Electric Word Life

I wrote my previous post to get some thoughts out of my head that have been hanging in there since last night, but by the time I finally got done with my first MSP cooking attempt, it was late and I was tired. But it felt disingenuous to post today without mentioning the death of His Royal Badness.

I wouldn't necessarily say that I am a die hard Prince fan, nor would those close to me think that his death would mean much to me one way or another. It's interesting though, the cloud that seems to be over MSP today. I feel like everyone feels it. The whole office was listening to The Current today, as they were streaming his albums chronologically, and I was amazed at how each song came on I would think, "Oh, I love that song!" As an artist, he has made such an impact: such attitude, confidence and style.

They say that he was found in an elevator, CPR was attempted but unsuccessful. Knowing this, I couldn't bear to title this blog post "Are We Gonna Let the Elevator Bring Us Down" because that might be a little tacky. However, seemingly cliche under the circumstances or not, one of my favorite Prince songs is "Let's Go Crazy" A fun song that we performed in high school show choir. I still remember some of the moves 15+ years later. I thought, "What on Earth is this about a purple banana?"

Insert deep sigh here. This past year sure has been a tough one and I'm really down and thankful that I am current on my crazy pills. I have trivia tonight and as much as I want to curl up on the couch, I think it's important to be with people right now.

My favorite tribute so far:

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"Compassion is an action word with no boundaries."-Prince