I wrote this post over a year ago, inspired by this song, but I didn’t hit the publish button. Today, I am still very sad that the world lost David Bowie. The salvation of an artist is that as death takes all away, it gives more power to the art than possible to imagine in an artist’s lifetime, the work has it’s own life. Fame and riches disappear, but the work is to create, which David Bowie did by expressing his individual self in his own cocktail of perfectly complicated and rich, soul-shaking music that gives me a high each time I listen.  I meditate today on a life well lived. I know that the breaking feeling is love for what he has done and also a yearning to express as strongly and poetically as he did.  He paved the way for all of us to be as wild and kookie as we want to be.

Written on May, 2014

On Sunday, we celebrated Isaiah’s 5th Birthday.  The Birthday magic was in the air, even though he did’t want to dress up or brush his hair.  Together, we whipped the cream for his cake and decorated it with a blueberry number “5”, while listening to David Bowie filling our hearts with love.

His happiness was the happiness that you can only feel on your fifth Birthday. Free of any concern of who is going to come to the party or what he is going to wear.  Free of any insecurity or fear. Just free.

Suddenly, I noticed a change in his movements, he moved like a real boy and not the toddler he was the day before.  I felt like Geppetto when seeing Pinochio move for the first time. He was changing like all of us, but in a child, the pronounced changes jerked me to the fear that this beautiful childhood will come inevitably to an end, and like all of us, he will have to endure the world.

He wiped his first booger on me, while cracking up at his originality.  He hid under the bed and stayed quiet, waiting for the right moment to jump out and scare me for the first time.  Usually I can hear him laughing from the next room, but he finally worked it out.

David Bowie was adding to our magic morning.

He was singing:

“Just remember lovers never loose, because they are free of thoughts unpure and of thoughts unkind. Gentleness clears the soul.  Love cleans the mind and makes it free.”

And if that wasn’t enough:

“Fear is just in your head, so forget your head and you’ll be free.”

Thank you David Bowie!

Rest in Peace and send us some.

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