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My Credo, Whatever you do, Do with Integrity, Wherever you go, Go as a Leader, Whomever you serve, Serve with Caring, Whenever you dream, Dream with your All and Never, ever Give up.
| MJ is the ELVIS of our generation... I remember when I found out that Elvis died. I was at some sort of nighttime function at school. It was dark. I was waiting alone outside for what felt like forever waiting for my mom to pick me up in our Pinto Station Wagon. When my mom finally pulled up, she said to me, "Guess who died?". I ran through a list of people I knew that were old or sick but could not imagine any of them dead. She must of seen the confusion in my eyes, because she blurted out "Elvis", as she turned on the blinker and drove away into the night.
I looked at her and noticed a small tear running down her cheek. I felt bad for her but had no feelings toward "Elvis". I just sat there quiet as we drove home. Elvis was famous, known and an icon. I think that she even went and saw him dance/sing in Vegas the year before. When we got home, the family sat in front of the TV and watched the tribute to the king.
I will always remember that day and the tear on my mom's cheek.
Today, I was sitting in a meeting, one of several that I sat through and my phone vibrated for my attention. A single simple message flashed across it. "MJ dead. WOW! You OK?"
I sat through the meeting, walked the guests out and came back to my office and shut the door. I brought up CNN.com and saw what happened. I looked for signs of reason. Drugs, Suicide, Killed by a fan, anything. Nothing. I went to my next meeting.
Around 5, I headed to the park to meet the family for a quick picnic. I had 1 hour before the next meeting. Walking through the park, my phone vibrated. I reached for it and it was my brother.
"Where are you?"
-Ashland
"I'm in Portland and people are crying"
- Remember when I took you to that concert?
(I took him to a Jackson 5 Victory concert at Dodger Stadium in '84. We danced the entire concert and I felt for the first time the feeling of being high! (No drugs were involved) I will never forget the brothers stomping down the steps in unison, removing their sunglasses and singing out in perfect harmony, "You want to be starting something?" - I still have my now way too small concert tshirt)
"yeah"
"aren't you close in age?"
"how's your heart?"
- Only hurts when I'm working.
"I love you, bro."
- I know ;)
- I love you too...
and in that second I remembered all the songs, dancing, joy, glove, monkeys, awards, records, cd's, music videos, technology, oprah and beatboxing that was Michael Jackson to me.
And a single tear fell down my cheek.
youtube.com has a great collection of his videos.
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| | Remember eBay? I purchased my first ebay purchase in a long time (years) the other day. I bought comic books. I was so excited. I found what I wanted. Ordered it, paid for it and the seller shipped it and sent me tracking info. Perfect. But when I got it, I was shocked how destroyed the package was. The seller did a good job trying to over pack it with cardboard to protect the comics, but I don't think you can plan on countering USPS destroying the edges of the package.
Click here to see photos - I put them on my facebook account but you should be able to see them. |
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