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“JOY HEALS” Michael Jackson…Reflections and Tributes

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MY TRIBUTE POEM

Let justice be

A King to see,

As global stages shareheart

Love’s unconditional care.

Once again ovation rings out

To silence prejudice and doubt.

Instead, rejoice with love’s caress

No lies or greed to put to rest

The millions who know

Present, Past and Future.

The legacy shall grow,

And, gone will be the blindness of the soul.

FOR THOSE OF US WHO KNOW HIM WILL ALWAYS BE IN LOVE. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKkNJpI7OWk

At age 21, Michael Jackson wrote his manifesto:  MJ will be my name. I want to be a whole new character, a whole new look.  I should be a totally different person.  People should never think of me as the kid who sang “ABC” or “I Want You Back”.  I should be a new, incredible actor/singer/dancer that will shock the world.  I will do no interviews.  I will be magic.  I will be a perfectionist, a researcher, a trainer, a master.  I will be better than every great actor roped into one.  I will study and look back on the whole world of entertainment and perfect it, take it steps further from where the greats left off.shy two

“It’s unusual for young artists, musicians, actors today to dream about how big a star they want to become, but for someone to write it down at age 21 and actually EXECUTE it almost to the “T” is remarkable.  He set his goals, and he did exactly what he said, on the back of a piece of paper.”  Hamilen…Producer…60 Minutes May,2013

     It has been my great good fortune and unending joy to have been given the gift of Michael Jackson.  During the past five years, I have delved into Michael’s creative visions and tireless work which manifested themselves into a massive catalog of stunning music.  I have spent more hours than I can count listening to the layers of music, the sounds the ear had never heard before, the legendary beatboxing and background vocals.  I have been touched by lyrics and moved to become involved in many charities.  I have enjoyed spectacular performances, watching each countless times, being transported by magic.  I have “followed” Michael all over the world as he continued his chosen path, to heal the world through music and love.  I have begun a library which now includes all of Michael’s CDs, all DVD performances and short films available, documentaries, books, periodicals and more.  I have transcribed every speech I have  found, poured over articles and books and written hundreds of pages of notes.  I have prepared  more than 60 complete Artist’s Dates to share with my husband and friends.royal brunei

That brings me to the present.  I am now on Facebook. My intent has been to connect with MJ Worldwide Families.  And…TO PAY MICHAEL FORWARD through my blog, MICHAELJACKSONCHOSENVOICES.COM. Yet again, I have been given an incredible gift.  Through the connection to Michael, I have “met” many kindred spirits.  Michael’s love blankets this entire planet and I am so very fortunate and honored to be wrapped up in it. I am connected with knowledgeable people…the Justice Projects and Facebook Friends are PAYING MICHAEL FORWARD each and every day and I am the recipient of all of their love.black history month

I decided to write today’s blog  with the intention of sharing some of the TRIBUTES I have found while reading Facebook.  Although anyone can look these up as I have, I see an advantage in having a collection of thoughts together.  I guess I should say that this is just a sampling of Michael Jackson Tributes.  But, these are special because they are the first I have received from my new  MJ Family and that makes me feel their love even more.  And so, here are tributes to honor Michael Jackson and his legacy.angel two

ONE VOICE

ONE HEART

ONE LOVE

HONORING MICHAEL JACKSON ONE ROSE AT A TIME

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Dear Michael,

The more I get to know you, the more I love you and you truly remain the most beautiful heart and soul of any man.  Your voice is angelic and truly God-given!  You were abundantly blessed in so many ways and you blessed us in turn with your voice and talent.

But, more than that, we know you not just as the greatest entertainer of all time, but love you as a man; as a human being.  Outside of doing the best we possibly can to educate and teach people about you, Michael, about the loving, giving, caring and kind man we love…IT’S A CASE OF LETTING THE REST OF THE WORLD CATCH UP WITH US…not to let slip and sacrificing your beautiful message of love and doing the best to heal the world.smile

Thank you for everything and everyone that you have brought into my life as family and friends.  Michael, you’re so very special and precious to all of us on a worldwide basis.  You had such strength, courage and dignity for what you were made to endure and that is a true inspiration by which we can build on and be in our own lives…including to be strong for one another.  You know the love of your fans and treated them as your family truly, too.prince charming

Almost 8,000 roses for you already to be laid at Forest Lawn this year and I believe you can somehow see and know about them…that you see and know about the love for you here.

