oh em jay

When I heard the news this evening that MJ had died earlier today, along with Farrah Fawcett, I was truly just confused. Naturally, I was traveling and my phone was dead so there was no way to confirm the information. I suppose it's true what they say about bad things happening in threes what with the death of Ed McMahon earlier this week. Neither of the other two celebrity passings comes as much of a surprise, but his epic sound, his moves and his Neverland mansion only added to the illusion that you would live forever. Now we only have the songs, which is more than any other pop artist will ever contribute. He died doing what he loved, soul sweating for what would have surely been a stellar tour, even at the age of 50.

Well before his death, he prophetically summed up his own life: “If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.”