{"id":117,"date":"2009-06-25T23:04:57","date_gmt":"2009-06-25T23:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/yourcharmedlife\/2009\/06\/losing-michael-and-farrah-and-controlgaining-acceptance-and-faith-and-appreciation.html"},"modified":"2009-06-25T23:04:57","modified_gmt":"2009-06-25T23:04:57","slug":"losing-michael-and-farrah-and-controlgaining-acceptance-and-faith-and-appreciation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/yourcharmedlife\/2009\/06\/losing-michael-and-farrah-and-controlgaining-acceptance-and-faith-and-appreciation.html","title":{"rendered":"Losing Michael and Farrah and Control&#8230;Gaining Acceptance and Faith and Appreciation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Late again. I feel like the Night Blogger of South Harlem.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I guess the keynote I&#8217;m sensing right now is the fragility of life. We lost Ed McMahon, and Farrah Faucett lost her battle to cancer. Michael Jackson died with no warning at all. And I visited Aspen who&#8217;s swollen from lymphoma and breathing hard until the medicine shrinks the tumor a bit. The doctor said she had a few weeks of good life left, but I&#8217;m thinking days.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>New Yorkers are gathered in Times Square to say goodbye to the King of Pop. I&#8217;d be there if I weren&#8217;t exhausted from a fully packed day. I love how New Yorkers know where to go for any given situation: Union Square for one kind of protest, the UN for another; Central Park to remember John Lennon, Times Square to remember Michael. It&#8217;s not announced really. People just know.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And I know that this is a time to keep things simple. I&#8217;m working a lot because I recently birthed two books, but today I left it all in the middle of the afternoon to go the gym and sweat. And I left it again at 6:30 to meet with my monthly Manifestation Group. It&#8217;s not <span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic\">my<\/span>\u00a0group, but rather a group I&#8217;m a part of. Everyone is so positive and focused and visionary that it&#8217;s not possible to go there and feel much doubt. I sat through the meeting in that lovely mystery space between what I can do what I can&#8217;t. I can envision what I want and take action to bring that about, but I can&#8217;t save Aspen. It reminds me of something told to me by a woman who had had a bona fide mystical experience, a true vision of the What&#8217;s Real. &#8220;I learned,&#8221; she said, &#8220;that we are dust and we are divine. And there&#8217;s a place in consciousness where that&#8217;s not even a contradiction.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic\">Victoria&#8217;s class, &#8220;Living with Heart and Soul,&#8221; a program for creating a spiritual life that works in practical life, takes place Friday, June 26, at 7 pm at the New York Open Center: www.theopencenter.org.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late again. I feel like the Night Blogger of South Harlem.\u00a0 I guess the keynote I&#8217;m sensing right now is the fragility of life. We lost Ed McMahon, and Farrah Faucett lost her battle to cancer. Michael Jackson died with no warning at all. 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