I finally found this wonderful in MJ's on words to Ed Bradley "the most autobiographical song about who he is". For ones who pooh-pooh believe what you want. If you have any kind of a willing to listen heart, show some heart today to pay attention to any of the lost boys (or girls)out here who may not have a place (or MJ's gift) to say:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVJscGa5vbc

Childhood
Written and Composed by Michael Jackson.
by Michael Jackson 2007

1959-2009 Isaiah 65:17:23


Have you seen my Childhood?

I'm searching for the world that I come from

'Cause I've been looking around

In the lost and found of my heart...

No one understands me

They view it as such strange eccentricities...

'Cause I keep kidding around

Like a child, but pardon me...

People say I'm not okay

'Cause I love such elementary things...

It's been my fate to compensate, for the ChildhoodI've never known...

Have you seen my Childhood?

I'm searching for that wonder in my youth

Like pirates in adventurous dreams,

Of conquest and kings on the throne...

Before you judge me, try hard to love me,

Look within your heart then ask,

Have you seen my Childhood?

People say I'm strange that way

'Cause I love such elementary things,
It's been my fate to compensate,

for the Childhood (Childhood) I've never known...

Have you seen my Childhood?

I'm searching for that wonder in my youth

Like fantastical stories to share

But the dreams I would dare, watch me fly...

Before you judge me, try hard to love me.

The painful youth I've had

Have you seen my Childhood....

I cannot say anything more right now but my condolences to the families of

Ed Mahon, Farrah Fawcett and vhe King of Pop, Michael Jackson

My all time perennial favorite of Mr. Jackson:Earth Song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8muMo0fw_M

Wigs, Butterflies and other Crazy things that can Happen on a Sun Sun Monday (for a Free Woman)

Wigs, Butterflies and other Crazy things that can Happen on a Sun Sun Monday (for a Free Woman)

By JHM©09


Can I Parler sans fards? ( to speak openly)?

I have to be frank and said everything started on Sunday and heated up on Monday for me. Some have known that I had been talking for awhile about returning home to New Orelans this year but timing had not been right. A place I had been looking at rather casually and had actually veto ended up being revisited this week with renewed interest. After trying to find it on Google Earth unsuccessfuly, I enlisted the aid of someone else and thankfully they found it!

Upon my searching out the neighborhood an adjacent street caught my attention. It sounded vaguely familiar but I did not know from where. And then it struck me, my parents, when I was a wee, newly born itty bitty one, lived on this adjacent street! So I went on a search after confirming it on my birth certificate & found the place which literally was 3 blocks over from the house I am getting.

My 1st thoughts were “hmm so I am really returning to my roots”. My 94 year old mother confirmed the house which was boarded up after Katrina. While doing this something clicked in my head from a article I read upon arising today on the Power & the Vision” of how some people, many times spend their whole lives:

“it's interesting that most work makes us look downward, while dreams lift our eyes to the sky. While you're keeping that nose to the grindstone, make sure you keep your head up to see where you're going”.

I've always known I was going somewhere even if the “where” may not always be clear & apparent to me and even less to others. As the artist, Karen Bethea , said to me today” I believe some people are being positioned in many aspect for some things big to happen. And if you are in the right place at the right time and ready, you will be there to reap large benefits”.

Of course those benefits may be different things to different people. But what is clear if you are not there you will reap absolutely no thing but the same old thing. And the same old thing can get really old, you can start to tolerate what’s intolerable, suffer in silence, get smaller, shrinking down and expectations narrow and then you are stuck miserable, bored and not filled.

Not even knowing why or worse how you got there…

And even worse, how to get yourself out of it.

So while looking into my little garden courtyard, I saw my 1st butterfly of the season. It was beautiful sort of a yellowed lime or a limed yellow color almost translucent. I found myself smiling and wow I get to see some before I leave. And then I stepped out into the garden and though it was high noon fed my plants, watering the ground, being soothe by the act though my thoughts were grumbling over some of the plants still not in the ground and other bulbs I will not get in the ground when it hit me, a missing link of my “Bringing it on Home” project I want to implement once I get there. It was part of a proposal that was not accepted a year and a half ago when I thought I was going elsewhere.

But here was a golden opportunity to bring this vision into fruition! And what a better place then New Orleans with its transformation in action now to do this! If that butterfly had not graced my garden on a Sun Sun Monday I might not have stepped outside to water and subsequently gotten the idea.

Of course I am not attributing anything mystical to this. My mind was relaxed, clear and comforted which allowed my creative juices to flow and with it the vision came & the idea resurfaced with a plan.

So now what do wigs have to do with all of this?

Whenever I am ready for a change, I get the urge to cut my hair. Some women will identify with this. I’ve worn a curly blond fro for almost a decade and now I am bored, not knowing what I wanted to do as I am not prolific with hair. I knew I wanted to change the color, wasn’t sure what style when I decided to look up wigs which can evoke a different mood experimenting with different looks without a permanent investment. So I found three. One is reminiscent of a period of Erykah Badu’s many looks or a 1970’s earlier Pam Grier style.

Yet another of an earlier Phyllis Yvonne Stickney, an actress and comedian I admire. Sharp clean and distinctive and one of a style I enjoyed on Gabrielle Union. Understand, I am not a 59 year old woman looking to be 16 who is aspiring to look 25 (years old). I am not going to lose me, but a fresher transformed me is where I want to be.

So among a lot of smaller but weird things that occurred today, these were the thing that swung my day’s rhythms. I never got to my "to do list" for a Sun Sun Monday, but that’s ok because what needed to be done was indeed done.

How cool is that? ©09

Textural RhythmsExhibition in New York

Congratulations Carolyn & artists!

You will continue to rock...

http://www.folkartmuseum.org/default.asp?id=2377