Josie

[the mingo]

Josie, I never forgot you - you never made it to your 30th year and now I am twice that plus change - this song here fits you and the whole thing between us to a T and it's right that I remember you this day for another 4th of July weekend all those decades ago in San Francisco - you took a heart in your hands at great cost to yourself that had been burned & twisted by unspeakable atrocity & war - some of that atrocity was my own - and helped it begin it's journey back to humanity & manhood - not even the headdoc's at the VA could do that - you made me touch it, you made me face it, you made me talk of it & you made me tell you and you made yourself still and listened to all the seething dark inside of me - then you held me with all of yourself again & again & again -

I never forgot that and I'll never forget you until my bones are dust - it's the 4th of July, Josie & the hole in my heart left by your passing so long ago is filled to overflowing -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOJTCBtRllQ

[WIREMAN]

Your words ring in my ears, lost a best friend, Robert on the 200th Independence Day.....he will always be young to those who can remember back those 38 years....like this write mucho mingo

[the mingo]

Thx Wireman - good words always the best - rain outside keeping me in - drinkin coffee - listening to a little Marvin Gaye - mercy mercy me/ a memory here a memory there but staying in the ongoing - new trails beckon - new road calls - even this today, shut to the inside for the moment - you come to the end of mourning for some things - other things take longer - gonna walk along with Mr. Gaye awhile -

[WIREMAN]

I used to put on Marvin before I'd perform as inspiration, the man could sing!

[the mingo]

i hear that - i ain't listened to him since when but i heard mention of him the other day and pulled up some songs off youtube - forgot how the guy could place you on the mountain top or in the valley and you'd be smiling in either place & in either case -

[goldenmyst]

Your memories told through these words sing to my heart. I love how you remembered this woman who resuscitated you. I felt this tribute deep in my soul.

John

[the mingo]

Thx John - she didn't do it all in the few days I knew her but from the vantage of my days now she did the most important part, the beginning - she began what others have lent their hand to since even without realizing what they were doing - without her, and everyone else over the years, I would be in a mental hospital, prison, or dead. Thx for reading - wherever you are may friends appear out of nowhere at need.

[creativesoul]

i was in a park where they celebrate tht AMERICAN thing- fireworks- and selling my paintings- a woman that was in the booth accross from me- bought a painting- she said' my freind died of a firework on the 4th- and this painting speaks to me'
'IT GIVES ME PEACE'
this was chicken skin
and so beautiful
imagine the sweetness of that peace

[the mingo]

Thx cs