Sue Jackson and all the Fans worldwide

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THERE’S SUPERSTAR FRENZY AND THEN THERE’S MICHAEL JACKSON FRENZY

“Some people, including Michael Jackson himself, called him shy.  I would call him observant.  When you’re observant and listening and taking things in you are not talking as much…so people think that you’re shy when actually you are observing, learning and selecting the optimum time to speak.  Michael’s conversation was not about stating his philosophies, but more about stating observations and how these observations could make me think and feel.  I would say that Michael Jackson had a unique one-of-a-kind intellectual curiosity…he was curious about EVERYTHING.”  Biggy Small

MY FANS ARE ACTIVISTS…THEY WILL FIGHT TO DEFEND ME.will you be there

MICHAEL JACKSON

Rest in Peace, my dear Michael,

God wanted one of his angels back, I know it’s better on the other side.  I  can’t stop crying because of this huge pain in my heart, but I know you will be with me always.  The loss has been and still devastating and my heart is absolutely shattered, but Michael will live in our hearts, in our minds, in our souls…NO ONE CAN EVER REPLACE HIM.  His extraordinary talent and magnificently beautiful spirit never dies.  Michael lives through us and in his music forever.  Thank you, Michael for everything you’ve done.  You brought such joy and happiness to my life and I am endlessly grateful for that.  You taught me how to live and love, you taught me to be a better person.  You gave your all and everything you could.  Now it’s your time to rest.  I once promised that I will stand by you for the very last day of my life  and I will, Michael.  Even though you’re not with us anymore, I will keep fighting for you and will believe in you.  I love you and miss you dearly.  Goodbye and see you on the other side.ijcsly

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“I’ve said all along that this court case should not be happening and that nothing good would come of it.  When I watched the video yesterday of that interview and the dreadful things he was saying about Michael, I felt physically sick.  There is so much more I could say about both of these, but I’ll leave it at that.  What I do want to say is that I believe in you, Michael, absolutely and I love you.itc

Michael spent a third of a billion dollars on helping children, paying for surgeries, building hospital wings, orphanages, a burn center and on and on and on.  The good things he did he would never talk about them.  You’d always have to hear it from people around him because Michael always thought if you did a charitable act and then you talked about it, that it negated all of that.  I asked him, Michael, how can you do that? How can you spend the time with children who are dying and then go from that on stage and give that kind of performance?’  He said, ‘ How could I not? If these children want to see me.  I know I’m not important, but Michael Jackson the superstar is…and, if I can make a child live an extra minute or hour or month, then wouldn’t that HTW THREEbe worth it?’ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1SlNXYFH6g

Michael was always that way.  If he would get a call from somebody and a child was dying, he would get on a plane and go and he would tell them, ‘I’m going to be back in two weeks to see you…and, a lot of times he extended little kids’ lives that way.  It gave them something to look forward to down the line. You have to admire something like that.hospital

Michael told me ‘We’re all put on earth to do something.  He said I was put here to help children.’  Which from the time I met him, he was 29, that was what his life was all about.  It was that way all the way up to the time he died.  Michael had incredible empathy, especially for children that were injured or sick or neglected.  There were people that were hungry and homeless and that was always in the front of his mind his whole life.  And then to be accused of something so horrific…it just stopped him in his tracks…and then when it happened 10 years later…the man was devastated, absolutely devastated.

David Nordahl

Painter and Friend

MICHAEL JACKSON WAS AND IS AN INTERNATIONAL ICON.  HE MADE MAGIC THROUGH HIS MUSIC AND HIS CREATIVITY…THROUGH HIS GENEROSITY AND HIS SHOWMANSHIP.  LEGIONS HAVE LOVED MICHAEL THROUGH EVERY TWIST AND TURN.  WE APPLAUD THE BODY OF WORK WHICH CONSISTENTLY OFFERED US AS EXQUISITELY PRESENTED GIFTS.  WE HONOR THE LIFE, THE CONTRIBUTIONS, THE JOY.  Ebony Magazine 2009come

I have decided that this topic needs more than one blog to really touch the surface of all that has been said and written.  But, I want to end this first edition with words from the JUSTICE PROJECTS:  IT’S OUR ROLE TO MAKE SURE THAT EVEN IN DEATH, YOU KEEP GETTING UP.  YOUR MUSIC AND YOUR LEGACY WILL NEVER DIE.  OUR GOAL IS NOT ONLY FIGHTING FOR JUSTICE FOR MICHAEL JACKSON, BUT ALSO TO CELEBRATE AND PROTECT HIS LEGACY. 

Jude

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NOURISH

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Foreward by Michael Jackson Pigtails and Frogs Legs 

Family Cookbook from Neiman Marcus1993

“To a child, food is something special.  It isn’t just a delicious taste or the vitamins that build a healthy body.  Food is love and caring, security and hope…all the things that a good family can provide.  Remember when you were little and your mother made a pie for you?  When she cut a slice and put it on your plate, she was giving you a bit of herself, in the form of her love.  She made you feel safe and wanted.  She made your hunger go away, and when you were full and satisfied, everything seemed all right.  Because that satisfied feeling was in the pie, you were nourished from a deep level.  Food is something we all need physically, but so is the love, the deeper nourishment, that turns us into who we are. Think about how necessary it is to nourish a child with a bit of yourself when you use this book.  It is full of delicious things.  Every recipe has an extra ingredient of caring, because the people who wrote them were thinking of the children.  They were especially thinking of those who aren’t able to take nourishment for granted because they are poor, sick or disabled.  These are the children who need food to heal.  The theme of ‘Heal the World,’ which has been close to my heart, is the central theme of this book, also.  Here are recipes for the spirit.  Please make them with that in mind.  Your child is a growing spirit that can be knit strong with love.  When you break an egg and measure a cup of flour, you are magically mixing the gift of life.  The food’s proteins and minerals will turn into bones and muscles, but your feeling as you cook will turn directly into a soul.miracle It makes me happy to think that the needs of children’s spirits are at last becoming important in this world.  Children have no power to end wars directly or to mend age-old differences.  All they can do is be themselves, to shine with gratitude and joy when love is turned their way.  Yet isn’t that ultimately the greatest power?  In the eyes of a child you become the source of joy, which lifts you into the special category of caregiver and life-provider.  You may think that your apple pie has only sugar and spice in it.  A child is wiser…with the first bite, he knows that this special dish is the essence of your love.  Enjoy!”  Michael Jackson Heal the World Foundationchildren again

