TB:
This has been on Facebook for awhile but I just watched it. It is so clear and up close. He is lit from within with love. The children see it and respond to it.
He truly belonged to the people of this world. I am sure he knew that.
But, did he ever truly belong to himself?
TD:
Absolutely beautiful
Thankyou
XO
SO:
Wow! That was wonderful. Seeing him interact with the children is just amazing. He has this way of touching - it's a healing touch, he's giving all of his love. Just think of all the children he gave that warmth to. I think of the orphanages he visited and the sick children that probably rarely received any human contact, loving touch. He knew that and he gave it. What an angel, what purity
FB:
~SIGH~
~TEARS~
Thank you for sharing.
CK:
Michael Jackson In Moscow Highlights / Peter Pan
Beautiful, indeed.
How shy his eyes were on that day.
I watched another video while I was on YT that had interviews with people who were there that day as kids - one guy said they were told not to touch MJ while he was there - but he did, he said he was unable to stop himself - MJ sat down to sign a paper for him and he knelt next to him, and was so drawn to him that he kissed him on the cheek. Couldn't stop himself. Others spoke about how much of a kid MJ was himself. It always awes me when MJ crosses over so many language and cultural barriers and is simply recognized as the unusual person he was on an energy level. No words needed, really.
Thank you for sharing another one of so many touching, inexplicable, mysterious, MJ moments.
Did he belong to himself?
It feels to me so often that he simply gave himself so totally away --- to the extent that he knew there really was no turning back.
Though he clung to some intense and very important realities they were tiny compared to the impact of his gift to the world and his "footprint" within it.
The art owned him, body and soul. Not vice versa.
This is also kinda why the Peter Pan film wouldn't work out.
Dunno if I can express this and make sense...
Spielberg in his particular approach (in "Hook") was trying to connect or bridge reality into fantasy (modern-day lawyer to fictional iconic character) so that we viewers who are unfortunately and supposedly rooted in reality could 1) start to relate 2) connect with our own personal childhood fantasy a la Peter Pan, and 3) allow that fantastical part of us to carry us into the less real-part of the story, surrender to it and go with it. It's a reasonable, directorial-rational approach.
However -- Michael Jackson in the lead role, simply existing in the moment as himself... is ALREADY personally waaaay closer to the fantastical, illusional, magical end of the story - his energy did not have a footprint in normalcy ever - so attempting to start him out in the modern-day reality part of the transition was already wrong.
Like trying to squash Charles Dickens' vibrant, luminous and larger-than-life Spirit of Christmas Present into the body and business suit of Bob Cratchit and putting him to work in Scrooge's firm...
Nuh-uh.
Ain't gonna fly (pun intended).
MJ would know that instinctively.
IMO -The only approach that MJ could have worked with as Peter Pan would dive right into the fantasy from the start and somehow have to work back slowly towards some connection with reality that a mere mortal viewer could walk out with - because we'd all want to stay in the fantasy with MJ/Peter anyway. We'd encounter reality again at some point - he'd deliver us there in some form but not really be part of it... but we'd never - ever - ever - forget the place he'd taken us, and the twinkle in his eye as he sucked us in would also stay in our souls. Like the shooting star in Moonwalker.
This is Michael's audacious magic.
SO:
CK, I think you're right. Kids were drawn to him because he was so kind and charming at the same time. Plus, he gave them attention. In the video, I love the part where he is looking into the eyes of the boy and holding his hands. It's like he's saying "I SEE you, you are important." It was a very purposeful interaction.
It is amazing how he was loved universally. Audacious magic - I love it. TB is right, this should be on a blog
CK:
CK:
Hee hee sorry guys - I probably shouldn't be allowed near my computer when I stay up late coz I do babble, huh...
Did any of that make any sense?
(Put the woman on a blog where she can confoose thousands instead of just us ten... LOL)
Anyway - I think it went way beyond kind and charming with MJ and kids, I think they recognized his soul and his connection to source immediately...
He never left that place... So many others saw it too and spoke about it but the children are more connected to divinity until society gets to 'em.
Like Oprah mentioned last year and LMP agreed: when MJ turned his light on her it was quite an experience. He unnerved most people but not the kids.
SO:
Yes, I agree it goes beyond kind & charming - that is probably what first draws people and then they feel a spiritual connection.
CK:
Gosh I would have loved to have known him.
He certainly tops my short list of "wish I had known xxxx"...
