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Today I wanted to write on something truly meaningful. My favorite singer-song writer of all time, david bailey (not a typo – his name is spelled in lower case) passed away last month and I was thinking about him and his music this morning. He was a 14 year brain tumor survivor and wrote songs about life, hope and love. Right up my alley; and that’s what I wanted to write about today.
But instead, this headline pops up: “Fast Food Stories Consume the Web”. It’s an article about Mc Ribs and Mc Toys: once again our throwaway, instant gratification, consumerist lifestyles steal the top news of the day.
Life doesn’t always give us what we think we should have. I wanted roses and lollipops and instead I got barbeque sauce. But you do the best with what you have been given. david was given a death sentence but he chose to share his fear and his pain with us by writing songs and singing about it. One of his first albums has a picture of him sitting with his back to us and in the clouds there is a superimposed outline of his head and face. All these years I have thought of the album cover as being a metaphor of david having his head in the clouds. But now I know – it was a premonition of him watching over all of us from a new vantage point.
Thank you, david, for your music and your inspiration. Rest in peace.
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