“FRIENDS, THE FOUNDATION OF ALL HUMAN KNOWLEDGE, THE BEGINNING OF HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS MUST BE THAT EACH AND EVERY ONE OF US IS AN OBJECT OF LOVE.  BEFORE YOU KNOW IT, BEFORE YOU KNOW IF YOU HAVE RED HAIR OR BROWN…BEFORE YOU KNOW IF YOU ARE BLACK OR WHITE…BEFORE YOU KNOW WHAT RELIGION YOU ARE A PART OF…YOU HAVE TO KNOW THAT YOU ARE LOVED.” Taken from Oxford Address Heal the Kid  Michael Jackson 2001toys 2

     As a very small child, my memories of visiting Grandma’s house always placed her cucina center stage.  The house was tiny and sat on a parcel of land made up entirely of gardens and orchards. A small shed on the back of the property was home to a cow, some chlckens and, every once in awhile, a cat or dog having a thinking time.  Running along side the house were cold frames where young plants, started in the house, were hardened off for planting in the earth.  This small property produced food for La Cucina e Nonna that lasted the entire year. The kitchen itself was small by today’s standards.  There were windows on two walls that provided ledges for the many olive oil tins turned planters for tomato and pepper seeds.  How precious were the seeds which Grandma had carefully hidden in her pockets while making the voyage from the old country…a nineteen-year-old new bride. Dominating the kitchen space was a blue and white porcelain-finished wood range with six burners, two bottom ovens and two warming ovens atop.  A small sink and a couple of cupboards, a refrigerator and several chairs occupied the other wall spaces.  In the center of the room was a white porcelain table that could be opened up to seat many.  That table was used for taking meals, making bread, rolling pasta dough and cleaning all the wild berries and mushrooms gathered from the woods nearby.  Because the kitchen was small, the adjacent bedrooms were used for food storage.  The bedroom immediately off the kitchen was called the BOYS’ BEDROOM.  It had wooden rafters above the bed which were used to cure homemade sausages.  In the daytime, the beds held wooden boards covered with drying pastas. And the smells…freshly baked loaves of bread cooling on every available kitchen surface.  As far as the eye could see, I remember seeing pastas drying and breads cooling. However swiftly moving are memories, my memory of La Cucina e Nonna always glistens in sunshine.  It had to have been in darkness at night and wrapped in cloudy days, but, I only remember sunshine and the aromas of the best foods I have ever tasted.  From La Cucina e Nonna I received the passion for food and adunata…gathering. I wrote that years before my journey with Michael Jackson’s legacy…before I read and transcribed Michael’s words…before I really thought about the love I felt in Grandma’s kitchen…and, before I gave a great deal of thought to the idea of how the love given helped to create who I am.  And, something else comes to my mind.  When Paris Jackson was interviewed she talked about her father’s cooking.  She particularly recalled her father’s waffles being THE BEST IN THE WORLD.  Michael believed meal time was family time and gave it a high priority. There is security and hope in that.  I am strengthened and I smile.  I thank God that Michael’s children have beautiful memories and  nourishing experiences that help to make them who they are…growing spirits.to be To me,  it is one thing to believe in something, it’s quite another to put those beliefs into daily practice…walking the talk.  Michael’s journey inspires me each and every day for I am constantly reminded of his gift for being able to live out what he valued on a world stage.  That bravery gives me hope.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX66ZZSRerc

CHILDREN SHOW ME IN THEIR PLAYFUL SMILES THE DIVINE IN EVERYONE.  THIS SIMPLE GOODNESS SHINES STRAIGHT FROM THEIR HEARTS.  THIS HAS SO MUCH TO TEACH.  IF A CHILD WANTS CHOCOLATE ICE CREAM, HE JUST ASKS FOR IT.  ADULTS GET TANGLED UP IN COMPLICATIONS OVER WHETHER TO EAT THE ICE CREAM OR NOT.  A CHILD SIMPLY ENJOYS.”  MICHAEL JACKSON DANCING THE DREAMparrot

     Go out and have some ice cream today and enjoy nourishing the child in you.  Remember…IT’S ALL ABOUT THE LOVE. Jude HIStory MYstory OURstory