An Untimely Goodbye

At the time I write this it's probably not even been a full 5 days since Michael Peloso, a fellow musician, composer, and producer passed on at the tender age of 53. I saw it posted that this took place the night of April 19th. It's not even night time yet as I write this so...less than a full 5 days since the presence of a beautiful person departed this world.

It is unbelievably sad to have to say goodbye to someone so kind-hearted and far too young to have been taken from this world.

It's taken me this many days to find the inner space to be able to write something.

He'd just released a song a few days before, and I'm glad for him that he got to be here to see that through and to enjoy that completion. On the 15th, he posted on FB that they'd been picked up in two more markets: Madrid and Toranto. He seemed so thrilled and happy. I'm glad he got to experience that.

Congratulations, Michael and Marisa.

I just wish he could have experienced whatever else will come to be from it and whatever other songs he would have created for the world to hear. Michael was always there for my partner, Phillip Kanakis, and to many others in our music community. He was a good friend to many. It is such a loss that he won't be here anymore for the people who were blessed directly by knowing him, those who loved him, and for whatever good (we would never be able to know of in most cases, I'm sure) that would come of Michael's good, kind energy that radiated from him and touched all in its path, uplifting them in ways we can never know. This was the kind of person Michael was.

Michael was a solace to me, in that I knew he was in our corner. I knew he saw us for the kind of people we are, just we we saw him for the kind of person he was. He was a cornerstone for us, in my mind, in that way. Just knowing he was there brought me a kind of peace one wants so much to have, especially within a world, and an industry where people are not always so nice or fair.

When I saw the title of Michael's new release, "Stolen Moments" I sharply sucked in a breath. Instantly I was taken back to a time years ago when the husband of a neighbor we'd had in my youth was killed in a freak jet-ski accident. He and his wife had been friends with my mom and step-dad and his wife had been very kind to me in my high-school years - a solace for me then. Just after he husband had passed on, she told my mom that she had felt for a while that they'd been living on borrowed time.

Borrowed Time. Kind of seems like stolen moments in concept, doesn't it? I wondered what the lyric of Michael's song was about, and I finally had the nerve to put it on a little while before starting to type this. While it is clear it is a story about two people who've grown apart....at least I suspect that was the real idea behind is...it could easily also be a song being sung by someone who has been left behind by someone who has passed on. WTH? It's a little eerie, in a way. Did a vaster part of him know, as he wrote it, that he'd be leaving in this way soon? I've read he was Natalie Jean's best friend. I had not known that. But my heart goes out to her. I'm so sad about his leaving and I wasn't even a best friend to him like she has been and that he was to her. I can only imagine how heart-broken she is as I swim in my own sadness.

This planet really needs for the kind-hearted people to remain longer here and lose the creeps sooner. Not the other way around.