The Love and Genius Of Michael Jackson

Dear Readers,

The day Michael Jackson died - I wrote a response which posted on my other blog - today I watched this incredible memorial to him - I still have so many mixed emotions and find it tragic that he either did not get the help he needed when he was alive or he refused it. This is assuming of course that he died from the effects of drugs on his body. I am sure if he were alive now he would say - "Throw away all the pills, the drugs, the mask - a lost childhood is no excuse to die and to leave three children without a father - I wish I could start over" Maybe it is some consolation that even though Michael Jackson is no longer on this earth -his love and genius will be with us forever. But why Michael, why?



HERE IS A REPRINTING OF THE BLOG
FROM THE DAY MICHAEL JACKSON DIED


Living in the Los Angeles - Hollywood area, yesterday will loom in my mind for a very long time. I had just finished a consultation for a client when I turned on the television to find out what people were saying about Farrah Fawcett and her tragic and untimely death.

I thought I heard an announcer on CNN say something about Michael Jackson's father and cardiac arrest. I naturally assumed the Jackson father had a heart attack. Then as I took time to listen more carefully - I realized the news was about Michael Jackson himself.

At that moment I knew he had died. I could hear the helicopters whirling in the sky traveling toward the area of Westwood and Bel Air. I watched countless police officers on television put up yellow tape all around the UCLA hospital. I switched to the local channels knowing they would know sooner than anyone what was going on. Then the confirmed announcement -Michael Jackson was dead. Then like people all over Los Angeles - I cried. Here, now dead at fifty, was this brilliant star. A life begun as a little boy genius now dead as a grown man ... damaged by a traumatic childhood - I do believe Michael Jackson never really recovered from the childhood scars and in the end was destroyed by his painful past.

At least this is how I see it. But I also see that stars are energy and energy can never really be destroyed - and neither can the incredible genius of Michael Jackson's music from boyhood to manhood. Even though the harmony he brought to the world was the same harmony he could never seem to bring into his own life.

In retrospect, I hope the message of Michael's death will be how important it is to treasure each moment of a child's life. How important it is to support and protect a child's creativity. How important it is at any age to intervene when choices to escape pain lead to the abuses of a lifestyle which can only end in the tragedy of confusion and death.

I might go over to Hollywood this weekend to photograph these moments in history as people go to the star on the sidewalk to touch a remembrance of the energy, the harmony, and the genius of Michael Jackson.

Surely the SERAPHIM, the angels of music, and Archangel Michael (his namesake) have taken him to heaven to meet his God, where at last he will have the clarity, balance, and love he always searched for. May he enjoy peace in the "other world" as he gave so much enjoyment to us in this world.

If you would like to share your thoughts and feelings, you can write to me at amber@ambersilvestar.com

With light and love,
Amber Silverstar

The above digital art design by Amber Silverstar is called STAR LOVE AND GENIUS and is dedicated to Michael Jackson - all rights reserved 2009